I’ve spent over a decade inside large engineering teams — insurance systems, commerce platforms, and high-traffic media properties. I now work directly with teams that need clear technical judgment, steady delivery, and someone who can stay close to both the code and the product.
My career has been spent in the kind of engineering organizations where mistakes are expensive: insurance systems processing claims at national scale, a B2B commerce platform serving Macy’s, Nordstrom and Saks, and news properties running across international editions on web, mobile and AMP.
Those environments teach habits that are hard to pick up anywhere else — how to design a system that survives real traffic, how to ship changes without breaking what already works, and how to make sense of a large codebase you didn’t write.
They also move slowly, and not every team needs a twelve-person consultancy. So I work independently. You get the engineering habits from those places, applied to the size of problem actually in front of you — from the person writing the code.
No account managers. No junior engineers learning on your budget. You talk to me, and we work through it clearly.
I work alongside your team, keep the path clear, and stay close to the code. The goal is useful progress, not process for its own sake.
Idea → Working Demo in Weeks
You have a rough idea, a concept, or a question you want to test. I help you build a working prototype quickly — not just screens, but enough real behavior for people to respond to honestly.
Ideal for: Founders validating ideas · Pre-seed / Seed startups · Product teams testing new features
Prepare a Validated Product for Real Use
You’ve validated the idea and now need it to hold up for real users. I take prototypes and MVPs — whether I built them or someone else did — and make them stable, maintainable, and easier for your team to own.
Ideal for: Post-validation startups · Series A teams · Products with growing user bases
Modernize Without Disrupting the Business
Your platform has grown beyond its original design. Performance is slipping, the codebase is hard to maintain, and adding new features takes too long. I help you improve it in measured steps, without a risky rewrite.
Ideal for: Established companies · E-commerce platforms · Platforms with technical debt
I bring the engineering experience, but we solve the problem together. I care about the code, the product, and whether the work is actually useful to your team.
No account managers, no junior proxies. The code and technical decisions come from the person you speak with.
A two-week prototype and a larger platform need different amounts of work, but both deserve clear thinking and careful execution.
I’ve worked on platforms supporting large orders, regional operations, and growing teams. The code should serve the work, not become the work.
I can work inside your Slack, GitHub, Jira, standups, or planning rhythm. The closer I am to the context, the better the technical decisions become.
My background spans Lightspeed Commerce, HuffPost and IRVINS. I bring the useful habits from those environments without importing all the ceremony.
The work ends with understandable code, useful documentation, and a team that knows what was built. No black boxes, no forced dependency on me.
Clear scope, steady communication, and working software you can inspect along the way.
We spend 30–60 minutes on your product, goals, constraints, and timeline. No presentation — just listening and asking the right questions.
I put together a clear scope of work, timeline, and pricing. Specific deliverables, milestones, and what finished should mean, all in plain language.
I join your workflow — Slack, GitHub, Jira, or whatever you use. Weekly syncs, async updates, and enough visibility that nobody has to guess.
Clean code, documentation, and a knowledge transfer session. Your team owns everything and understands the important parts.
A product I shipped myself, plus a decade inside other engineering teams. Each one reflects a real system, a real constraint, and a practical problem to solve.
Founder & Full-Stack Engineer
iOS available now · Android coming soon
Lead Engineer
Lead Engineer
Software Engineer
EyeEat is my own product. The remaining companies refer to my prior employment history — they are not clients of my independent practice, and their inclusion does not imply endorsement.
I choose tools for the project, the team, and the maintenance path, not just for what is popular at the moment.
Frontend
Backend
Database
Cloud & DevOps
Testing
Integrations
Whether you have a prototype to validate, a product to prepare for real users, or an older platform that needs care, start with a free 30-minute conversation.
Send me a note about what you’re building and we’ll find a time. Tell me the problem, the timeline, and where you’re stuck — that’s enough to start.
Remote-first · Working across time zones · Available for short engagements and longer team support