Professional experience

Director, AI Teammates Engineering

Led engineering for AI Teammates, Asana's AI agent product. Three teams.

• Took AI Teammates from private beta to general availability.
• Focused the GA launch on reliability and core functionality. We shipped on time.
• Managed the AI vendor relationships with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Mistral, including early access programs. The team shipped one of the first production MCP servers.
• AI Teammates reached millions in add-on revenue five months after GA.

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Retrieval

Led AI Retrieval at Asana. Two teams building the retrieval systems behind Asana's AI features.

• Took five AI prototypes to production. The RAG platform grew from one search feature to over a million requests each workday.
• Designed a hybrid RAG system: BM25 plus dense embeddings, with cross-encoder reranking.
• Managed the Anthropic and OpenAI relationships, including early access programs, and wrote a public Claude 3.5 Sonnet analysis.
• Helped build the AI org structure, and invested in a hiring pipeline for underrepresented candidates.
• Helped reposition AI Retrieval from a single-product feature into a platform used across Asana's AI features.
• Our context engineering work led to a patent application.

Integrations & Enterprise Experience

• Shipped bidirectional sync between Asana and Jira for enterprise customers.
• Took Tableau sync from 11 hours to 11 minutes.
• Coordinated scaling work for Asana's largest customer, an account with more than 150,000 users.

Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, & Engineering Manager

• Joined as an early engineer. Became a technical lead and then an engineering manager as the company grew from Series A to Series C.
• Shipped recommendations for the car marketplace.
• Rebuilt real-time search filtering on a bit-vector approach, cutting response times from ~7s to 7ms.

Director, Digital

Led digital strategy for technology and public affairs clients.

WhiteHouse.gov

Worked on the launch of WhiteHouse.gov as part of the Obama Administration's commitment to open government.

Education

• Brown University – B.A., Public Policy & American Institutions – 2009
• The London School of Economics – General Course, full year study abroad – 2007–2008
• Hack Reactor – Advanced Software Engineering Immersive – 2015