
Experienced technology entrepreneur, executive, and software product architect. Proven record of building high-caliber software engineering teams, setting product vision and direction, advancing innovations, delivering fully-productized solutions, and creating just enough agile process to make these efficient and scalable. Hands-on, intuitive technologist equally at home with developers, architects, customers and partners at whatever level of detail is needed. Intimately familiar with the care and feeding of companies from 2 to 200 people strong and what it takes to foster open, collaborative, balanced, and fun environments. Specialties: Robust, scalable applications and platforms for consumers and enterprises; Ajax and rich web technologies, and mobile apps; cloud strategies; high-performance and scalable designs; cloud, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, hosted and packaged delivery models; RESTful APIs and services; software security; open source; standards creation and compliance; buy-vs-build; SmartGrid; product strategy, definition, architecture, and execution; software team building and management; agile development; startup conception, growth, positioning, and development. All opinions are my own: credit is often due to others, but debit and accountability are on me. MFL
chain.link
axway.com
otterize.com
mulesoft.com
siemens.com
accomplice.co
nd.edu
United States
Chief Architect
Chainlink Labs
• www.linkedin.com/company/chainlink-labs
Nov 2023 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Advisor
Chainlink Labs
• www.linkedin.com/company/chainlink-labs
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-founder
Otterize
• www.linkedin.com/company/otterize
Nov 2021 - Jun 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Chief Product Officer
Otterize
• www.linkedin.com/company/otterize
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
CTO
MuleSoft
• www.linkedin.com/company/mulesoft
Apr 2013 - Feb 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Vice President, Nook Cloud
Barnes & Noble
• www.linkedin.com/company/barnes-&-noble
Aug 2011 - Jan 2013
Palo Alto, CA
VP of Engineering
Loyalize
• www.linkedin.com/company/loyalize
Feb 2011 - Aug 2011
San Francisco, CA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Physics, Stanford University
Aug 1993 - Jul 1995
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Aug 1990 - Jul 1993
barnesandnoble.com
noosh.com