About Me
Agentic software architect building developer tooling for fullstack AI-powered web applications. Christian, husband, and father living in Bend, OR.
Family of Origin
Born in Elmira, NY
My parents moved to rural upstate New York in the 1970s. I am the youngest of three boys. My childhood was filled with time outdoors, riding my big wheel and bike, and instigating trouble.
Studies
From Notre Dame High School to SUNY Polytechnic Institute
My parents strongly believed in the value of a Catholic education. I was one of about 20 students in my class from Kindergarten through 6th grade, eventually graduating with 80 of my peers in high school. Science, math, and computers were my jam. Boy Scouts greatly influenced my life, and I earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Early Career
Intern to Chief Technology Officer
I am grateful for the opportunity to start my career as an intern and then full-time web developer at Hamilton College. I was hired as a web developer and then transitioned to the Chief Technology Officer for an enterprise training company called Webucator. I began working remotely in 2010, living and working in Syracuse, NY.
Marriage
Husband to Bonnie
I met Bonnie on the dance floor of a nightclub in Syracuse, NY. We literally bumped into each other. We were engaged 5 months later and married in 2013.
Living Abroad
22 countries in 12 months
A month after getting married we were off to see the world. Well, Europe at least. Living in Munich, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands, we enjoyed traveling, learning, and growing in our love for people, each other, and the world.
Christianity
Baptised (again)
I was baptised as an infant in the Catholic Church, and while I am both grateful and disappointed with my Catholic upbringing, it was a radical act of God that changed my life. It was in 2015 that I decided to publicly declare my faith as a follower of Jesus through baptism.
Family Life
Father to Evelyn
Bonnie and I were married for 8 years when God individually changed our hearts to pursue a family. Evelyn was born in 2022. She's pretty darn cool.
Business
Building LiveLoveApp
I founded LiveLoveApp in 2019 with a clear goal: build an engineering culture around excellence and health. I wanted to create a business where high standards, sustainable pace, and care for people could all exist at the same time.
First Startup
Polaris
In 2022, Mike Ryan joined LiveLoveApp and we built Polaris — a lightweight, AI-powered site reliability platform that detects outages and incidents in web applications in real-time. The idea was simple: leave the bloated observability tools behind and give teams a 7KB SDK that measures only what matters.
Polaris won a $25,000 early stage investment from Portland Seed Fund at the 2023 Bend Venture Conference. We did not find product-market fit, but that season sharpened how we think about product discovery, customer value, and execution.
AI Tooling
From GPT-3.5 to Hashbrown
I started building with the ChatGPT APIs when GPT-3.5 launched, integrating AI-powered features into Polaris for incident analysis and resolution suggestions. That early work made it clear that LLMs were going to reshape how we build software, not just what software does.
From there I focused on learning how to integrate AI intelligence into web applications for financial firms — designing how models surface insights in complex UIs, handle sensitive structured data, and augment decision-making for end users.
I also built RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search, indexing enterprise content from SharePoint and internal knowledge bases into vector stores that ground LLM responses in real organizational data. That work taught me how retrieval-augmented generation actually behaves in production — the chunking tradeoffs, the reranking strategies, and how to keep answers grounded when the stakes are high.
In 2025, Mike and I co-created Hashbrown — a framework for building fullstack agentic web applications with LLMs. It pulls together everything we learned about AI interaction design, developer experience, and production reliability into a practical tool that helps teams turn AI into real user-facing product experiences.
Skiing
High stoke
Travel
Let's go.