I build the systems organizations trust - and make them feel human.
For 30 years, from the Fortune 100 to small nonprofits and startups, I've built tech that's human-centric, makes your day easier, and just works.
I've built hundreds of projects. Here are some of my current favorites:
Human-centered design
Built for human beings, not machines
Designing for real human beings, and real workflows, including people navigating disability, illness, or neurodivergent brains.
The Good Years Project
Bank of Health
Treat your health like wealth.
A personal health app that turns decades of longevity research into a simple ledger: see exactly how many healthy hours each choice - a workout, a drink, a call to a friend - adds or subtracts from your life.
The Good Years Project
Values Compass
Find your values.
A guided exercise that surfaces the handful of core values quietly driving your decisions — and turns them into something you can actually navigate your life by.
UCSD · Medical research
Joint Count Project
Accessible health tracking for patients with advanced arthritis.
Flipped the script on arthritis reporting by building a patient-centered, touch UI in 2002. Reduced miscommunication between doctors and patients, and improved outcomes. Co-authored peer-reviewed research that came out of the work.
Aquameta
Bespoke Picking UI
Warehouse workers on rollerblades.
Designed, tested, and built a picking system for one of the largest natural foods wholesalers for warehouse workers with minimal tech skills, running around with carts, barcode scanners, and were wearing rollerblades. It worked, and it kept up with them.
Full-stack, end-to-end builds.
Yep, I can build that.
All those years of experience mean that I can handle end-to-end builds that usually need a full team. I have deep experience with everything from UX and UI to architecture and full-stack builds to databases and devops - and everything in between. Here are a few of the dozens of projects I've built solo, end-to-end.
Non-profit CRM + donor + volunteer management
GoodCloud
The all-in-one platform for small nonprofits.
Built a full CRM with donor management, volunteer coordination, and donations - everything a small nonprofit needs to run, in one place. My co-founder Tom and I built it in four months, open-sourced a stack of libraries from it, and made a lot of small organizations very happy.
High-Stakes, Multi-Stakeholder Decisions
Ox Intel
Beautiful AI decision-making for high-stakes calls.
A decision-making tool built to augment human judgment on hard, high-stakes questions. Used by national and local governments, and high-compliance companies.
Engineered for security and confidentiality, even running on air-gapped, remote servers.
Campus-wide chat that builds community
BuddyUp
Help students make connections, find community, and succeed.
A university-wide chat for connecting with peers, finding study groups, and helping students handle the initial shock and isolation of university life. Especially helpful for first generation folks and transfer students, the app was deployed university-wide across several campuses, handled tens of thousands of chats, classes, and groups at once.
Open-source Scientific Journal Platform
Lyonia
A free, open-source platform for publishing peer-reviewed scientific research.
Built a platform that supported the full lifecycle of scientific publication, enabling organizations to start a new publication, handle submissions, assign out peer reviews, approve, edit, and publish.
Four years building high-stakes, real-world AI solutions
AI that augments people, instead of replacing them
I've built AI at the highest levels, and the goal has always been the same: make the humans smarter and faster, never replace them.
Technical Lead · Fortune 100
Valence
AI leadership coaching, trusted in the Fortune 100.
Led engineering, architecture, and UX to turn a rough proof-of-concept into a secure, scalable, production-ready AI coaching platform used inside the largest companies on Earth - blending generative AI with traditional software so it was reliable enough to trust.
Agentic research and analysis
Front of the Napkin
A real answer to "should I pursue this idea?"
Go through a quick discovery conversation, and then Front of the Napkin will do detailed research on your business idea, side hustle, or career change - competitors, search demand, pricing, market gaps, then write a clear report, and a set of summary cards and next steps to get you moving.
AI that augments intelligence
Nisos
An AI research partner for intelligence analysts.
Designed and built a bespoke, AI-powered system to help analysts combat everything from disinformation campaigns to school shooting threats — architected end to end, with a custom UI, MCP connectors, and integrations into the desktop tools they already use. Worked side-by-side with the end users to deeply understand the problem, and design a solution together.
Open source · 2013
Will
A friendly, teachable AI assistant - a decade before ChatGPT.
One of the first cross-platform chatbot assistants, open-sourced and loved by developer teams. Easy to teach, easy to talk to, and genuinely helpful. I've been building friendly AI for normal people for a decade before the current LLM hype train came along.
For thirty years, leading organizations have trusted me to build and to lead.
Have a project I might be able to help you with? Please get in touch - I'd love to hear from you. [email protected]