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 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 suite of Go daemons that pre-compute context for AI coding agents, a web scraper built for LLM pipelines, and a couple of 3D-printed telescope designs on MakerWorld.
$ 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 →$ 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 $ █
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 →Every existing MCP tutorial gets you to a hello-world stdio server and stops. This is the rest of it: SDK choice, transports, testing, production patterns, and what I learned shipping four MCP servers that handle real workloads.
24 minClaude 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.
21 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.
22 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.
24 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.
11 minEvery 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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