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I'm a technical co-founder who's spent the last 8+ years building products. I've worked everywhere from seed-stage startups to Panera Bread's internal platforms serving 100k+ users a month, and I've founded three companies along the way.
Two were acquired — PocketStreamer and PodcastDb. The third, podanalyst.com, is current. Across them I've built native iOS apps, hybrid mobile platforms, semantic search engines, podcast hosting infrastructure, billing systems, and just about everything in between.
Today I split my time between consulting in San Francisco and co-founding podanalyst.com. Open to one more conversation with the right team.
Software Engineer (Consulting) · SF
Current consulting engagement. On-site in San Francisco.
Senior Engineer (Founding) · SF
Founding engineer. Led a team of three to deliver an AI/ML-powered ad pricing platform.
Founder · Acquired
Solo founder. Built an automated podcast database — the most accurate third-party index of Apple Podcasts in the industry. Acquired.
Senior Engineer · St. Louis
Primary FE dev on a labor management platform with 100k+ users. Hybrid mobile (Ionic, Angular). Trained teams. Cut OpEx.
Founder · Acquired
Native iOS app for internet radio broadcasters. Acquired by Radio.co in 10 months.
Software Engineer · St. Louis
iOS dev at AB-InBev. 7× perf improvement. Also shipped greenfield Ionic for FinLocker.
Founding Engineer · Pittsburgh
Founding engineer. Complete rewrite of a 1990s internet radio platform. Shipped in 2 months.
1. Shipping beats perfect. A working ugly thing beats a beautiful thing that doesn't exist.
2. Performance is a feature. Users feel 7× the speed in ways they can't articulate.
3. Junior devs need real feedback, not tutorials. Train in public.
4. The best tech stack is the one your team actually understands.
5. Most rewrites are a mistake. Most refactors aren't.
6. A senior technical partner writes code. They also help make the calls that aren't about code.
When I'm not shipping, I'm usually outside. I mountain bike the Santa Cruz mountains, surf Ocean Beach when the swell is right, and over-engineer my espresso setup. I read mostly sci-fi and history. I have strong opinions about pizza.
THAT'S THE STORY.
WANNA WRITE THE NEXT CHAPTER?