About

Production AI engineer, consultant, and coach.

I help engineering teams design, evaluate, and ship production AI systems. That includes Claude Code workflows, AI agent architecture, evals, observability, and the codebase changes that make AI useful instead of noisy.

My background is 15+ years of production software, including FDA-cleared medical device software, scaling an engineering team from 0 to 50+ as CTO, and current hands-on work as a senior engineer at August Health, the AI-enabled platform for better care and operations in senior living communities.

What I'm Known For

Production AI Engineering

Turning AI features from demos into production systems with clear failure modes, measurable behavior, and real operating constraints.

AI Agent Architecture

Memory systems, tool orchestration, governance, evals, and the structural decisions that make agents reliable.

Claude Code Workflows

Practical Claude Code setup, context management, MCP servers, team rollouts, and workflows grounded in daily use.

High-Stakes Software

I work comfortably in environments where correctness, auditability, and operational discipline matter.

Proof Points

15+

years building production software

0 → 50+

engineering team scaled as CTO

FDA

cleared medical device software shipped

1+ yr

daily Claude Code use documented publicly

Background

I've spent most of my career building software under real constraints: deadlines, regulated environments, production incidents, team growth, and the usual mismatch between how systems are supposed to work and how they actually behave. Earlier on, at thoughtbot, I co-taught a cohort of the Metis Ruby on Rails bootcamp — a 12-week intensive that produced production-ready engineers — which is where I learned how to compress engineering intuition into something a builder can actually use.

I was CTO at Buoy Software, where I helped grow the engineering team from 0 to 50+ and shipped FDA-cleared medical device software (510(k) BK231004). Today I'm a Senior Software Engineer at August Health, building August Intelligence — the AI platform for better care and operations in senior living communities — while also shipping AI products and teaching what I learn in public.

That combination matters. A lot of AI advice is either theoretically smart or practically battle-tested. I care about the second category. My Claude Code workflows, MCP servers, and skills are open-sourced on GitHub — including claude-code-workflows, my public collection of patterns built from daily use.

What I'm Doing Now

  • Writing about production AI engineering, Claude Code, and AI agent architecture
  • Publishing weekly videos on real workflows, failures, and patterns that hold up in practice
  • Advising teams shipping AI features into production through Foundation Sprints and retainers
  • Coaching engineers, founders, and leaders working through architecture and workflow decisions

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Production AI Engineering

The commercial and technical center of gravity: architecture, evals, observability, governance, and hardening.

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Claude Code

For developers and teams building real workflows around Claude Code.

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AI Agent Architecture

For teams designing agents with memory, tools, and production constraints.

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Working on something in production?

If your team is past the demo stage and the constraints are getting real, book an intro call. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.

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