Work
Agentic AI & Edge AI systems, backed by mobile, distributed systems, and fintech depth
Pantheon - AI Orchestration Platform
Building an agentic AI orchestration platform to run my own fractional CTO delivery work at scale, open-sourcing components piece by piece as each one proves itself.
Hertz (via Zilker) - Digital Transformation & Performance
Led digital transformation and performance engineering for a global rental leader, achieving a 6,000% throughput improvement with >3K reads/sec and >2.5K writes/sec at sub-500ms latency.
Chick-fil-A (via EY) - Offline-First Ordering & Device Mesh
$20M EY engagement: architected offline-capable ordering with Ditto and event queues for device-to-device communication, enabling migration off legacy Aloha POS.
Frontiers Market - Edge AI NVR System
Local-first video monitoring infrastructure for livestock management in low-connectivity rural environments using Raspberry Pi clusters and custom NVR software.
Frontiers Market - Escrow & Payment Rails
Financial settlement infrastructure using Stripe Connect with separate charges and transfers to create a trustless escrow system for high-value livestock transactions.
Wayfair - Supply Chain Optimization
Built internal tools that rectified supply chain workflows, improved image pipelines, reduced fraud, and optimized day-to-day operations and mobile experience — contributing to a broader effort the business credited with $5M+ in reduced lost-inventory cost.
Costco Mobile Commerce (via Ascendant)
Mobile architect for one of the world's largest retailers, designing the mobile web shopping experience on IBM WebSphere Commerce.
Frontiers Market - Livestock Mobile App
Native iOS application with on-device computer vision for livestock identification and management, featuring store-and-forward sync for offline operation.
Frontiers Market - Marketplace Platform
Multi-tenant marketplace platform for cattle trading with comprehensive registry, lineage tracking, and real-time inventory management.
Reserved - Venue Management SaaS
Multi-tenant SaaS platform for venue reservation management with dynamic rules engine for complex regulatory compliance including NYC block laws.
Shindig - Event Discovery
Kotlin Multiplatform mobile application aggregating events from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and Facebook with geo-spatial search and real-time recommendations.
Tabletop Archive - P2P Rental Marketplace
Peer-to-peer rental marketplace for gaming equipment with Stripe escrow, state machine-driven inventory management, and fraud prevention via shipping verification.
DaVita - Dialysis Machine Uptime at Scale
Kept live dialysis-machine integrations reliable and consistent as new sites came online — each new location added new bottlenecks, and this built the processes to absorb that scaling pressure without breaking uptime.
Frontiers Market - Client RAG Chatbots
Client-facing chatbots grounded in each customer’s own data, built by evaluating multiple agent and memory architectures side by side rather than committing to one stack up front.
Frontiers Market - Agentic Dev Swarm Tooling
Internal tooling built around coordinated AI-agent swarms to improve the engineering team’s dev velocity and code quality while leading the team.
Flayr - AI Social-Automation Content Engine
AI-driven B2B content engine automating content creation, scheduling, and cross-posting across social accounts — dogfooded internally at Firefly Events before external launch.
Best Ring POS - Offline-First Festival Payments
Offline-first payment sync for festival point-of-sale, with real-time fraud signals disabling compromised cards festival-wide even without connectivity.
Portunus - Secrets That Never Touch the LLM
A secret broker for AI agents — resolves credentials to a tempfile path or a fully-run command's result, never the raw value, enforced fail-closed at the tool boundary.
Property-Intelligence Drone Platform
A geospatial property-intelligence system: LiDAR terrain, parcel data, and aerial capture fused into an interactive, multi-tenant viewer.