I build and lead the engineering teams that ship AI.
14 years building software. Three exits. Teams scaled from two to 80+. Products from $0 to $50M ARR.
VP Engineering, CTO, Technical AI Product Manager. Looking for the next one.
What I do
- Ship AI/ML in productionFirst agentic AI assistant in AgTech, a full year ahead of any competitor. RAG over 2,000+ academic studies. Custom PyTorch + OpenCV computer vision pipelines. 70% support cost reduction via LLM automation. 85% fewer production incidents through MLOps discipline.
- Lead engineering teamsIC → Director → VP → CTO across five companies. Up to 18 direct reports. 95% team satisfaction. 100% on-time delivery, eight consecutive quarters. Remote-first, async, no chaos.
- Scale companiesThree acquisitions. $0 to $50M ARR. Teams from two to 80+. I've been in the room for the fundraises, the diligence, and the integrations.
- Own architecture & infrastructureAWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform. Cloud migrations, SOC2 audits, HIPAA-compliant data pipelines, NFT marketplaces on Flow, decentralized exchanges on Ethereum, Rust protocol work on Substrate.
- Drive product & roadmapTechnical Product Manager for Frequency Protocol and SpexAI. PMF validation, roadmap development, sprint planning, technical due diligence. I've been CPO and TPM — I know how to write user stories engineers don't hate.
By the numbers
Recently
Project Liberty — Frequency Protocol
Technical Product Manager · Nov 2022 – Nov 2025
Directed an 11-engineer distributed team across 4 time zones building a Rust-based decentralized social protocol. Shipped on-chain LLM context portability, a B2B consent-based data marketplace, and Rust PII security nodes. Eight consecutive quarters of 100% on-time delivery.
SpexAI (acquired)
ML Engineer & Product Owner · Sep 2022 – Mar 2025
Led the full AI/ML portfolio for an enterprise AgTech platform. Shipped the first agentic AI assistant in AgTech a full year ahead of any competitor. Built RAG over 2,000+ academic studies, custom PyTorch + OpenCV CV pipelines, and Langchain agents for NL-to-SQL across greenhouse operations. Cut support costs 70%, production incidents 85%.
Techstars
All Star Mentor · Jun 2023 – Present
All Star Mentor three years running. Pro bono lead mentor for early-stage AI companies — model evaluation, RAG architectures, technical hiring, SOC2 prep. Built the automated technical and product due diligence pipelines Techstars uses to grade program applicants.
I'm Patrick. I've been CTO, VP Engineering, CPO, Technical Product Owner. Built teams, shipped products, been through three acquisitions. Written Rust for blockchain protocols, Python for ML pipelines, and mass amounts of JavaScript.
Before all that, I was an intern at Mozilla. Before that, I was tutoring GED prep to homeless teenagers at a drop-in center in Denver. I still mentor at youth hackathons — 9 years now.
I'm a Techstars All Star Mentor (three years running). Off the clock I do pro bono AI/ML work for nonprofits at arus impact — Bellingcat, Reporters Without Borders, CyberPeace Institute.
Fort Collins, Colorado. Open to remote, hybrid, or the right opportunity anywhere.
What people say
“He will not say what you want to hear, but need to hear. Forging a solution that is fit for the task with as little ego as possible.”
“Patrick was one of our mentors at Techstars and easily the most impactful. He has this rare ability to immediately understand a problem and zero in on smart, scrappy ways to solve it.”
“He can be anything you need him to be. Architect, developer, product shepherd, teacher, organizer, leader... I believe he's the best CTO in Colorado.”
“Patrick didn't just recite technical facts. He translated ML intricacies into choices that fit our product and resource constraints, helping us stay focused and move fast, even during pivots.”
Hire me
Looking for my next full-time role — VP Engineering, CTO, Head of AI, or Technical AI Product Management. Remote, hybrid in Colorado, or the right opportunity anywhere.
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