About
Builder, operator, and technology executive
I have spent twenty-five years building engineering teams, shipping products, and leading platform, cloud, and AI transformations, from founding companies to Fortune 500 scale. Today I help CTOs, VPs of engineering, and boards make the decisions that AI has made harder, not easier: who owns the contract for a change, what a team must still understand when a model writes the middle, and how to tell real productivity from license counts.
The through-line is simple: stay close enough to the runtime to make honest decisions, and far enough from the weeds to move the business. That argument is now a book, Skin in the Runtime.
The arc
I started as a founder and hands-on engineer, shipping product, owning infrastructure, and learning what breaks when you are accountable for the whole stack. That foundation never left: even in executive roles I have insisted on skin in the runtime, not leadership from slide decks alone.
At Fortune 500 scale I led platform and delivery organizations through migrations, modernization, and team redesign, work measured in cloud savings, delivery velocity, and whether teams still trusted the path forward. Parallel leadership in high-stakes public-safety environments sharpened decision-making under pressure and stakeholder clarity when the room is tense.
I still build. Side projects and production-shaped labs are how I keep technical judgment calibrated for the advisory and leadership work that matters most.
Outcomes that travel
A few proof points, and the thinking behind them.
$14M
annual cloud savings, zero downtime
Led a multi-cloud to AWS platform migration that returned $14M a year with zero business impact: landing-zone standards, phased cutover, and explicit kill lists.
Read more →16 yrs
public-safety command leadership
Sixteen years as an auxiliary police officer: decision-making under pressure, de-escalation, and command presence without formal authority, now applied to incident rooms and board calls.
Read more →25+ yrs
software, product, and executive leadership
From founding companies and hands-on engineering to Fortune 500 platform leadership. Still shipping, so judgment stays calibrated when the enterprise stakes are high.
Read more →How I work
The book, the insights, and the occasional working session all make the same argument. Pick the door that fits the decision in front of you.
Most of that argument is in the books and the insights. I also take on a small number of advisory and working-session engagements when senior judgment would change the outcome.
I still ship
Hands-on product work keeps judgment honest, from cloud platforms and developer tools to App Store releases.
Shanecode Tools
47+ browser-based developer tools for JSON, YAML, regex, DevOps, and more. Fast, private, and free.
Visit site →ProtoLab
Virtual labs for embedded buses, telephony signaling, and AI fabrics — probe the wire, learn the frame.
Visit site →Fadstack
A visual history of languages, architectures, and frameworks — what stuck, what faded, and which fads burned real money.
Visit site →QuikGit
Modern cloud-native Git hosting with CI/CD, issues, and collaboration built in.
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QuikPBX
Cloud PBX with WebRTC softphone, desk phones, and an AI receptionist.
Visit site →QuikSync
Resilient one-way file copy and sync with FastCDC deltas, autotune, SSH, and QUIC.
Visit site →QuikHash
FastCDC + BLAKE3 content-addressed hasher with manifests, dump, reconstruct, and chunk diff.
Visit site →ModelMove
Sparse-delta, verified transfer and migration of LLM model weights between machines.
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RelaTrack
Enterprise relationship intelligence and network analysis platform.
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21+ Age Check ID Scanner
Fast 2D ID barcode scanner for age verification. Privacy-focused, no data storage.
App Store →
Field Contact Scanner
Scan and manage field contacts for law enforcement and public safety workflows.
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ClipNom
Lightweight clipboard history manager for Mac. In-memory only, privacy-first.
Mac App Store →Start with the book
Skin in the Runtime is the argument in one place, with an artifact at the end of every chapter. Questions, a team reading, or a decision where senior judgment would change the outcome? I would like to hear about it.