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Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems · AI Infrastructure · Geospatial
I spent two years trying to keep vascular tissue alive at the Morgridge Institute. Now I keep Adacavo's out-of-home ad operations alive — inventory, maps, contracts, billing — and I ship side projects in AI, language learning, and geospatial tools. Biology taught me systems thinking; software taught me to ship it.
Biology (UW-Madison) → Research Lab → Software. A biologist, a Starbucks stranger, a Craigslist job, and a lot of late-night debugging.
Graduated from UW-Madison in biology and worked at the Morgridge Institute, where the goal was to keep vascular tissue alive outside the body long enough for organs to reach transplant patients. I learned systems thinking by debugging living systems.
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I was building a little health-info website at a Starbucks when I noticed a guy with a GitHub sticker on his laptop. I introduced myself, said I was applying for developer jobs, and asked if he had any recommendations. He said: check Craigslist.
I applied to a handful of developer postings on Craigslist. A while later someone reached out to schedule an interview. Turned out to be the Starbucks guy's old boss. Small world, smaller ecosystem.
After the interview and a take-home assignment, they hired me. I spent the next few years learning the actual craft — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, databases — mostly by shipping things I didn't fully understand and then fixing them in production at 2am.
I'm grateful for the people who helped me get here. I repay it by connecting other developers to jobs, projects, and each other — the same way someone once did for me.
Most of the luckiest moments in my career came from someone else making an intro. I pass that forward now — matching developers with jobs, projects, and each other across X and LinkedIn.
Real products don't fit in one language or one cloud. I end up wiring Python for data, TypeScript for the UI, Postgres for the source of truth, and LLM APIs for the parts that used to need a human — whatever gets the job done.
Known weakness: too much espresso → bad sleep → more espresso to compensate → loop. I also take on too many things at once and then wonder why progress is slow. Working on it.
Books, music all day, making my own protein bars, testing new tools, sci-fi and comedy, and staying active. The work doesn't work without the rest.
From a Craigslist dev job to running engineering at Adacavo. The path is crooked, but the pattern is clear.
A stranger at Starbucks saw my GitHub sticker and told me to check Craigslist. His old boss hired me. I spent the next year learning the real craft: HTML, CSS, JS, databases, and how to ship without breaking production.
Built across React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, PostGIS, Python, AWS, and design. Got good at zero-to-one, and even better at debugging the things I broke at 2am.
Kept seeing the same problems in OOH, local business, and media ops. Stopped doing one-off sites and started building reusable systems. Some worked, some didn't. The patterns stuck.
Went all-in on Adacavo, a vertical SaaS platform for out-of-home advertising. Real customers, long sales cycles, messy data migrations, and the hardest product problems I've worked on yet.
Real products I've shipped — some bootstrapped, some sold, and a few still embarrassing me into improving.
The ops system for out-of-home advertising teams.
Eco-luxury resort investment site for Cape Verde.
Luxury resort and investment site for SeaScape Costa Rica.
Organic chemistry tools and supplies, without the clutter.
Search, compare, and book billboard space like you book a flight.
Quick phrase-based language learning for common real-world situations.
Health explainers you can read in five minutes.
Paste a URL, get a graded audit in under a minute.
A bedtime story for kids who are scared of the dark.
Where I'm actually pointing my time and attention.
Make Adacavo the system OOH operators actually want to use: CRM, inventory, billing, creative, and maps in one place.
Build or acquire a small portfolio of vertical products, each using AI to kill off a specific kind of repetitive work.
Keep extracting reusable map, data, and media building blocks from Adacavo so the next product starts with a map engine instead of a blank repo.
Use SaaS cash flow to buy real-world media inventory and property. Software prints cash; real assets compound it.
Five questions. One reason for being. A map of where your energy, skill, need, and pay intersect.
Your answers map a fingerprint across the four circles of ikigai.
Building something in OOH, SaaS, AI, or geospatial? Want to compare notes on vertical SaaS or side projects? Send a note, or book a 30-min slot directly.
