Fifteen years of receipts.
Biography
I grew up in Central New York, moved twelve times before fifth grade, blew out my knee two weeks before shipping to the Marine Corps, and sold cars instead — six figures the first year. I've built three seven-figure businesses, lost one to a partner dispute, and rebuilt. I've been homeless twice. I've been clean for fifteen years.
For the last three years I've been walking into other founders' businesses, finding the thing that's actually broken, and building the fix while they watch. I built CallVault because I record every conversation I have and needed somewhere for 1,300 of them to live. I built LifeOS because my ADHD brain needed an external executive function and nothing on the market was built for it. I write Hinges because most founders with brains like mine were told they were lazy, and they were just missing the gear.
I'm not returning to the workforce. I'm choosing to point this pattern at one mission for a while instead of fifty.
The five questions you're about to ask me
Short answers. The long ones happen on a call.
You haven't had an employer in fifteen years.
Fifteen years of being hired by customers with money on the line; the one time I took a title (COO) I doubled the company in ten weeks.
Can you work inside a team?
I ran an 11–16-person company's operations; I currently co-build with an engineer and two agencies' teams; my own weakness is the last mile, which is exactly what a team fixes.
You're not a “real” engineer.
214K lines in production, 277 unit + 67 e2e tests, 283 migrations, an OAuth MCP server, a notarized Rust desktop app. Judge the artifacts.
Why now?
Because the teams building the tools I use every day are the ones I want to build with, and the pattern compounds inside a mission instead of restarting every engagement.
What's your weakness?
I sell everyone's product better than my own, I over-explain abstractions, and I'm strongest at 0→1. I say all three out loud so we can plan around them.