staff applied AI engineer / independent builder
Staff engineer responsible for building and launching high-priority applied AI systems across Forge. I partner with enterprise AI leadership and business teams to take opportunities from problem definition through architecture, implementation, deployment, and adoption. Focus areas include LLM applications, agentic systems, retrieval and context engineering, cloud infrastructure, and reusable AI platform capabilities.
Solo developer of MakeEmoji.com, the world's most popular AI-powered custom animated emoji maker product, used by over 2 million creators and businesses.
Selected professional history.
Startup building the next-generation legislative tracker.
Pro-housing advocacy group that fought to upzone the state and won.
Built software for industrial facility operators at AWS and features for >150 million users at Goodreads.
Second engineering hire and tech lead for a custom in-house CMS that reduced turnaround on client projects by 90%.
Tech lead for a custom in-house CMS that reduced turnaround on client projects by 80%.
Built WordPress websites for over a dozen local, state, and congressional political campaigns.
Built WordPress website and designed campaign literature and mail pieces.
