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Feb 2026 – Current
General Partner — Self-Attention Ventures
Since September, full time; before that, part time. Self-Attention Ventures backs enterprise GenAI: development, alignment, evaluation, compliance, and agent infrastructure that moves ARR, investing pre-seed/seed.
Feb 2026 – Current
VP, AI Engineering — Failure Modes AI
Building FailureModes.ai to help enterprises assess, recover, operationalize, and continuously improve agentic AI systems, leading AI engineering across data center agent architecture.
Jul 2022 – Sep 2025
Senior Director, Applied Science - Generative Agentic AI — Microsoft Corporation
Directed a cross-functional engineering and research team embedded inside OpenAI, serving as Microsoft's lead for the strategic MS-OpenAI integration.
Mar 2020 – Aug 2022
Senior Director Engineering - ML and Generative AI in Shopping — Microsoft Corporation
Mar 2013 – Apr 2020
Director, Machine Learning & Engineering - AI & Research — Microsoft Corporation
Sep 2009 – Mar 2013
Product Development Manager - Machine Learning in Monetization & Ads — Microsoft Corporation
Oct 2006 – Oct 2009
Engineering Manager — Microsoft Corporation
Dec 2001 – Oct 2006
Senior Software Development Lead — Microsoft Corporation
Jul 2000 – Jan 2002
Software Development Lead — ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Jan 1999 – Jul 2000
Lead Software Engineer — Vroom Technologies
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