Full-stack developer · Louisiana
I build the machine, then keep making it better.
I've always wanted to know how things work. I studied mathematics with a minor in computer science, and what I loved about both turned out to be the same thing: take something tangled, find the pieces it's actually made of, and work out how they fit together.
When I was sixteen I hacked my calculator into doing my algebra homework and then worked every problem out by hand anyway to check it. Build the thing that does the work for you, then stay close enough to know when it's wrong. Fifteen years later that's still the whole job.
Out of school, I started out as the project manager telling developers what to build, then quickly realized I wanted to be a developer myself, and through some luck and opportunity, I ventured out to start my own business building software. Since then, I've worked with over 40 businesses in all sorts of industries and earned $500,000+ along the way.
And I've never been more excited to be a developer than I am right now. AI has collapsed the distance between having an idea and having a working thing. I get to move at the speed of my own thinking, and then I get to spend the time I get back with my 3 kiddos.
- 10
- Years shipping
software - $500K+
- Delivered in
client builds - 5
- Years self-employed
- 10K+
- Developers taught
on YouTube
How I like to work
Ask, draw, slice, prove.
01
Question the ask
What are we actually solving, and which half of it should a machine be doing instead of a person? Some of the best work I've done was talking someone out of the feature they came in asking for.
02
Draw the whole system
Data model, API surface and screens on one page before a line of code gets written. If I can't sketch the path from a click to a row in the database and back again, I don't understand it yet.
03
Build it in thin slices
Something real and running end to end in week one, not a polished demo in month three. You should be able to click the thing while we're still arguing about it.
04
Prove it end to end
Tests that walk the real path a person takes, not the happy one that was easy to write. AI is faster than me, but it still makes mistakes. I catch them.