Hands-on CTO · AI product engineering

I turn complicated systems into useful software.

I connect product strategy, software architecture, and hands-on implementation, especially where AI meets established businesses.

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Santa Barbara, California · Working everywhere

About

Most people specialize. I synthesize.

I’ve spent more than 20 years building products across Rails, mobile, SaaS, commerce, online learning, and developer-facing AI.

My best work happens in the complicated middle: finding the real problem, making the system legible, and shipping a solution that works for the business and the people using it.

AI products
Revenue-critical platforms
Tools for teams
Native Apple apps

Selected work

A few things that made it out the door.

Enzo Reader for ChatGPT

Live product

Feedbin and NewsBlur inside ChatGPT with encrypted credentials, article sync, AI-powered recall, unread lists, summaries, and source review.

RSS · MCP · Rails · React

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OpenClaw Chief of Staff

Connected more than 25 operational systems for analytics, research, marketing work, sales-call analysis, and Slack-based access.

AI operations · 25+ systems

AI-powered page builder

Analyzes live marketing pages and creates on-brand variants, reducing new-page creation from two weeks to one day.

LLMs · Rails · AWS · Tailwind

MGS AI Toolkit

Customer-facing coaching tools with RAG, MCP, backlog workflows, chatbot integration, and teaching-material grounding.

RAG · MCP · Pinecone · Rails

Team Home

More than 75 collaborative exercises, instructor dashboards, simultaneous cohorts, and online training systems used by thousands.

Real-time learning · Rails · Vue

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VegasMate, EZ Golf League, and Enzo Reader for Apple Vision Pro

Long-running iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS products, including a one-million-plus-download travel app and a spatial RSS reader.

Swift · SwiftUI · visionOS

Experience

Leadership, with fingerprints on the code.

Now

Chief Technology Officer

Mountain Goat Software

Technology strategy and hands-on implementation for a digital training business where nearly all revenue depends on reliable systems.

2015-present

Co-founder

EZ Golf League

A Rails and mobile league platform covering scoring, scheduling, standings, messaging, APIs, hosting, and subscriptions.

2011-2016

Director of Technology

Foraker Labs

Web and native product delivery for Fortune 1000 clients and fast-moving small businesses.

Contact

Have a difficult system to untangle?

Full-time roles, fractional CTO work, and targeted AI product-engineering engagements are all fair game.

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