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. COO. AI Transformation. Technical 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. I lead Operations, Technology and AI Transformation at Azra Games as we build UnGodly, the studio's first AAA console-quality mobile RPG.
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.
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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.
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Taskmaxxing > Tokenmaxxing
The per-token price is a proxy. The real KPI is cost per completed task.
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Evals > Vibes
Agent skills are code now. Almost nobody tests them, and the few honest measurements should worry you.
Open 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.
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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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How can I help?
I angel invest and advise startups. If you’re a founder stuck on product, engineering, AI in production, or technical diligence, send the situation and the timing. It goes straight to my inbox.