About
I’m a full-stack developer with 18 years of iOS and web development experience. I spend most of my time designing and developing iOS apps, which I’ve been doing since I got my first iPhone 4 in 2010. I occasionally wear a system administration and business hat, with experience at a number of early stage companies.
I ship polished products from zero to millions of people, combining technical excellence with customer-obsessed design.
When I’m not on my laptop, I’m running around my backyard with my wife and kids or building furniture in my garage.
Work Experience
- Echo 2024-present
- Building voice-first AI training app
- Fine-tuned personalized AI models from conversational data
- Kettle 2023-2024
- iOS voice messaging app with AI transcription and organization
- Built custom audio processing pipeline for studio-like voice quality
- Integrated Live Activities for real-time listening experience
- Moment Founder → Head of Engineering & Design • 2013-2021
- Screen time tracker scaled from 0 to 9 million customers, with 2.5M active customers at the peak
- Featured as App of the Day by Apple, covered on JRE, NYT, Today Show
- Successfully exited to strategic buyer (Tim Kendall, former Pinterest President)
- Managed team of 7 engineers and designers
- Focus 2015-2018
- Built invisible iOS app driving detection using Core Motion and Core Location
- Prevented 250K+ instances of distracted driving
- Tog 2013-2014
- Built wedding photography platform with blazing-fast direct-to-S3 uploads
- Handled 8TB+ of photo storage with 99.9% uptime
Technical Skills
- Languages: SwiftUI Ruby on Rails Python
- Web: Ruby on Rails, HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets
- AI/ML: Fine-tuning (LoRA), OpenAI/Claude API, PyTorch, Whisper, audio processing
- Design: Ideas, sharpie-and-paper
- Infrastructure: Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS (S3, EC2), GitHub Actions, CI
Education
- Duquesne University Class of 2011
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship