Product leader and AI-native software engineer. I solo-founded an AI fintech startup, pair-programming with AI to ship 60,000+ lines of production code. Off the clock, I build spinning LED displays and rip custom-built racing drones through the mountains.
The toy chest
Small web tools. No login, nothing to install — they run right in the tab.Selected work
Two decades of products — most recently built one engineer deep, with AI.Blue Taka
2024 — PresentFounder & Technical Lead
Solo-built a fintech platform through AI pair programming — 60,000+ lines of production code: MCP servers and AI operational tooling, LLM-powered categorization, and reactive browser automation.
Costco Travel
2024 — 2025Senior Product Owner (Contract)
Brought in to finish a decade-long platform migration, scaling the team from 8 to 30+ across three parallel workstreams and 300+ work items powering a billion-dollar business.
Indeed
2015 — 2022Senior Technical Product Manager
Built the Identity Platform team from scratch — 250M+ accounts, grew authenticated sessions 118%, and drove P95 auth latency from 1000ms to 15ms. Indeed's first engineer-to-PM transition.
After hours
Where the soldering iron and the antenna analyzer come out.Spinning LED art display
ESP32 · FreeRTOS · custom hardware
Projects generative art into thin air — custom 3D-printed mechanics, AI-computed rotor balancing, and microsecond-precision real-time code at 2000+ RPM.
Amateur radio · N7CRK
HF · antenna design · GNU Radio
Worked all seven continents, Antarctica included, from a downtown high-rise — on makeshift HF antennas dangling 90 feet down to the street.