N 39°58′ · W 82°59′

COLUMBUS, OHIO

◉ PORTFOLIO · 2026

Jeff Hooton Engineer, builder, and occasional astrophotographer.

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.

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CURRENTLY

Head of Eng @ Hoopless
Co-founder @ Hoopless.ai
Head of Eng @ Sky High Visions

FOCUS

Healthcare platforms & AI tooling

STACK

TypeScript · React · Node · Postgres · Go

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§ 01

About

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 wearing a few hats: Head of Engineering at Hoopless, co-founder at Hoopless.ai, and Head of Engineering 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.

Outside of work I maintain a Go daemon that pre-computes context for AI coding agents across code, git, schemas, and HTTP traffic, a web scraper built for LLM pipelines, and a couple of 3D-printed telescope designs on MakerWorld.

§ 02

Selected work

2024 – PRESENT

$ pnpm verify
› typecheck      pass
› lint           pass
› test           112 suites
› rbac gates     pass
› phi redaction  pass
› audit log      pass
› build          pass
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2026 –CONTRACTTS + REACT

Healthcare Operations Platform

A clinical-quality and operations platform for outpatient behavioral-health programs, built as a TypeScript monorepo: React front end, Fastify API, Postgres via Drizzle. HL7 claim submission and X12-835 remittance parsing over an EMR and billing integration layer, eight role-scoped surfaces, and server-side redaction that strips financial fields and PHI before responses leave the API. Client under NDA.

TypeScriptReactNodePostgresHL7

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$ scry status
› repos indexed     4
› symbols cached    148,291
› avg query         2.1ms
› MCP server        running
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2024 –OSSGO + MCP

Scry

One Go daemon spanning five domains: code symbols, git history, database schemas, HTTP traffic, and a cross-domain graph that connects them. 23 MCP tools serving pre-computed answers in single-digit milliseconds. Replaces 30-50% of an AI agent's tool calls, and replaced three of my own earlier daemons.

GoMCPSCIPBadgerDB

Repository →

$ trawl --help
› intelligent tiered web scraping
›
› scrape      Scrape a single URL
› crawl       BFS-crawl a site
› batch       Scrape URLs from a file
› map         Enumerate every URL on a site
› sitemap     Discover URLs from sitemaps
› mcp         Run as MCP server
› resume      Resume interrupted job
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2026 –OSSCLI

Trawl

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.

GoScrapingAITooling

Repository →

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Other projects

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2026 Helm A native terminal workspace for managing projects, processes, and AI agents. One window with a sidebar of your projects and processes, a real terminal, and an M... Rust · TypeScript · Tauri → 2025 Cockpit A tmux-native terminal dashboard that aggregates live status from tmux sessions, git repos, Obsidian tasks, GitHub CI, and your calendar into a single at-a-glan... Go · TUI · tmux → 2026 expo-agent-bridge An MCP server and Expo dev plugin that gives AI coding agents runtime visibility into React Native/Expo apps on iOS Simulator. Screenshots, tap automation, navi... TypeScript · MCP · React Native →

§ 04

Writing

RECENT

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§ 05

Astrophotography

3D-PRINTED ASTROGRAPH

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.

NGC 7000 · Cygnus Wall 14h · HOO

IC 434 · Horsehead & Flame 9h · HOO

M42 · Orion & Running Man 12h · Broadband

NGC 2237 · Rosette 11h · HOO

IC 2177 · Seagull 10h · HOO

IC 1396 · Elephant's Trunk 9h · HOO

IC 5070 · Pelican 8h · HOO

IC 1795 · Fish Head 7h · HOO

M51 · Whirlpool 7h · Broadband

M13 · Hercules Cluster 4h · Broadband

M27 · Dumbbell 5h · HOO

§ 06

Contact

Let's talk about something specific.

The more concrete your note, the faster I can help. I answer everything thoughtfully within a few days.

jeff@hooton.codes →