a digital guidebook for guests of my airbnb, with personalized check-in links, house details, and local denver recommendations. i proudly have a 5-star rating across 25+ reviews, ranking in the top 5% of homes in denver.
view project →a daily home-price guessing game
view project →an app for organizing potlucks with friends. accounts for allergies & dietary restrictions, helps pick recipes, portion sizes, and shopping lists.
view project →march madness for agents
view project →a web app for playing avalon: the resistance, the classic social deduction board game with hidden roles. helps facilitate games IRL, take notes, learn strategy, etc.
view project →a domain availability checker that lets you quickly find available website domains directly from imessage conversations
view project →2024 - present
vellum
hybrid role spanning customer-facing enterprise post-sales / fde work and full-stack product + ai engineering on our own product. on the customer side, advising teams on ai product strategy and building directly with them. on the product side, building ai features for enterprise-grade ai development tooling, primarily vellum agent builder—a coding agent that builds and debugs llm workflows.
vellum.ai →2019 - 2024
fiveable
joined as first full-time hire and spent >4 years as Head of Engineering. scaled from ~3,000 to 1m+ monthly active users via seo. led migration from cra to nextjs/vercel (50x page speed improvement), built content tools achieving 150m+ google search impressions per year.
fiveable.me →2019
self-employed
built hipaa-compliant apps for a medical firm across 6 locations. developed a python app reducing a 2-day manual process to under 20 seconds, later rewritten with electron for easier distribution.
2018
intuit
helped the identity platform team migrate to aws. built an ios prototype for biometric authentication during a hackathon. applied for 2 patents and received awards for events planning and patent work.
2017
ibm
developed a patient engagement chatbot to help manage and prevent diabetes through diet, exercise, and education. built mvp as proof-of-concept for a multi-million dollar proposed contract using node.js, typescript, and watson.
2017 - 2018
swopshop
co-founded a mobile app for buying, selling, and trading belongings in a swipe format. won $5,000 placing 3rd of 30+ teams in transcend innovation competition (sponsored by qualcomm). built ios prototype with swift.
things i've been reading
eliezer yudkowsky & nate soares
a stark warning about artificial superintelligence. yudkowsky and soares argue that the default outcome of building ASI is extinction—not because AI would be malevolent, but because it wouldn't care about humans while pursuing its goals. despite the grim premise, the book ends with hope, pointing to humanity's track record of coordinating against existential threats.
rebecca solnit
solnit's essays on gender dynamics and silencing. the titular essay coined 'mansplaining' and remains sharply relevant.
tim wise
reflections on race and privilege in america. challenging and necessary reading for understanding systemic inequality.
reed hastings
netflix's unconventional culture of freedom and responsibility. fascinating look at how radical transparency and removing controls can work at scale.
sheryl sandberg
sandberg's perspective on women in leadership. sparked important conversations about workplace dynamics and ambition.
randy pausch
a moving reflection on life, dreams, and legacy. pausch's perspective on achieving childhood dreams while facing mortality is profound and deeply human.