Start with the problem
Customer calls, prototypes, and tight feedback loops—not slides about slides.
Senior Product Engineer · Bend, Oregon
I ship products people actually use— from discovery through production.
Twelve years building software across agency, platform, and founder work. I partner with product and design, own the stack when the feature needs it, and use AI-assisted engineering as a daily practice—not a gimmick.
Full-stack in practice · Front-end at heart · AI-native by default
Discovery→Build→Ship
About
Product engineer who closes the loop
I'm a senior product engineer who defaults to full-stack ownership with a front-end emphasis. React, TypeScript, and Next.js are what I ship today; Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB show up repeatedly across my career.
As founder and lead engineer at Plantfolio, I built an AI-native plant management platform—LLM vision, conversational UX, semantic search over 40,000+ species, and a production MCP server on the live stack—on a monorepo structured for agent-friendly iteration. Cursor (top 1% user) and Claude-class agents are part of my daily workflow; I still own architecture, tests, and what reaches production.
Before Plantfolio, I shipped at Tilia (payments and identity tooling), Bloom.wine (commerce for wineries on Shopify Plus), and Ply Interactive (agency work including React Native apps at major event scale). I lead through pairing, review, and clear execution—no direct reports, but real technical influence.
B.S. Finance, Santa Clara University — 2010
- 12+
- Years shipping software
- 40k+
- Species in Plantfolio catalog
- 90%+
- Test coverage at Tilia
- Top 1%
- Cursor power user
Approach
How I work
Ship in thin slices
Scope something shippable, get it in front of users, and measure whether it helped.
AI as leverage, not autopilot
Agents for speed across a typed, tested codebase; humans own architecture and production risk.
Own the whole feature
UI, APIs, data models, and the release checklist—whatever the product needs.
Selected work
Products I've built, scaled, and still care about
Plantfolio
2023 — PresentFounder & Lead Engineer
AI-native plant management: photo ID, Sage assistant, smart tagging, vector search, and a production MCP server so external AI clients can call platform tools. Full-stack Next.js monorepo with Clerk, Stripe, Algolia, and Neon Postgres—designed for both customers and coding agents.
- Next.js
- AI / RAG
- MCP
- TypeScript
- Monorepo
Bloom.wine
2020 — 2022Senior Software Engineer
Greenfield Next.js admin for winery clients on Shopify Plus. Rails GraphQL APIs, DatoCMS, and integrations across Stripe, Mailchimp, and Shipstation—much of the stack still in production.
- Next.js
- GraphQL
- Rails
- Commerce
Fintech · Payments
Digital payments platform
KYC, identity tooling, and platform APIs for regulated money movement
KYCGraphQLRisk tooling
Tilia
2023Senior Software Engineer
Payments platform tooling: KYC and identity-adjacent features, GraphQL API evolution, Chakra UI adoption, and a reporting dashboard shipped in the first two months on the team.
- React
- GraphQL
- Payments
- Design systems
Washington State Fair
Agency eraReact Native · Ply Interactive
Cross-platform mobile app in sustained multi-year production—very high traffic during fair season, from tens of thousands into hundreds of thousands of users cumulatively.
- React Native
- Mobile
- High traffic
Experience
A dozen years across agency, platform, and founder roles
Nov 2023 — Present
CurrentFounder & Lead Engineer
Plantfolio
AI-native product and engineering from zero to production—including an MCP server on the live stack.
- LLM vision, chat, and RAG search in production
- Production MCP server on the live stack (Model Context Protocol)
- MongoDB → PostgreSQL migration on Neon
- Garden-center signage automation case study
Jan — Aug 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Tilia
Payments platform tools team; GraphQL and design-system leadership.
- Chakra UI adoption across the team
- 90%+ unit test coverage
- Homepage reporting dashboard in first 60 days
Sep 2020 — Oct 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Bloom.wine
Greenfield admin and GraphQL APIs for winery commerce.
- Next.js admin still in wide production use
- Shopify Plus integrations at scale
- Informal tech lead via pairing and review
Aug 2019 — May 2020
Software Engineer II
Tune Inc
Marketplace automation pipelines and legacy React modernization.
- 10–15 min workflow → 10–30 sec automation
- 50% smaller production bundles
Jun 2014 — Jul 2019
Software Developer
Ply Interactive
Agency delivery: React Native, Rails, GraphQL, and commerce platforms.
- Multiple production React Native apps
- Bloom.wine product built internally
- GraphQL and Gatsby agency transition
Expertise
What I bring to a team
Product & craft
- Discovery → build → measure
- UX partnership with design
- B2B SaaS & commerce
- Technical leadership without direct reports
Frontend
- TypeScript
- React & Next.js
- React Native
- Tailwind CSS
- Design systems
Full-stack
- Node.js
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL & MongoDB
- GraphQL
- Stripe & payments
AI-native
- LLM features in production
- RAG & embeddings
- MCP server in production (Plantfolio)
- Cursor & agent workflows
- Agent-friendly monorepos
- OpenAI API & AI SDK
Contact
Let's build something worth shipping
Open to senior product engineering roles, founder-adjacent work, and conversations about AI-native product development. Based in Bend, Oregon; remote-friendly.
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