Updated · August 2026

Right now.

Living in Asbury Park, NJ.

Work

VP of Engineering & AI at Skillit. Small team, Rails monolith, AI hiring platform for ENR 500 construction firms. Deep in it right now — product, AI, and Series A.

Building

hitch-rails is new — couple a Rails app to anything that speaks MCP. OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, so the app can host an MCP server and do the authorization dance itself.

stash.bar is still in beta — the personal context layer for AI. Capture once; every tool reads from the same substrate via MCP. pgvector semantic search, email ingestion via ActionMailbox, a self-hosted mail server on Hetzner, and a Hotwire Native iOS app. A few early users. No folders, no schemas. It just notices things.

Lattice is out — v0.1, open source. Deterministic combinatorial coverage for coding agents. Same math I built at Hexawise, pointed at a different reader. Coding agents produce plans that look careful and miss the edges they didn't enumerate; Lattice finds them.

The trading system is live. Sports betting arb and +EV on Kalshi. Was quietly profitable until March Madness blew up the model. Currently clawing back.

Slop Management — a design experiment about AI-generated technical debt. Waste Management parody. Mostly for fun.

Research

Working on Allocation Mechanics — a quantum foundations project. The core idea: resolution is finite, reality is what's resolved. I've derived the Bloch sphere from first principles and developed a novel argument for state-space smoothness from sub-threshold structure. Currently reading Dakic-Brukner (2009) and writing Paper 1.

I also spent a few weeks thinking about whether fractions are real or just cognitive compression tools. Still not sure.

Reading

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Biochar Handbook by Kelpie Wilson (on order)

Life

Still house hunting in Monmouth County with Rose. Growing roma tomatoes and peppers indoors from the seed of the real things, and propagating basil. Barely golfing as much as I wish I was. Watching Silo and Outer Banks. For All Mankind recently. NFL's back. UNC football too — Belichick, year 2. Can he get it together?

Not doing

Entity Zero (the autonomous agent platform) is shelved. The vending machine idea is dead. I'm getting better at putting things down.

Did not buy a Mac Mini. Have not installed OpenClaw.