He writes production code and runs production systems, and he does not delegate the parts that decide the outcome. Every platform in the directory above was designed, built, shipped, and operated by him directly, and he owns the whole stack beneath them end to end: the physical servers, the container platform, the databases, identity and sign in, transactional mail, source control with a security scan on every push, build and release, monitoring, and backups. One owner, every layer.
The artificial intelligence in the platforms is his own work as well: a private search assistant, an AI newsroom with fact checks and multiple perspectives, a self hosted voice engine, a 349 mechanism defender with six autonomous agents, language model orchestration across providers with failover, content moderation, and a forecasting system. This is because a given system that decides what a customer sees, or what a threat is, should be understood by the person who answers for it, down to the model.
Security is a starting condition. The standard is not negotiable. The platforms are private by default, encrypted in transit, reviewed before anything reaches production, and scanned on every push, and two of them carry a regulatory bar on top of that: Steer Emotions is built HIPAA compliant, and My Rightful Data is built GDPR and CCPA compliant. The products promise people ownership of their own data; the engineering behind them will be held to that promise. How they run stays in house; what they do is one click away.
Competencies
Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Docker, Git, Cloudflare, CI/CD pipelines, Amazon AWS, Linux systems administration, TypeScript and React on Next.js, Python, full stack work, end to end system diagnostics and evaluation strategies, systems architecture, security engineering and vulnerability management, secrets management, language model integration and orchestration, retrieval and search systems, text to speech systems, identity and passwordless authentication, certificate and DNS automation, email deliverability, container image builds, and terminal based development.