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Penned & Plated
Handwritten recipe cards read by Claude and turned into clean recipes, on the web and iPhone.
Read the case study →Senior software engineer · 27 years shipping
One senior engineer.
The range of a product team.
Two decades of building back-end systems taught me what’s worth building, how it should fit together, and when it’s actually done. Lately, AI tools let me bring that experience and taste to native apps, web products, and automation — with an approach that keeps them maintainable.
TeamsTestFit · Ideon · KindHealth · Gloo · Viget (19 yrs)
ClientsShedd Aquarium · Bethesda Softworks · US News · Shure
Featured work
What I’m building
How I can help
Senior judgment, applied where it’s needed
Three ways to work together, each backed by 27 years of shipping software. You work directly with me, start to finish.
Building products
For founders and non-technical teams: idea to shipped web, mobile, or desktop app.
Agentic development
For engineering teams adopting AI agents: workflows, review practices, and CI checks that raise output without lowering quality.
Staff-level engineering
For teams with hard problems or aging systems: architecture, modernization, and mentoring.
The lab
Small tools, real problems
Things I build to fix my own problems, most with an agent doing the typing. Many took an evening.
call-coachLive AI coaching on my own customer-service calls. Its first real call cut a bill in half.Ruby · Sinatra · Twilio
drive-reconRecovered about 80 GB from 17 old drives, with a ReiserFS reader written from scratch.Data recovery
squeezebox-resurrectA SlimProto server written in Go over a weekend, with gapless playback and search.Go · MediaSource ↗
Writing & talks
What I've learned
Posts and talks from across my career.
Working on something interesting? Let’s compare notes.
Always happy to talk shop about software, side projects, or whatever you’re working on. I read every message and reply personally.
Or find me on GitHub