Azra Games
AI-First AAA RPG Development
As Founder, CTO and COO, I led AI Transformation, Technical Strategy, and Operations for a 130 person studio developing AAA quality RPGs that require 500 person teams.
Founder. CTO. Startup Advisor.
I build products loved by millions of users.
I'm a 3x founder, 1 successful exit via IPO. I've raised over $450MM while being an executive leader over Product, Engineering and Operations.
Selected Work
Learn more about how I've shipped products that millions of people loved.
Swimply
The Hottest Marketplace of 2021
As Founding Engineer and VP of Engineering, I built the 0 -> 1 PLG, Engineering, and Analytics teams that fixed a broken app, 5x'd organic growth, and won Apple's App of the Day.
Waitr
Taking a Marketplace From Napkin → NASDAQ
As VP of Product & Engineering, I scaled 7 products to millions of users, over 1 Billion in GMV, and an IPO with less than 1% of the capital of our national rivals.
Investors
I've been on the operating side of $450M+ in combined reported financing and transaction value, as founder, executive, and corporate officer.
Swimply
Raised $40MM as Founding Engineer & VP of Engineering.
Mayfield
Norwest
GGV Capital
Ensemble Ventures
Azra Games
Raised $95MM as Co-Founder, CTO, and COO.
a16z
Pantera Capital
NFX
Coinbase Ventures
Play Ventures
Franklin Templeton
Featured Articles
Essays on engineering judgment in the agent era.
Latest ·
Agentic Engineering Requires One More Shift Left
Security shifted left into CI a decade ago. The authoring moved into the agent harness, and the gates are following.
EngineeringFeatured ·
Taskmaxxing > Tokenmaxxing
The per-token price is a proxy. The real KPI is cost per completed task.
EngineeringFeatured ·
Evals > Vibes
Agent skills are code now. Almost nobody tests them, and the few honest measurements should worry you.
EngineeringOpen Source
I build agentic skills and agentic tooling to help founders and engineering teams get more out of AI.
cc-thinking-skills
1281★· as of 2026.09.01
18 mental models plus a harness that checks whether they improve Claude Code answers. When they do not, the report says so.
View repositorycc-skills-vc-fundraising
24★· as of 2026.09.01
Pitch analysis, fundraising strategy, and investor-relations workflows for founders, based on first principles from Sequoia, a16z, Benchmark, and YC.
View repositoryready-agent-1
2★· as of 2026.09.01
Score how agent-ready a codebase is with deterministic, cited Level 1–5 checks. Clear the gates before agents touch production paths.
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