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I build web that converts and ship software that makes AI useful.

Business software designed for AIO/GEO, and the agentic systems behind it.

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Design System · 2026

A Design System That Checks Itself

The design system behind this site, published as a live page. Tokens read from the stylesheet, every component rendered from its real source, a working dashboard, and the checks that keep it honest.

Design System Astro Tailwind 4
Charity Marketing Site + Ticketing · 2026

Charity Concert with Stripe

A homepage and self-service ticketing site for an outdoor charity benefit concert — a custom Stripe integration with server-side price integrity, Turnstile bot protection, and a signature-verified webhook, built with Astro, React, and Netlify Functions.

Charity Project Nonprofit Full-Stack
Manufacturing Intelligence SaaS · 2025 — Present

Swip Tools — Manufacturing Intelligence SaaS

Cofounded and shipped a multi-tenant SaaS that gives manufacturing cells live hour-by-hour targets, part-weighted standards, and loss analysis — on Astro 5, TanStack, Drizzle, Neon, and Cloudflare Workers.

Production Multi-Tenant SaaS Full-Stack

What I do

Web growth

I lead web development and design, from growth strategy to the front-end stack. SEO, AIO/GEO, CRO and A/B testing.

Astro · WordPress (Sage) · Webflow · HubSpot

Agentic AI

Agentic features built on Claude and MCP. Deterministic IO around the LLM, a full audit trail, and a policy layer non-engineers can own.

Claude API · MCP · RAG · Pinecone · Claude Code

Product engineering

Cofounder of Swip Tools, multi-tenant manufacturing intelligence SaaS. Design system, marketing site, admin and operator UI, bootstrapped on Astro, TanStack Start, Drizzle and Cloudflare Workers.

TypeScript · TanStack · Drizzle · Tailwind · Cloudflare Workers · Neon Postgres

FAQ

Frequently asked

I'm Manager of Web Development & Design at DISCO. I lead web growth strategy, design workflow, and the front-end stack, lead a cross-functional team of developers and designers, and work on AI-assisted workflows. The work lives at the seam of marketing engineering, design leadership, and AI integration.

Swip Tools is the manufacturing-intelligence SaaS I co-founded. It delivers live hour-by-hour targets, part-weighted standards, and loss analysis to factory operators running mixed-model production cells. I work with my cofounder on product strategy, customer discovery, and design — and contribute to the marketing site, design system, admin, and operator UI on Astro 5, React 19, TanStack Start, Drizzle ORM, and Cloudflare Workers.

I treat AI as leverage for humans, not a substitute for them. The most interesting work in agentic systems isn't at the model and isn't at the UI — it's at the seam between them, where accountability, policy, and audit trail actually live. I write about this on the blog, most recently in "Humans First in the AI Era," a response to Zack Exley's series on AI and the economy.

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AIO (AI Optimization) are the discipline of designing content and software so that AI systems represent your brand correctly. Think SEO, but for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and the next generation of AI search. Every B2B brand is about to discover that the AI layer is a primary distribution channel — and most of them aren't ready. It's a big part of how I think about web work now.

Sideways. I started in international education, running study-abroad programs across Spain, Thailand, and Costa Rica, and lived in Lleida and San José along the way. The design and code came later — first at Hero Digital on a contract for Apple's Genius Bar, then leading front-end and UI design at a small agency, then DISCO. The non-engineering chapters are why I tend to think about software as a relationship problem first and a technology problem second.

Through 1:1s, structured goal-setting, and what I think of as a "growth partnership" model — agreeing with each person on the skills they want to grow into, then routing real work toward those skills. I try to keep the decision about AI tooling separate from the decision about who's on the team; the moment those land on the same line of the spreadsheet, you've stopped leading the people in front of you.

TypeScript and Python. React and Astro on the front-end, Drizzle + Postgres on the back, Claude + MCP for AI, Cloudflare Workers for infra. Full list on the About page.

I'm heads-down on my day job and Swip Tools. I'd love to learn about what you're working on around GEO/AIO strategy, agentic architecture, or marketing-engineering ops. The contact form is the best way to reach me.

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GEO/AIO strategy, MCP and agentic architecture, marketing-engineering ops. Or just say hi.

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I build web that converts and ship software that makes AI useful.

Business software designed for AIO/GEO, and the agentic systems behind it.

Recent work

A Design System That Checks Itself

Charity Concert with Stripe

Swip Tools — Manufacturing Intelligence SaaS

What I do

Web growth

Agentic AI

Product engineering

Frequently asked

What does your day job actually involve?

What's Swip Tools?

How do you think about AI and the people using it?

What's GEO/AIO and why does it matter?

How did you get into software?

How do you lead a team?

What's your current stack?

Are you taking outside work?

Building something AI-first? Let's talk.