I build AI tooling for developers and full-stack applications for clients. Away from the keyboard, I design precision telescopes, 3D print them, and point them at things that are very far away.
I got into engineering through marketing, found myself more interested in building the tools than using them, and never looked back.
These days I'm a partner at Sky High Visions, where I manage a small team delivering across 30+ client engagements while building full-stack applications, Shopify apps, and custom automations as an IC. Previously I was at Loop, building post-purchase tooling for 5,000+ DTC brands, and WillowTree, doing platform engineering for Fortune 500 clients.
The stuff I find most interesting happens after hours: a suite of Go daemons that replace half of an AI agent's tool calls, a CLI orchestrator for running multiple Claude Code instances in parallel, and a couple of 3D-printed telescope designs that I've published on MakerWorld. Most of my good ideas come at 3 a.m., staring through a telescope at something that hasn't changed in a billion years.
$ scry status › repos indexed 4 › symbols cached 148,291 › avg query 2.1ms › MCP server running $ █
Four Go daemons (Scry, Tome, Lore, Flume) that pre-compute code intelligence, database schemas, git history, and HTTP traffic, then serve it all in single-digit milliseconds over MCP. Replaces 30-50% of an AI agent's tool calls.
Repository →A single Go binary for tiered web scraping, BFS crawling, schema extraction, and clean markdown. Polite by default with opt-in evasion tiers, per-host tier learning, persistent job frontier, and structured JSONL output ready for LLM pipelines. No API key, no recurring cost.
Repository →Claude Code spends most of its time finding things, not doing things. I built four Go daemons that pre-compute code intelligence, database schemas, git history, and HTTP traffic, then serve it all in single-digit milliseconds over MCP.
5 minClaude Code spends 30-50% of every session just finding code. I built a local daemon that pre-computes a semantic index of every repo and answers symbol queries in single-digit milliseconds.
5 minA single Go binary for tiered web scraping, BFS crawling, schema extraction, and clean markdown. No API key, no recurring cost, polite by default, with opt-in stealth tiers for the sites that fight back.
5 minEvery image in this gallery was shot through a telescope I designed in Fusion 360 and printed in PET-CF. Here's what I pointed it at, what I learned, and what I'd reshoot.
5 minWe built internal agency tooling where the AI agent is the primary user, not the human. What agentic-first actually looks like when you're managing real client work.
5 minFour Go daemons (Scry, Tome, Lore, Flume) that give AI coding agents pre-computed context over MCP. All open source, all actively maintained.
Two astrograph designs published on MakerWorld: a 114mm f/3.95 and a 150mm f/5. Designed in Fusion 360, printed in PET-CF.
Running engineering across 30+ client engagements. Laravel, Vue, Shopify, WordPress. Managing a team of five while still shipping code daily.
Shooting through the 150mm astrograph. Recent captures: Cygnus Wall (14h), Horsehead & Flame (9h), Rosette in narrowband (11h).
Writing about AI tooling, multi-agent patterns, telescope design, and the engineering behind all of it. Posts live in the same repo as the site.
Interested in AI tooling, developer experience, and anything involving building instruments that make other work better.
Every image here was shot through a telescope I designed in Fusion 360 and printed in PET-CF. Most are LRGB or narrowband composites stacked from 4-14 hours of 300-second subs.
The more concrete your note, the faster I can help. I answer everything thoughtfully within a few days.
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