Product engineer with a civil engineering PhD.

I'm a product engineer, and I mean something specific by that: I find what's painful for people, dig into the data, design and build something that solves it, then keep iterating until it genuinely fits. That's been the shape of nearly all my work. These days I'm most alive building tools for other developers — I'm a little obsessed with developer experience — and the tool I lean on hardest is my own: Shipyard.

The product instinct started early, and far from a keyboard. I came up through construction before civil engineering — a few years managing water treatment plant builds, then designing $40M–$200M industrial facilities — before a PhD at CU Boulder that was really user research: I put eye tracking glasses on pipefitters to understand how they extract information from construction drawings, built time-hulls and VisualEyes (open-source) to analyze the data, and published seven peer-reviewed papers. Along the way I built and sold DirtPlan, a construction-submittal SaaS, solo.

I moved into software full-time in 2019, and the job hasn't really changed since: talk to users, watch the data, own the feature from the first conversation through deploy and the production monitoring that keeps it healthy. At NCCER I ran focus groups with construction craft professionals, built the analytics stack the executives ran on, and shipped Single Sign-On across four user-facing apps — the feature our users asked for most, by a wide margin. At SalesRiver I led six engineers from Seed through Series A — white-labeling the platform unlocked $800K+ in new ARR and spun up ten single-tenant apps we later consolidated into one multi-tenant SaaS in a single hour of scheduled downtime, zero incidents. Today I build full-stack at Hudl, across web and mobile.

Most of my favorite projects began as tools I built for myself — Shipyard, Lightwork, DirtPlan, Express Delphi, and VisualEyes. I used to love platform engineering and hand-rolling DevOps; now that so much of it can be automated, I'd rather build the thing that does the automating. Off-hours I serve on the board of Enrich, a Madison County, KY social enterprise that employs people with alternative resumes — recovery, homelessness, reentry. Most of this site, fittingly, was built by Shipyard rather than by me.