About Me
Full-stack engineer based in San Diego. I've been doing freelance web development since 2010. In 2017 I founded RipeMetrics and scaled it to 50+ enterprise clients. Now I build production software and agentic AI systems for clients who need things that actually work.
The Journey
Spent seven years in B2B sales and cause marketing, learning how businesses actually buy software and what makes customers stick around.
Founded RipeMetrics and graduated from the CSD16 accelerator program, a venture capital-backed program for early-stage software companies.
Built the product from scratch while leading product development, managing teams, and shaping company vision.
At RipeMetrics, led complete technical refactor from Laravel Livewire to React/Next.js, reducing network response times by 6 seconds and improving overall system performance.
Built AI-powered chatbot with OpenAI, MySQL, and vector databases (Pinecone/Chroma). Created website content extraction system reducing client onboarding from 20 minutes to 2 minutes.
Scaled platform to 50+ enterprise clients processing thousands of customer interactions daily, while maintaining 95%+ system uptime.
Completed AI Engineering Bootcamp (Maven) and LLM Engineering course (AI Makerspace), going deep on transformer architectures, fine-tuning, and RAG systems.
Now building client projects: a Next.js 15 wellness platform for AlignSD with Sanity CMS and structured data, and Scorpion Percussion's e-commerce stack with Turborepo, tRPC, and React Native.
Focused on agentic engineering — wiring LLMs, tool-use, and structured outputs into systems that run autonomously.
Education & Continuous Learning
UC San Diego Extended Studies
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Customer Experience Leadership Course - Explored strategic importance of CX, evaluation methods, and best practices from industry leaders like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla.
Stanford University Online
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Technology Entrepreneurship - Studied entrepreneurship process for high-impact enterprises, team formation, and Silicon Valley startup ecosystem.
Claude Code for Real Engineers
AI Hero - Apr 2026
Cohort-based course on production-grade AI-assisted engineering with Claude Code. Agent steering, TDD feedback loops, autonomous agents with Docker sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
Master the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Kent C. Dodds - Sept 2025
Intensive 2-week cohort on MCP fundamentals, advanced features, UI development, and OAuth 2.1 authorization for AI-native applications.
AI Engineering Bootcamp
Maven - Mar 2025
10-week intensive bootcamp on building production-ready AI agent applications, including RAG, fine-tuning, and multi-agent systems.
LLM Engineering - Foundations to SLMs
AI Makerspace - Nov 2024
6-week course on transformer architectures, fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, QLoRA), model alignment (DPO, RLHF), and SLM optimization.
How I Work
My path from sales to engineering means I build software with the end user in mind, not just the spec. Seven years of selling enterprise software taught me how businesses actually buy and what makes them stick around — that instinct doesn't go away when you switch to the terminal. I ship fast, communicate clearly, and treat every project like it's my own product.
Technologies I Work With
Frontend
Backend & Database
AI & ML
CMS & Tools
DevOps & Testing
Mobile & Monorepo
Emerging Tech
Beyond Code
When I'm not building you'll find me rock climbing around San Diego or hunting for rare vinyl records.