I help founders ship the first hard version of their product. The one that actually has to work. Founding-engineer engagements and short, focused contracts.
Leading, building, contracting. A few of the projects I'm most proud of.
Co-founder building the autonomous dispatch layer for contractors. FSEN sits between the emergency and the on-call tech, routing the right person in seconds so customers stop losing minutes when minutes matter.
Contract engineering on the growth and experimentation tooling that powers a CRO agency's client work. Building the systems behind A/B tests and the analytics on top of them.
Built a full-stack node-based workflow platform with embedded AI agents. Shipped to production at 10+ construction firms, driving measurable time and cost savings on real jobs in a market that doesn't tolerate flaky software.
Led a five-engineer team to build and ship a personalized reading platform for dyslexic learners, powered by a custom linguistic classification algorithm. The platform was acquired.
Led the founding engineering team end-to-end on the Google API stack. Shipped a ticketing platform to thousands of users.
Production Go services, Dockerized infra, OCR pipelines, and API validation across a legacy codebase. On-call for customer-facing incidents.
Built the entire product end-to-end for a VC-backed data center powering dozens of startups, in React + Python + FastAPI.
Led an intern team on real-time data pipelines, Bluetooth comms, and ThingsBoard integration for a wearable device. Shipped through beta.
RLHF and code QA. Reviewed 3,000+ lines and authored 2,000+ to train frontier coding models.
I'm Chris, a recent CS grad who's been shipping software professionally since I was nineteen. I care about taste, the kind that quietly compounds: well-named functions, fewer abstractions, interfaces a person can keep in their head, products that feel made by someone instead of assembled.
For the last three years I've been the engineer founders call when the prototype isn't enough anymore. When it has to handle real users, real money, real edge cases. I work fast, ask the boring questions, and write code I'd be willing to own at three in the morning.
I'm taking on a small number of contracts and at most one founding-engineer role this year. If you're building something that has to be good, not just functional. Let's talk.
Pick whichever's easiest. Tell me what you're building, what hurts about it, and when you need it. I'll write back within a day with an honest answer.