Principal Software Engineer · Microsoft Copilot Studio
New England · Remote, occasional onsite
Principal engineer and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building AI platforms and the teams that run them. At Microsoft, I lead engineering for all of Copilot Studio's UI services, used by more than 230,000 organizations including 90% of the Fortune 500, and my team was one of the founding teams behind the new Copilot Studio experience built on the GitHub Copilot harness. I also built an internal AI agent platform that turns weeks of incident, accessibility, and compliance work into days. Before Microsoft, I ran a 25-engineer organization at Nuance and led engineering for the Nuance Mix UI, a conversational AI platform with $200M in annual recurring revenue.
Strongest fit
Principal or Staff Engineer · Engineering Manager or Director · Head of AI Engineering
I live in Manchester, New Hampshire, with my wife, our 3-year-old daughter, and our dogs and cats.
At a glance
years building software
13+
engineers managed
100+
countries across my teams
6
revenue across 38 client businesses
$1M
Impact
Microsoft · Copilot Studio
Invented an AI agent platform for engineering operations
An internal platform that ingests engineering issues and works them end to end through a managed system of micro-agents. It grew into a dedicated engineering program that maintains, tests, and deploys its agents.
Accessibility (WCAG) fixes
Weeks to days
Incident resolution
Days to hours
Compliance fixes (non-product changes)
Fully automated
Microsoft · Copilot Studio
Built an LLM-powered live-site testing service
A hosted service in which LLM agents run real user scenarios against Copilot Studio's live websites, catching regressions before they become outages and cutting reliance on third-party testing vendors.
Vendor costs saved
Millions of dollars
Cost of a full 100-scenario test run
$40
Nuance Communications
Led engineering for the Nuance Mix UI
Built the team and the front end for Nuance Mix, the conversational AI toolset for designing IVR and chatbot experiences. Mix customers included HMRC, the IRS, New York Metro, and Rakuten.
Platform annual recurring revenue
$200M
Eyecast · Contract
Shipped thermal anomaly detection for Florida power substations
A thermal recognition system running on Raspberry Pi with dual-sensor cameras. It learns each site's own baseline and flags external temperature deviations on high-voltage equipment, pairing statistical models with GPU-powered reasoning to brief technicians.
Deployment
Hundreds of cameras across Florida
Experience
Microsoft
Principal Engineering Manager
– Present
Leads engineering across all Copilot Studio UI services. Founding team of the GitHub Copilot harness experience; built an internal AI agent platform for engineering operations.
Senior Software Engineering Manager
–
Led an international front-end team building Copilot Studio.
Eyecast
Machine Learning Engineer · Contract
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Built thermal anomaly detection deployed to power substations across Florida.
Code Upscale
Strategic Advisor · Contract
–
Advised companies on enterprise architecture and AI integration.
Chief Technology Officer · Part-time
–
$1M in sales revenue through partnerships with 38 businesses.
Nuance Communications
Software Engineering Manager
–
Ran a 25-engineer organization across four countries; engineering lead for the Nuance Mix UI.
Senior Frontend Engineer
–
Built the team and the Mix.dialog UI.
Komodal
Software Engineering Contractor · Contract
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Built container tracking and the first universal appointment system for the Port of LA/Long Beach.
Promoboxx
Senior Software Engineer
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Led a front-end team building campaign management.
Software Engineer
–
Built features and analytics for a brand and retailer marketing platform.
United States Geological Survey
Software Engineer
–
Built environmental data platforms and visualizations.
Engineering management · International teams (US, Canada, France, India) · Live-site operations and incident management · Hiring and team building · Delivery process and leadership reporting · Accessibility (WCAG) compliance
AI and machine learning
LLM agents and agent platforms · LLM-based testing and evaluation · Conversational AI · Applied machine learning · Computer vision (thermal imaging) · Python