// 00 — DIGITAL BUDDHA
CTO, engineer, leader. Fifteen years in. Still shipping things that matter.
Fifteen years. Engineering at LinkedIn, then leading the team at Wonton Web Works, now CTO at Rivermark Research. The arc bends toward fewer layers, more ownership, and harder problems.
Right now the work lives at the edge of AI and editorial craft. Multi-agent systems, platforms that handle load without broadcasting it, technical decisions that still read like humans made them. The stuff behind the stuff.
Based in Los Angeles. Building carefully.
DIGITAL BUDDHA
Wonton Web Works
Independent consultancy. Architecture, AI integration, and full-stack engineering for the companies that couldn't afford to get it wrong.
Daisy — Technical Advisor / Ex — Acting Founding Engineer
Oct 2023 – Present
Advising the CTO, C-suite, and engineering lead on product direction, implementation, and architecture. Previously the acting founding engineer — delivered a production-ready MVP on AWS Amplify, Next.js, and React with full-stack architecture, CI/CD, and auth in under 90 days. Also contributed to the agent and GPT architecture behind the recommendation layer.
T-Mobile — Technical Architect, Digital Payments
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Led the AEM-based digital payment portal program — ~$15B/yr in payment flows, two Scrum teams, 15 people across onshore and offshore.
Fanatics — Senior Full Stack Engineer
Sept 2025 – Present
React and Next.js on the frontend team. Design reviews, code reviews, paired sessions with the engineers on the ground.
HP — Technical Architect
Dec 2025 – Feb 2026
Short engagement. NextJS PWA architecture for Adobe Commerce.
Rivermark Research
Co-founded Rivermark Research. Leading engineering on SEED — two patents pending, behavioral intelligence without the surveillance stack.
Owned the CMS architecture behind business.linkedin.com, led the retirement of a decade-old legacy framework, and closed the DECO-to-GraphQL performance gap to sub-10ms parity inside two quarters.
Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager
Sep 2019 – Oct 2023
Owned the CMS behind business.linkedin.com. Closed the DECO-to-GraphQL performance gap to sub-10ms parity inside two quarters; led legacy framework retirement as EM of the Inkwell AEM team; returned as technical lead to architect the next-gen marketing content creation platform.
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2015 – Sep 2019
Horizontal UI engineering across Platform Infrastructure — mobile web Voyager (member profile, early Ember), PLAY! Framework team, BAM AEM, and release engineering. Led Guided Edit to 90%+ test coverage with refactored tooling.
Web Developer
Mar 2014 – Sep 2015
Co-led frontend development on Adobe CQ — the platform behind business.linkedin.com and the talent, marketing, and sales-solutions variants. Designed the content inheritance model and contributed the JSP tag library, Compass/Sass pipeline, and custom CQ dialog widgets.
Associate Web Developer
Jul 2012 – Mar 2014
Built Bacon Grease — a PHP email-templating system that turned out 85+ unique HTML marketing emails in the first two quarters. Also shipped a lightweight PHP framework for landing pages and microsites outside the main Drupal properties.
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