I'm a software engineer and educator taking a short break.
I'm an expert self-teacher who highly values ownership and radical transparency.
I work with kind, diverse teams to build products that help our customers and society.
Recent projects
Owner.com Agents team
Owner AgentEnables customers to do anything they can do with Owner's UI using natural language requests, and drives proactive actions for the customer to respond to, not just reacting to the customer.
Owner.com PLG
AI Website ImproverUsing scraping from across the web and Owner's platform, empowers restaurant owners to build a beautiful, highly personalized, and SEO-optimized website in just a one of click.
- AI Restaurant Grader
For the first time, gives every restaurant owner the chance to understand how their business is performing online for free and with the quality of professional SEO-specialists.
Bench Accounting Team Automate
Categorization AssistantUsing nascent agentic workflows, the "CatBot" enables one of our most-requested customer features; being able to confidently self-categorize journal entries without needing bookkeeper input.
Latest posts
Some agent patterns
Reflecting on building agents and how to think about agent implementation.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Working with me documents
How to write, structure, and share documents outlining your needs from colleagues, as well as the benefits of writing them.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Never let a candidate bomb
Sharing my most-strongly held principle for interviewing. How it helps, why you should do it, and how to practice it.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Effective remote work communication patterns
A reflection on some of the patterns I've found most effective for remote and asynchronous teams.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Stop using the word transaction
A short argument that in the context of bookkeeping, transaction is an unhelpful term.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Zod hot takes
A series of hot takes I've accumulated from several years of religiously using Zod.
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