Manager of Software Engineering / "Buck-a-witz"
I lead an engineering team at Northwestern Mutual, where we're building the tools financial advisors use to do their jobs.
My background is frontend development, but the job these days is mostly about people - figuring out what's in the way, helping someone get unstuck, making sure the team has what it needs to do good work. Northwestern Mutual, like so many others, is rebuilding the way that it operates around AI. I'm trying to build and support a team that's genuinely good at that.
Outside of work: I'm into finding new music on bandcamp, good indie films, making coffee, working out, and spending time with my family.
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