brilliant fantastic // for hire

I ship brilliant software.

Twenty-plus years of building products people and companies actually use. Available for principal engineering, technical leadership, and consulting.

What I do

01
Product engineering

End-to-end building and shipping. From the sketch through the production postmortem.
02
Elixir & Ruby & JavaScript

10+ years of Elixir & 15+ years of Ruby in production. Rails, Phoenix, LiveView, Hotwire, ES6, and OTP-shaped problems welcome.
03
AI & agents

LLM applications, agent workflows, evals, and prompt engineering. New tools and workflows, used thoughtfully. I know how to talk to robots.
04
Founding-team mode

I move fast in two-to-five-person teams. Cofounder energy, without the equity drama. I prefer to own the product work and be an engineer on the team.

Selected work

ClickFunnels

I worked on main application with a concentration on the payment systems and affiliate application. Built with Rails and TypeScript.
FlexPro Grip

I built an iOS application using React Native and an Elixir-powered backend for MLB pitchers to capture their training data. The application interacted with a custom device via Bluetooth.
OfferLab

I built one of the first payment cloning systems on the web. This allowed for a single credit card transaction to purchase a bundle of products from various merchants. Built on Rails with Hotwire.

How I work

01
Swallow the frog.

Shipping beats theorizing. The first version teaches you what the right version is. Reduce the unknown as fast as possible.
02
Small teams. Real outcomes.

Two senior people who trust each other will out-deliver six who are still figuring out the new development workflows.
03
The boring code is the right code.

Cleverness is a tax future-you will pay with interest. Most of the time, the obvious answer is the answer.