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

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