AI Product Advisory
Building and advising on AI-enabled consumer and productivity applications with a practical eye for workflow fit, product-market fit, data boundaries, and user trust.
AI-enabled products · GTM advisory · Field leadership
GTM and product-market fit instincts forged in the field.
A decade of technical selling taught me what messaging lands with buyers — and what falls flat. I bring that field perspective to fractional GTM and product advisory, data cloud architecture, and AI-enabled product development through MERA Consulting.
15+
years in data, cloud, and solution engineering
100+
countries supported for global technical sales
45%
above quota · Snowflake FY26, global territory
80+
technical posts
authored for product education
Where I Focus
A focused view of the work behind the career arc: fractional advisory, architecture, technical selling, technical writing, product messaging, and product development.
Solution Engineering Leadership
Building, mentoring, and scaling SE teams across Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, and Cloudera. Driving enterprise pre-sales motions, customer adoption, and revenue outcomes across financial services and global accounts.
Data Cloud Architecture
Helping teams make durable platform choices across Snowflake, distributed databases, cloud-native delivery, governance, automation, and customer adoption paths.
Independent Projects
MERA Consulting anchors the current independent work: a practical studio for fractional advisory, product messaging, prototyping, and building AI-enabled products.
MERA Consulting, LLC
Founder / Principal Consultant · Mar 2026 - Present · part-time
- Established MERA Consulting to build and advise on AI-enabled consumer and productivity applications.
- Advise on sales, GTM, sales engineering, solution engineering, community outreach, growth strategy, product-market fit, and product messaging.
- Developed Zone 2 Trainer, a heart-rate-zone fitness coaching app currently in Google Play review.
- Building a personal assistant productivity prototype for task management, contextual reminders, and workflow automation.
Latest Work & Activity
Recent writing and the ideas I am exploring in public: practical AI development, product building, and the systems behind useful software.
Experience
A long arc through hospital IT at Maimonides and NYP, big data platforms, open-source ecosystems, distributed databases, and data cloud leadership.
Solution Engineering Manager / Principal Solution Engineer
Team leadership, global financial services strategy, and data cloud adoption. Managed and mentored solution engineers, drove customer growth for a global financial services organization, and shaped technical pre-sales engagements across complex enterprise deployments.
Solutions Engineer / Enterprise Architect
Distributed database depth at startup scale. Led technical onboarding and migrations to CockroachDB, authored 80 technical posts, and helped establish customer success and technical advisory practices.
Principal Solutions Engineer - Northeast
Regional revenue growth and open-source depth. Served as SME for Ambari, HBase, Phoenix, Oozie, and SmartSense while advising financial services, healthcare, and media accounts.
Big Data Engineer / Database Administrator
Big data and database operations at hospital scale. Built Hadoop and Java MapReduce systems for clinical data pipelines, managed SQL Server deployments, and led infrastructure modernization and disaster recovery improvements.
System Administrator / Database Administrator
Operational foundations in healthcare IT. Managed SQL Server environments, supported clinical systems infrastructure, and maintained reliability for hospital operations.
Resume Snapshot
A recruiter-friendly summary of the current career story, with the full resume available for download.
Current Positioning
Founder and principal consultant at MERA Consulting, LLC — a part-time independent practice for building and advising on AI-enabled consumer and productivity applications, concurrent with a senior solution engineering leadership role at Snowflake.
Download ResumeResume Highlights
- 15+ years across IT operations, data platforms, and solution engineering.
- Leadership for global financial services accounts and distributed technical teams.
- Hands-on credibility across Snowflake, CockroachDB, Hadoop ecosystem tools, Kubernetes, and automation.
- Independent product work through MERA Consulting: Zone 2 Trainer (in Google Play review) and a personal assistant prototype in development.
Skills and Signals
Hands-on systems engineering across the full stack — from hospital IT to distributed databases to data cloud pre-sales — with recent work building AI-enabled consumer apps.
Technical
- Data Cloud Architecture & Strategy
- Distributed Database Systems
- Technical Pre-Sales & SE Leadership
- Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code
Tools
- Snowflake, Hadoop, HBase, Phoenix
- CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
- Python, Java, Golang
- Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
- Linux, PowerShell
Recognition
- Top Revenue Producer - North America
- Solutions Engineer MVP
- DZone Database Expert
- Apache HBase, Phoenix, Oozie contributor
Education
- SnowPro Core Certified
- M.S. in Information Systems
- B.S. in Computer Science
- Brooklyn College
Let’s build something useful.
Available for AI product advisory, data cloud architecture conversations, and technical leadership collaborations.