Staff Frontend Engineer in Houston, TX. These days I build tooling that helps engineering teams and organizations actually use AI in ways that improve productivity.
WordCamp US 2026 · Phoenix, AZ · co-presented with Paul Yuen and Kay Lima
Two production engagements, side by side: an LLM-powered search block over a 120-program catalog, and a fully deterministic block built after a client's legal team rejected an AI SOW. The spine of the talk is the decision making and workflow for both methods — plus a framework for deciding when an AI feature belongs in a project at all.
tribe-harness — a ticket-lifecycle orchestration framework for coding agents. Nine composed skills and four role-specialized subagents drive a ticket from understand → plan → develop → review → PR, across two agent runtimes. Collaborative by design: it pushes back rather than running on autopilot.
mcp-server-tutorial — a hands-on course for building Model Context Protocol servers, written for engineers starting from zero.
Agent orchestration · MCP · production hardening for LLM features · when a deterministic solution beats an AI one · getting a whole team to adopt new tooling without a mandate