Experience

  1. Canopy

    Senior Software Engineer

    2021–26
  2. NCUA

    Data Scientist, contract

    2021
  3. CBOE

    Software Engineer, intern

    2019
  4. Kansas State University

    PEARS dev, then data science

    2017–21

Shipping production code since 2017.

Screenshot: The Content Co-Pilot

01The Content Co-Pilot

Solo, design, engineering, orchestration2026

Content Harness for AI Agents

Eight phases take a raw idea to a ready-to-post reel for my Wild & Native Gardens channel, which ships weekly across three platforms, so my energy stays on the creative work.

93% → <50% skip rateWeekly across 3 platforms

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PEARS Event Registration screenshot
02PEARS Event Registration

Senior Software Engineer, Canopy2024–26

Event registration, made calm

Production software real organizations depend on: calm UX over genuinely complex, compliance-heavy, multi-fee forms.

10,000+ registrations5+ organizations

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PEARS Module Builder screenshot
03PEARS Module Builder

Senior Software Engineer, Canopy2024–26

No-code tools, real structure

Any organization builds its own data tools inside a production platform, with an AI assistant that drafts a module from plain English.

No-code builderAI-assisted drafts

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04VisaNav

Solo, product, full-stack + AI2025–26

Immigration help, grounded and open

A free public service: plain-language immigration answers grounded in official USCIS data and a public directory of resources, first built as a legal SaaS, now an open-source public good.

$100 → ~$5/mo hostingAGPL-3.0 open source

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The toolbox.

Design to deploy: the stack behind the work.

Design

  • Design systems
  • UX flows
  • Figma
  • Claude Design
  • Game UI (Godot)

Frontend

  • Vue / Nuxt
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Component libraries

Testing

  • Jest
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • TDD

AI & systems

  • Claude agents
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Python
  • Pydantic-AI
  • Django
  • Pinecone
  • Terraform

Let's build something.

Product engineerDesign + build + AI

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