Engineering leader. Founder. Novelist. Two patents. One book. Lots of code.
Built a way for open source maintainers to get paid to work their backlog. Users back the GitHub issues they care about, and when a merged PR closes one, the pool pays out to the maintainer. No workflow changes, no bounty-hunting PR races, just little by little.
Built a workflow orchestrator for Claude Code. It watches your issue tracker, spins up containerized AI sessions to implement the work, creates PRs, handles review feedback, monitors CI, and auto-merges. Written in Go, available via Homebrew.
Built a CLI for running parallel Claude sessions. Because sometimes you want to try three different approaches without losing your place. Written in Go, available via Homebrew.
Built an experimental programming language from scratch using AI pair programming. Functional + OO paradigms, three-tiered execution (interpreter → bytecode VM → ARM64 JIT), and surprisingly fun to write.
Wrote a book that teaches transformer architecture from first principles. Covers building transformers, understanding gradients, and generating images from noise.
Wrote a science fiction novel called Singular. Vintage computers, artificial intelligence gone rogue, the fate of humanity.
Leading engineering teams at Planning Center. We build tools that help churches help people.
Built a social network for churches from scratch. Grew it to nearly a million users before Zondervan acquired it.
Built pricing algorithms and anomaly detection systems before “data science” was even a thing. Earned two patents.
Wrote modeling software for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. I had a virtually insignificant role, but the project’s chief scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics so it’s still cool!
