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Capabilities

Senior capabilities, proven in the record.

Seven areas of work, none of them aspirational — led by the way we engage most today: fractional technology leadership. Every capability below closes with the projects that prove it — the same record, the same commit authorship, one click away.

Fractional CTO

Our primary engagement today: senior technology leadership without the full-time hire. Ecosystem and provider audits, data strategy, integration and automation roadmaps, build-versus-buy decisions, and AI governance — for organizations whose stack has outgrown its oversight.

End-to-End Product Engineering

Web, mobile, and API built as one system — with the releases, environments, and edge routing that carry it to production. We replatform legacy products and build new ones, and we hold the whole surface, not a slice of it.

AI & LLM Systems

Production AI, not demos: enrichment pipelines a curator can extend without engineering, agentic loops under explicit budgets with every call traced, evidence-based scoring, and agent platforms that ship their own code. We also publish our own methodology for building software with agents.

Commerce & Payments

Subscription billing with webhook reconciliation, payment gateways from Stripe to NMI to Mastercard's encryption and request signing, live shopping with embedded checkout, and metered usage billing for platforms.

Data, Search & Analytics

Hybrid search fusing full-text, trigram, and vector similarity; controlled vocabularies and classification; analytics dashboards, geographic visualization with clustering and choropleths, and clean import/export for every entity.

Embedded Senior Engineering

Long-run work alongside a client's own team, on their stack and their design system — an on-and-off collaboration spanning five years on a single lending platform at the far end. Where the difficulty lives in the interface, we own the interface: document editors, query builders, spreadsheet-grade grids, browser extensions.

Platform & Infrastructure

Terraform-managed AWS environments, container orchestration, edge routing, over-the-air mobile delivery, and real-time video on AWS IVS. The infrastructure is part of the engagement, not an afterthought left to someone else.

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