Open to senior IC roles

I build custom applications and developer tooling.

Nine years in, mostly Laravel and TypeScript. 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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Now: Head of Engineering, Sky High Visions & Hoopless
30+ client engagements, shipping as an IC
Previously: Loop Returns, post-purchase for 5,000+ brands
WillowTree, platform for Fortune 500
Stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue, Inertia
TypeScript, React, Node, Go, Postgres

Selected work

Three of thirty engagements

2026/Healthcare/NDA

Clinical operations platform for outpatient behavioral health

A clinical-quality and operations platform 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.

TypeScriptReactFastifyDrizzleHL7X12-835

The full detail is on the resume →

Surfaces	8 role-scoped
Claim formats	HL7, X12-835
PHI redaction	Server-side
CI test suites	112
Team	2 engineers

Go / Open source Repository ↗

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 to 50 percent of an AI agent's tool calls, and replaced three of my own earlier daemons.

$ scry status
4 repos / 148,291 symbols cached / 2.1ms median
$ scry serve --mcp
23 tools ready ok

Go / Open source Repository ↗

Trawl

A single Go binary for tiered web scraping. It escalates from plain fetch to headless only when a page demands it, and emits clean markdown built for LLM pipelines rather than for browsers. No API key, no service to run, one file to ship.

$ trawl --help
scrape · crawl · batch · map
sitemap · mcp · resume

Currently building

My own products

childscribe.comBeta

ChildScribe

A memory-keeping app for parents of young children. Once a week a short voice conversation with an AI interviewer draws out what your kid actually said, then turns it into a private journal entry and, when you want one, a printed memory book. Laravel and Inertia on the web, Expo on iOS and Android, Stripe for subscriptions.

LaravelInertiaVueExpoStripe

phcleaningco.comLive

PH Cleaning Co

My own house cleaning company in Columbus, and the software that runs it. The site prices a home in about fifteen seconds instead of routing people to a sales call, with published flat rates, service and service-area pages built for local search, and a separate operations app for scheduling and dispatch.

AstroCloudflare WorkersTypeScriptLocal SEO

Open source archive

All repositories ↗

Year	Name	Description	Stack	Link
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 MCP server so your agents can see your entire stack.	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-glance TUI. Create and save new sessions from the dashboard, quick capture tasks, toggle todos, and a signals panel that tells you what needs attention right now.	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, navigation state, store inspection, network logs, and console output, all exposed as MCP tools.	TypeScript, MCP, React Native	↗

Writing

All 28 posts →

2026-08-31 I Built a Knowledge Graph for Everything I Work On Every codebase, debugging session, agent run, and architecture decision leaves useful knowledge behind. Scry turns that trail into a graph that the next agent can query instead of rediscovering it. 7 min 2026-07-27 The Best MCP Servers for Developers in 2026: A Curated Guide There are hundreds of MCP servers now. Most aren't worth your time. These are the ones I use, have built, or would recommend to another developer who ships code daily. 8 min 2026-07-23 Building an MCP Server for Git Intelligence: How I Built Lore Git data is rich but unstructured. Lore is an MCP server that pre-indexes blame, history, and co-change patterns into BadgerDB and serves them as seven focused tools, giving agents structured git intelligence instead of raw CLI output. 8 min 2026-07-19 Setting Up MCP Servers with Claude Desktop and Claude Code A practical walkthrough for configuring MCP servers in Claude Desktop and Claude Code: where the config lives, what the JSON looks like, and how to debug when things don't connect. 8 min 2026-07-15 Building an MCP Server for Code Intelligence: How I Built Scry The protocol layer of an MCP server is trivial. The hard part is designing tool interfaces that agents use well: narrow tools, precise descriptions, structured returns, and sub-10ms latency that changes agent behavior. 11 min

Astrophotography

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 to 14 hours of 300-second subs.

All 11 targets →

NGC 7000 · Cygnus Wall ~14h · HOO

IC 434 · Horsehead & Flame ~9h · HOO + broadband blend

M42 · Orion & Running Man ~12h · Broadband

3D-printed 150mm f/5 Newtonian · ASI533MC Pro Columbus, Ohio · Bortle 5

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