Work With Me
Most of my time goes into Q10E Labs, so I take on a few engagements at a time. Here is how we can work together.
Leadership by example, for growing tech companies
Through Thaumogen I take on real responsibility inside your company for a stretch: owning a launch, rebuilding an engineering practice, steadying a team through change. Your managers and engineers grow while we deliver, and the company is less exposed when I step out.
How I work
- Start from what needs to happen, not from the org chart.
- Work with your actual team, timeline and constraints.
- Test the risky part first, then move fast, respecting people throughout.
- Honest calls, on trends like AI and on leadership, when that's the real obstacle.
Typical areas: product and R&D delivery, engineering practices, teams and leadership, and AI adoption. Investors: I also do technical due diligence, including AI claims; ask for the DD checklist.
Bring Q10E programs to the people you work with
If you're a coach, therapist or community leader, the people you work with often need support between sessions. Q10E Labs is building human programs that small groups follow together, in a private app. We're looking for a few early partners to shape them with us. Early days: a business ambition, not a finished offer.
Someone to think with, on your terms
Free and informal, for young adults and early-career professionals: you choose what we talk about, how often and in what form. Teaching was one of the things I did best in academia, and it still shapes how I mentor. I wrote about what a year of this taught me.
Speaking engagements
Topics I can talk about:
- AI in practice: what LLM and agent tooling really changes for engineering teams, where it creates verification debt, and what governments outside the US can do about access.
- Pragmatic and open leadership: mentoring senior ICs and managers, communication under load, cadences that stick for diverse teams.
- Civic lab: what builders and local government can learn from each other.
Fireside chats, guest lectures and panels, in Europe or remote; limited slots per quarter. Email a line about the audience and the goal.
Notes
Confidentiality by default. Case notes are anonymized; clients referenced only with permission.