// work
Ten years shipping production software.
I spent a decade as a software engineer, the last few years building production AI at enterprise scale: agents, context engineering, and LLM features. Today I build for my own companies, where the work is the automation that makes a small team feel bigger than it is, plus a handful of clients through Practical Works.
10 years
shipping production software
5 companies
healthcare, education, crypto, fintech
Founder
building on my own stack
// experience
The track record.
Practical Works
NowCo-founder
2026 to Present
Remote
Co-founded an AI assessment and consulting studio that does what its name says: practical work that ships, no hype. From startups to mature companies, we find where AI actually fits and build the quick wins that pay for themselves.
Assessments turn into working pilots in four days, not four months, with the hours saved and the cost laid out in plain dollars.
Breezy Keys
NowAI Engineer and Co-founder
Oct 2023 to Present
Tampa Bay, FL
Co-founded a short-term rental management company and built the AI systems that run it: guest communication, dynamic pricing, and maintenance, all on a stack I operate myself.
Automated messaging now handles roughly 80% of routine guest inquiries, cutting response times from hours to minutes.
Polly
Senior Software Engineer, AI Team
Oct 2024 to Jan 2026
Remote
Built production AI features for an enterprise mortgage and finance platform: real-time response streaming, retrieval pipelines, and intelligent LLM routing.
Shipped a citation interface that surfaced sources on every AI answer, making the system's reasoning auditable for the teams relying on it.
QuickNode
Software Engineer
Jul 2022 to Oct 2023
Remote
Core contributor to the QuickNode Marketplace launch, from billing and partner payouts to a load-testing microservice.
Onboarded more than 20 launch partners and built the Stripe integration that automated their payouts.
VitalSource
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2017 to Mar 2022
San Francisco, CA
Co-led a four-person team modernizing the Verba faculty platform with GraphQL and TypeScript at university scale.
Delivered the adoption system used by 290+ universities and rebuilt logging across beta and production.
Kipu Health
Software Engineer
May 2015 to Oct 2016
Miami, FL
Built scheduling and background-processing systems for a healthcare platform serving thousands of patients.
Eliminated up to two hours of background-task wait time and cut medical-form render time by 40%.
// expertise
What I build with.
AI and ML
Languages
Frontend
Backend
Data and cloud
Education and recognition
Boston University. BA, Economics and International Relations, cum laude
2014Correlation One (DS4A). Data Engineering certificate
2023Google for Startups. Gen AI: Building AI Agents
2024QuickNode. HERO award for outstanding team and project contribution
2023Airbnb. Superhost across a five-property portfolio, Guest Favorite within four months
Ongoing// services
Work with me.
Through Practical Works, I take on a small number of engagements for teams that want AI to earn its keep. The same engineering that runs my own companies, pointed at yours.
AI assessment
Where AI actually fits, and where it doesn't.
A focused audit of your operation that ends in a ranked list of quick wins you can act on, not a deck you file away.
Quick-win builds
Working pilots in days, not months.
I build the highest-leverage automation first and get it running on your real work fast, so you see value before committing to more.
Fractional AI engineering
Senior build help, on demand.
Ongoing help for teams shipping agents, context engineering, or LLM features into production, from someone who has done it at scale.