Principal Architect · Wharton Executive CTO Program

Principal Architect. Production AI. 20 years building engineering organizations that ship.

Wharton Executive CTO Program graduate. Built production AI agents, led cloud-native transformations at scale, and created Internal Developer Platforms that reduced service setup from weeks to hours.

A Wharton Executive CTO Program graduate with 20+ years building and transforming engineering organizations. Brad has shipped production AI agents, led a 5-year evolution from monolithic to cloud-native distributed architecture, and built Internal Developer Platforms that reduced new service setup from weeks to hours. His teams have cut observability costs by 50%, delivered $100K under AWS budget, and 4× release frequency. He's available for Principal Architect, VP of Architecture, AI Innovation Leader, and Fractional CTO engagements.

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Available for Principal Architect, VP Architecture, and Fractional CTO engagements

20+ Years Experience
4× Release Frequency
60% Faster Onboarding via AI Agents
50% Observability Cost Reduction
$100K Under AWS Budget Delivered

Expertise

What I do

Architecture & Platform

Cloud-native transformations that last. Distributed systems designed to scale without accumulating debt. Guided a 5-year migration from monolith to microservices and built Internal Developer Platforms that compressed new service setup from weeks to hours. Architecture decisions that map to business outcomes, not just technical ideals.

Cloud-Native Distributed Systems IDP Microservices

Production AI Systems

Not AI experiments — production systems. Shipped AI agents grounded in internal documentation that reduced developer onboarding time by 60%, integrated LLMs into developer tooling, and deployed AI-assisted workflows before most organizations had a name for it. Real systems, running in production, with measurable outcomes.

AI Agents LLM Integration Developer Tooling RAG

Engineering Leadership

The Wharton Executive CTO credential reflects a belief: the difference between technical leadership and executive technical leadership is translating architectural decisions into business outcomes — and back. Hands-on in the codebase and in the room when strategy is set. Org design, team building, engineering culture, executive technical strategy.

Org Design Team Building Wharton CTO Technical Strategy

Writing

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Disposable Code from the Architect's Perspective

Disposable code isn't technical debt—it's well-built features designed with vertical slice architecture to remove cleanly when business needs change.

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If you're working on a real architecture problem — or building the team to solve one — I'd like to hear about it. I respond to every message.

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Available for Principal Architect, VP Architecture, and Fractional CTO engagements. Let's talk.