I’ve sold and built since I was a kid, and I never really stopped. Today I make AI systems, the GPU hardware they run on, and I take them to market myself. Teams usually split that across two hires. I’m the one who covers both ends.
Drop in the role you're hiring for. I score my fit against it live, tell you which of my strengths to lead with, and draft the pitch. Runs right here, nothing leaves the page.
Engineers who can sell are rare. Sellers who can build are rarer. I do the whole loop.
I design and ship working AI, not slideware. A whole suite of agents runs on what I built.
Stand up the demo, wire it into their stack, and teach the team to run it. The forward-deployed motion.
A decade in technical sales. I have owned quota and personally closed $2.6M full-cycle, selling into names like Tesla, Lockheed Martin, and Intuitive Surgical.
Computer engineering and NASA research taught me to make a deep technical case in plain language a buyer trusts.
I founded and operate ETG near-solo: build, sell, support, and the back office. I know how the whole operation actually works.
Every outcome feeds back into the system. I build things that get sharper on their own.
The first thing I ever sold, I probably shouldn’t have. I was five or six, working a roadside spot with corn I’d pulled from a farmer’s field. I had something to sell and a place to sell it, and that was the whole plan. It stuck. Candy, magazines, calculators, electronics, whatever people wanted, I was the kid who could find it.
I was taking things apart just as long. At eight I hacked my father’s computer. I grew up in New Mexico, always more interested in how a machine worked than in leaving it alone.
In college I ran a little business called Las Cruces Link, buying up broken electronics, fixing them, flipping them on eBay. Soldering iron in one hand, invoices in the other. Studying both was on purpose: a business degree and an engineering degree, then master’s work in battery and data engineering.
Then I did it for a living. At Engineering Solutions-West I turned a dead Northern California territory into the top one, selling into names like Tesla and Lockheed Martin. At General Micro Systems I chased down defense and federal contracts and closed them. In 2019 I started Emerging Technology Group. We build and deploy the GPU and high-performance computing systems that AI runs on, alongside partners like Intel, Dell, and Lenovo.
Then I built the LeadFuel suite on that hardware and closed $2.6M of it myself. That’s the whole arc for me: from the silicon to the agent, then out the door to a customer.
I’ve had to start over more than once. It taught me to stay steady, and to build from wherever I happen to be standing.
I would rather build the thing and show you than oversell what I can do.— Novah Greywolf
A place where I can build, deploy, and sell at the same time.
One shared brain, several action arms. I architected and shipped all of it. This is the demo a forward-deployed engineer gives.
Know who to sell to. Models the ideal customer and surfaces the accounts that fit.
Outbound that sounds human. Multichannel campaigns written in your voice, with the follow-up.
Social on autopilot. Content in your voice, generated and scheduled.
Keep every relationship warm. Inbox intelligence that surfaces and prioritizes who to touch.
The brain that connects them. One shared memory and voice every app reads and writes.
An AI that is yours. Learns how you write, think, and decide from your own data.
Your life, scheduled. Turns goals into time-blocked days with the prework already done.
Runs any pursuit end to end. Sources, scores fit, tailors materials, tracks every outcome.
The technical shape behind the suite, and the kind of system I would build for you.
Every app reads from one shared brain and acts through a governed tool boundary. Reads are free. Anything that leaves the account waits for approval. It’s multi-tenant and isolated per account, shipped as small services I run myself, with a fleet of dozens of specialized agents doing the work. That’s the architecture I’d bring to your team.
Eight things I built, running right here in the page. No backend, no login. This is what showing up looks like when you’re forward-deployed.
Hand it a company and a pain point. It writes a cold opener that sounds like me.
Type in any role title. It scores the fit against my profile and tailors a bullet to match.
Paste in stiff corporate copy. Echo rewrites it the way I’d actually say it.
Tell it what you’re trying to get done. It builds a focused day with the prep already noted.
Tell it what you sell. It profiles the buyer worth chasing and scores who fits.
Give it a topic. It drafts a LinkedIn post that sounds like you, not a brand.
Name someone you’ve lost touch with. It finds a real reason to reconnect.
Give it a goal. It shows how the whole suite would run the play together.
Built the whole AI agent suite above, end to end, on frontier LLMs, the LinkedIn API, and Microsoft Graph. Closed $2.6M as founder, every deal mine from open to close.
Won and grew Department of Defense and government accounts for rugged high-performance servers. Carried each account from first call to signed contract, and stood up the team’s Salesforce CRM.
Took a dormant Northern California territory to number one and won the “Most Sales” award. Sold precision instrumentation and hardware into names like Intuitive Surgical and Genentech.
B.S. Electronic & Computer Engineering, M.Eng Battery Technology, and an M.S. in Data Engineering. For NASA I did reduced-gravity research, writing a spacecraft inertia-estimation algorithm.
Here’s how I’d approach a forward-deployed role. Get in and ship something real first, then worry about making it repeatable once it’s working.
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I build the AI systems and the hardware behind them, then I go win the deal. Most companies need two people for that, a builder and a closer. I’ve been both for as long as I can remember.
A full suite of production AI agents: LeadFuel, Echo, Lucid, Odyssey, and a few more, all wired into the same brain. And through Emerging Technology Group, the physical side too: GPU and high-performance-computing hardware.
I founded ETG, an electronic-manufacturing company. We design and build GPU and HPC systems and put them in the field for government and education. And I hold an M.Eng in Battery Technology, so the hardware isn’t abstract to me.
I’ve personally closed $2.6M, start to finish. Before founding anything I revived a written-off sales territory, and later broke into government and defense accounts for the first time.
Tesla, Lockheed Martin, Intuitive Surgical, Genentech, and the U.S. Department of Defense, among others.
Yes, genuinely. Two engineering degrees, and I work daily in Python, data engineering, REST APIs, and SQL. And I ship AI agents into production and keep them running, not just prototypes.
Two undergrad degrees, in business and in electronic & computer engineering, then an M.Eng in Battery Technology and an M.S. in Data Engineering. I also did reduced-gravity research for NASA.
ETG is still early, and I’m proud of it. But I want to be a key player inside a high-growth AI team, somewhere I can do this at real scale instead of alone.
Forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer or architect, applied AI, founding engineer, or a technical AE. Anywhere the job needs someone who can code and carry a number.
Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area, mostly. I’ll relocate for the right team, and I’m glad to travel to wherever the customer is.
Forward-deployed roles usually sit somewhere between $180K and $480K, but the real number is a conversation. I’m interviewing now, and I can move fast for the right seat.
Thirty minutes, no pitch. Tell me about the role and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person for it.
Builder who ships and sells. A decade across computer engineering and full-cycle technical sales, now founder of Emerging Technology Group building a suite of production AI agents. I build the system, deploy it at the customer, and close the loop back to the product. The forward-deployed motion, end to end.