$4M
cloud cost saved at Wowza
About / TJ Klug
Engineer first. Now an operator.
I'm Operating Principal for Technology & AI at Clearhaven Partners, helping portfolio company engineering teams get real leverage from AI and evaluating the technology behind new deals.
Before any of that, I was a combat medic in the U.S. Army. It still shapes how I lead: triage first, team first, outcomes over outputs.
This blog is where I write up what I build: agentic engineering on twenty-year-old codebases, hybrid setups that pair frontier and local models, and the unglamorous infrastructure that makes AI pay off. Most posts come with the setup and the numbers.
$12M
budget run at Limeade: 80 employees, 30+ contractors
4 months
to ship ByteChek's new platform as its first technical hire
1,500
regression tests written in three days
- 2025 – nowClearhaven PartnersOperating Principal, Technology & AIAI adoption and architecture with portfolio company engineering teams; technical due diligence on new deals.
- 2024 – 2025ArmaninoPrincipal Software Engineer & DirectorMulti-agent workflows for evidence collection, data analysis and workpaper generation; a multi-tenant serverless knowledge-base platform.
- 2023 – 2024WowzaVP of EngineeringA multi-cloud cost optimization that saved $4 million; teams reorganized around product areas; an acquired platform brought into the core product.
- 2022ByteChek (acquired by Armanino)Chief Technology & Product OfficerFirst technical hire. Stood up engineering, product, design and security, and shipped a new platform in four months.
- 2020 – 2022Limeade (acquired by WebMD)VP of EngineeringA $12 million budget covering 80 employees and 30+ contractors.
- EarlierU.S. ArmyCombat medicTriage first, team first, outcomes over outputs.