Engineer & Product Builder. Building working systems from fuzzy problems.

You don't bring automation to a job. You bring it to a process. The role most companies haven't hired for yet, and why I'm built for it.

AI made it almost free to look like a craftsperson. The Japanese idea of shokunin, lifelong devotion to a craft, is more useful now than it has ever been.

AI slop is what you get when you let the model run without much wrangling. In R&D, that trade is often worth it: speed and cheap learning now, cleanup once the shape stops moving.

Engineering is no longer the hardest part of building software. The compounding hire now is a product thinker who chooses what to build, in what order, and why.

I built a private UI kit called Couch Kit so coding agents stop improvising my interfaces and I can ship consistent product UI without re-deciding every detail.