Flutter's Underlying Mechanisms: A Closer Look
Dart's JIT and AOT modes, Skia, and why Flutter paints its own pixels.
I build software.
Software Engineer · Systems Architect · Project Manager.


A robot hotel stood up in 90 days. Several robot types, an elevator on a reverse-engineered protocol, and guest requests over SMS.

Website for a Montreal radio show, drawn as a map of artists, collaborators, and the people who shaped them.
Private server for local models and agents, with an app store and Companion Memory on hardware you own. A 3D avatar talks in the room over WebXR, on those same models.

Studio booking and ops. The product is live, and so is the community next door.

Storefront for a Los Angeles streetwear label, sitting on Shopify.

Festival site for Ciel Ouvert, including a catalog of 127 Belgian films about the prison system.

Site and archive for genreless Media. Creative direction, release rollouts, photography, and commercial production.

A sales CRM that keeps the pipeline simple and does the busywork underneath. The product and the site.

Booking for party vendors. Planners find a service, vendors run the business, on the web and in the app.

Quote builder for a San Francisco railing company. Draw the rail, see the price, email the diagram.

Site for a metal shop. Process, gallery, and shop, with the shop's actual energy.

Site and marketing for a nut-free bakery. The brand later cleared $100M+ through deals with large retailers.

Criminal defense site for Laurie Drymalla in Austin. Former prosecutor, and a municipal court judge.

Site for a whistleblower practice. False Claims Act, IRS, SEC, and the other reward programs.
Guest, press, and hotel ticketing for the Mr. Brainwash Art Museum in Beverly Hills. Over 250,000 tickets issued, each an automated email with a QR code that scanned at the door.

Mr. Brainwash Paints. An easy Photoshop-style toy preloaded with his assets, splatter brushes, stencils, and layers.

Published paper on when and where the flies breed. I built the climate data behind the temporal patterns and the biogeographical hotspots.

Personal site, rebuilt. Next.js, 8px black frames, copy in the repo. No Firebase.
Started the company and grew it past $2M. The ecosystem is an operating system, a digital-memory platform, an agent harness, and the Hub.
The Hub is the private server. Its store downloads apps and runs them on your own machine.
Lived on site for 90 days and shipped the robotics stack. Four robot types and the building's only elevator, on a multi-floor map.
Reverse-engineered the elevator protocol so robots can call it, ride it, and get off without trapping a guest.
Founded the marketplace that books recording studios, then carried it through an exit.
Artists in all 50 states. Marketplace payments in 150+ countries. Hundreds of studios and thousands of sessions.
Built Shopify stores for Transcend Collective, Baked Cravings, Roberi & Fraud, and Xavvi, then headless storefronts on Next.js.
Shipped WordPress sites, led a team of 8, and connected Salesforce and NetSuite for the William James Association's fundraising and grants.
Worked for Thierry Guetta, the pop artist and Oscar nominee known as Mr. Brainwash.
Led three engineers on museum ticketing. 80,000+ tickets and $2M+ in ticket revenue.
Shipped QR tickets, a door scanner, the gift-shop iPad, and Mr. Brainwash Paints.
Helped manage $13M of personal money at the fund with automated trading strategies.
Sold a real estate model that priced houses from beds, baths, acreage, and distance to schools.
Managed the outsourced developers who built it.
Invested up to $1MM for the Virginia Tech Foundation through Commodity Investing by Students, the student-managed commodity club.
Traded futures-based ETFs, ETNs, and covered calls. Built the models in Excel and Python, then pitched the trades.
Graduate of the Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit, a selective leadership program. About 1% of Sigma Chi alumni finish it.
Wrote Python scrapers over appraisals and tax records so brokers could find leads. Client acquisition cost dropped 50%.
Built media lists, modeled the spreadsheets, and ran pieces of each client's PR plan.
Virginia Tech
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Minor in Economics
Aug 2016 — May 2020 · Blacksburg
I'm a software engineer, systems architect, and project manager. I build software that looks finished and actually ships.
I'm a passionate technologist. I care about being the best person I can be, and about making the world a better place.
Find what you love that fuels your vision. Iterate, improve, repeat, and make time to enjoy life.
Passed in 2024.
The regular ones, plus the ones that stick.
How the work actually gets finished.
What I write the product in.
The three clouds, down at the network and identity layer, not the console homepage.
Companion Intelligence stays on the box. The mesh, the proxy, and the models do not leave the house.
CSI from WiFi, turned into a picture of the room. Fiber cabinets in San Diego with my dad: latency, and how hard the line can be pushed.
Radios, robots, and the cabinets that carry the light.
Fine-tunes, not just prompts.
From a messy table to a pattern you can defend.
Virginia Tech, applied economics, and the methods that come with it.
Dart's JIT and AOT modes, Skia, and why Flutter paints its own pixels.
John Law, controller of finances for France, and the furniture that bankrupted a king.