My career is defined by the things I never wanted to be.

I never wanted to be a teacher. I never wanted to be an engineer. And I certainly never wanted to be a founder who spends his nights wrestling with a codebase. I hate coding.

So why am I here, building a tech platform from the ground up?

Because I am a Systems and Operations Leader who has spent over a decade architecting and scaling the complex operational infrastructures that make businesses run. I led the team at Scribd that designed the systems to support their transformation from 800k to over 2.2M subscribers. I know, intimately, how to build a competent, scalable product.

And I know the talent market is a fundamentally broken system.

I would rather be honest and show the seams than cake on some makeup and pretend everything is alright. Everything is not alright. The market is a chaotic mess of black-box algorithms, subjective bias, and profound inefficiency.

Responding to that reality requires stepping out of your comfort zone. For me, that meant stepping into the role of a founder and a coder—not because I love it, but because it is the necessary tool to fix the problem.

Transparent Talent is an act of conviction. It is the application of a decade of systems-thinking to a problem that desperately needs it. This platform will not be perfect on day one. But it will be competent, because it is being built with the discipline and strategic thinking learned from years of scaling real-world operations. We are building this in public, seams and all, because that is the only way to build something truly transparent.