I spent a decade building technology at scale—first as an engineer at Meta, then as a founding engineer at Summit Public Schools and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
In 2019, I became CTO at Braven, an education nonprofit. The role was supposed to be about product, data, and engineering. But I quickly learned that at a nonprofit, "CTO" means owning whatever technology problems exist—including IT operations that had no dedicated staff.
I needed to hire interns to help manage IT processes, but there was no budget for it. So I started digging through our vendor contracts and technology spending. I found the $20k. It was just sitting there—unused licenses, forgotten discounts, redundant tools. Money we were handing to Google, Asana, and Slack that could have been funding people.
That experience taught me something: this drain isn't just a Braven problem. It's an everywhere problem. No one's job is ongoing vendor optimization. Contracts auto-renew. Discounts go unclaimed. Licenses accumulate. And every dollar that leaks to SaaS platforms is a dollar that doesn't reach students.
My firm fixes this invisible technology debt, turning recovered dollars into lasting operational strength.
My work follows three phases:
I combine Big Tech technical depth with firsthand nonprofit operations experience—a combination that lets me see waste internal teams miss, design systems that actually fit how you work, and stay alongside you as a thought partner through implementation.
My clients are education nonprofits with $10M+ budgets who want funds without writing another grant application. The Recovery is performance-based: you pay nothing unless I deliver, and only after savings hit your account.
From there, recovered capital can fund strategic work—so you gain budget relief, a technology roadmap, and accountability without spending a dollar you weren't already spending.
I currently serve on the boards of Braven New Jersey and The Cooper School in Montclair. I've published in academic computer science journals, presented to nonprofit boards, and implemented technology changes that actually stick.
Curious what's hiding in your technology budget?