About

I raced triathlon professionally for a while. Lived at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Did Vineman, Coeur d'Alene, Oceanside. I could never really make it big time, to be completely honest. But I was always the guy who would just brute force the training. Hammer nonstop. That's kind of my thing.

When I stopped racing, I worked at a bike shop and a running store. Trued wheels. Helped people find shoes. Those jobs taught me what real customers care about by putting me right next to them every day.

In 2017, I joined TrainerRoad's support team. Support to product. Product to COO. Nearly ten years at one company, which in tech might be the most contrarian career move I've made. Along the way I've done product launches, accounting projects, ML features, internationalization across 13 languages. I'm essentially acting as the CFO right now too. Working at a small company gives you the chance to dive headfirst into stuff you never expected to touch.

The work I'm most proud of is TrainerRoad AI, an ML system that personalizes cycling workouts and dropped athlete failure rates by 48%. The company does over $16 million in revenue and I've had a hand in most of it.

Recently, I downloaded Claude Code and had what I'd call an oh-shit moment. I had a crappy Google Sheet script for tracking HSA receipts, and within an hour I had a full product. That became Tripl. AI is out of its cute phase. If you're not building with these tools, other people are, and they're going to leave you behind.

If I had to name the biggest thing I've learned in 10 years, it's adaptability. The second is that putting in the effort to understand people is the key to everything. Not just work relationships. Real connection. I look at leaders in sport and see the same thing. Nick Sirianni doesn't call plays on offense. Doesn't call plays on defense. He's been effectively fired from both those jobs because he's not good at them. And yet his players love him. He's led the Eagles to two Super Bowls and won one. The thing he does better than anyone is connect with his players on a level deeper than just work. Great leaders don't need to be the expert at everything. They need to know when to step aside and how to get the best out of the people around them.

That's probably the biggest reason for whatever success I've had. Not strategy. Not systems. Connecting with people.

Why put all this out there? I don't want to be a blogger. I don't want to be an influencer. I just want to show what I'm capable of. AI could be our industrial revolution, and if I'm not showing I can build with it, I'm going to get left behind. I have three boys. I want to make sure I give them security. That's the real why.