Founding engineer for early-stage startups.
I embed with teams that shipped fast, accumulated debt, and now need someone to make the stack scale without slowing them down. I clear the critical path, set up the infrastructure, and help hire the engineers who take it from there.
Recent engagements
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Withfriends
Consolidated eight legacy repos into one monorepo. Cut bookstore onboarding from 4 hours of back-office work to 1, fully automated.
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Finny
Tech lead on an AI prospecting platform (YC S24). Shipped a greenfield news aggregation service, led a multi-month editor migration, and stood up E2E testing and trunk-based deploys.
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Cassi
Built the alpha and beta of an AI property manager from zero. Contributed to a $1M pre-seed raise and recruited the first five engineers.
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Rooted Agriculture
Shipped the platform for a regenerative-agriculture AI copilot. Cut backend build times 100x with CI/CD work that unblocked demos and local dev.
Availability
Two engagements a year, six months at a time. At month six, we look at what got built and decide whether to keep going. You can book both if you insist. If that sounds like a fit, grab a slot.