Founded by a principal engineer and serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience across every layer of the technology stack.
I'm a software architect and developer who has spent 30 years building systems that work — and fixing systems that don't. I've written code that runs over a billion times a day at Amazon, built streaming servers from protocol specifications, replaced million-dollar failed vendor solutions with systems that actually met requirements, and founded companies from the ground up.
I'm not a narrow specialist. I operate across the entire technology stack: C and C++ at the bottom, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure in the middle, and web applications and APIs at the top. When I join a project, I own it from architecture through deployment.
I believe in building the simplest thing that solves the problem completely. I've seen too many organizations waste time and money on over-engineered solutions or under-qualified vendors. My approach is direct: understand what you actually need, design the right solution, and deliver it efficiently.
I work well independently. As a founder and CTO, I'm used to setting direction, solving blocking problems, and communicating progress clearly to non-technical stakeholders. You don't need to manage me — you just need to tell me what problem to solve.
Dry Ark LLC was founded in 2020. Our flagship product, ControlFloor, is an enterprise iOS device farm platform used by companies to remotely control, test, and manage physical iOS devices at scale.
In addition to our product work, we offer consulting services to organizations that need expert engineering help — whether that's a database that needs optimizing, a platform that needs building, or a technical problem that nobody else has been able to solve.
We believe in building in the open. Here are some of the projects we maintain and contribute to.
Central hub for iOS support in STF (Smartphone Test Farm). Connects all the components needed to run iOS devices in an open-source device farm. 163 stars on GitHub.
System for controlling mobile devices remotely. The open-source foundation of our commercial device farm platform. 90 stars on GitHub.
iOS command line interface written in C. Uses Apple's MobileDevice framework directly for maximum compatibility and future-proofing. 29 stars on GitHub.
Self-contained, portable Homebrew packages for macOS. No Homebrew, no Xcode, no internet at install time. Currently shipping Python 3.13 in a 13 MB DMG.
A track record of taking ownership, solving hard problems, and delivering results at every scale.
Expert-level proficiency across the full stack, from bare metal to cloud.
C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Perl, Java, Ruby, Objective-C, Bash, SQL
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, AWS (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS), Nginx, Apache
MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, DynamoDB, Redshift, MongoDB
Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, Arch), macOS, Node.js, Django, Rails, Spring, Tomcat
Penetration testing, LDAP, OIDC, SAML, OAuth, OpenAM/Dex, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Nmap
nanomsg, ZeroMQ, Kafka, SQS, Avro, Hadoop, Spark, ELK Stack, Fluentd
Deep experience analyzing undocumented protocols and binary formats using Ghidra and custom tooling. Reverse-engineered Apple's lockdown USB protocol to build iosif — the first open-source project to run XCTest properly outside of Xcode. Built a Ghidra MCP server for macOS and iOS RE workflows including dyld cache extraction and firmware decryption.
Two years of daily work with large language models for research, code generation, and automation. Deeply fluent with AI-assisted development workflows — using tools like Cursor to deliver complex, production-quality systems at dramatically accelerated timelines.
Whether you need a few hours of consulting or a long-term engineering partner, I'm ready to help.
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