design engineer
I design it, build it, and ship the whole thing.
Design engineer with 10+ years of production front-end and brand work for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Meredith, and Wells Fargo. Today I direct AI agents to design, build, and ship complete products — and I'm the judgment in that loop.
Open to design engineer roles · remote or Des Moines
selected work
A few things I've shipped
War Chest
A searchable, scored index of 369 AI agent skills from seven GitHub repos — one Python pipeline, a zero-dependency interface, and a license audit before going public.
POAPathon
Ran the full creative operation for a web3 media project — brand identity, a 10K-member Discord, 45 produced YouTube episodes, and $120K in coordinated artist payouts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Led the front-end rebuild of a legacy, table-heavy site into a fully responsive, modern publication platform.
the lab
Tools I build and use
Agents and AI tooling, creative tools, and the infrastructure they run on — built with AI agents, reviewed by me.
Claude Instruct
Builds Claude project instructions from a library of best-practice rule blocks.
DSM New Business
A monthly list of new Des Moines metro business registrations, compiled by an automated pipeline.
FLIGHT DECK
A self-hosted dashboard framework where every widget is a folder you can copy, edit, and share.
now
What I'm building this month
- DSM New Business — running the beta: new metro business filings, compiled monthly and sent free.
- Outpost — a self-hosted fork of the Outline team wiki, running on my home server.
- Driftloop — a ComfyUI node pack that turns a still image into a looping effects video; next batch adds parallax, particles, and light rays.
- This site — rebuilding it in public, one case study at a time.
updated September 2026