I'm a senior full-stack engineer and AI-augmented product builder who delivers fast, enterprise-grade systems with emotional intelligence and clear communication. I specialize in building expressive platforms that combine solid architecture, intelligent automation, and meaningful user experiences.

Over the past 25+ years, I’ve led projects from concept to scale, blending sharp technical execution with human-centered thinking. I turn complexity into clarity — and vision into working software.

I bridge cutting-edge AI with robust engineering to deliver platforms that are fast to market, built to scale, and designed for real-world impact — whether solo-building, leading teams, or driving strategy across functions.

• 🧩 Systems Thinker – Deep architectural understanding across frontend, backend, AI, and infrastructure
• 🧬 Problem Decomposer – Turns ambiguity into clarity with actionable, high-velocity implementation
• 📢 Excellent Communicator – Speaks business and tech fluently, connecting product, design, and engineering
• 🚀 Builder of Real Things – Ships fast without compromising quality, scalability, or user trust
• 🤖 AI-Native Developer – Uses AI to enhance development speed, code quality, and innovation
• 🤝 Human-Centered Leader – Creates safe, empowering spaces for creative collaboration and user insight

• OGFlow.ai – AI-first platform for interactive, character-driven interviews:
  A modular system that powers intelligent conversations across domains like resumes, dating, introspection, and beyond.
  Users engage with AI "teams" made of specialized characters, each with distinct roles and memory, orchestrated via LangChain and LangGraph.

  ✅ Features:

  • Multi-agent orchestration with contextual memory
  • PDF ingestion, parsing, and vector embedding pipelines
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for dynamic, accurate Q&A
  • Fast, pluggable architecture for supporting custom domains and user-created interview teams
  • Background task queues with Celery and Redis
  • Persistent session tracking and rich analytics with PostgreSQL + pgvector

  🎨 Frontend (in development):

  • Built with React, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui
  • Clean, extensible UI framework designed for expressive character chat, onboarding flows, and future visualizations
  • Fully responsive and optimized for rapid iteration

  The result: a flexible, AI-powered platform that helps people be seen, understood, and supported — whether they're applying for jobs, exploring themselves, or just having conversations that matter.

• ILYS.com – Radical writing platform for focused flow:
  A unique, distraction-free writing experience where users can only see one letter at a time — designed to silence the inner critic and unlock pure creative output.
  Live since 2011 and still growing, ILYS is a production-grade, full-stack Laravel application built and maintained entirely in-house.

  ✅ Backend Architecture:

  • Framework: Laravel 11 with Inertia.js, Jetstream, Sanctum, and Spark for auth, sessions, and Stripe billing
  • Admin tooling: Nova for powerful content and subscription management
  • Queues & background jobs: Horizon + Redis
  • File handling: Spatie MediaLibrary Pro, Dropbox SDK integration
  • AI integration: OpenAI PHP SDK, token-based cleanup system
  • Email: Spatie Mailcoach, Mailgun
  • Security: Implements OWASP best practices, Debugbar, Query Detector, automated backups via Spatie Backup

  ✅ Frontend & UX:

  • SPA-style experience with Vue 3, Tailwind CSS, and Vite
  • Real-time writing flow with dynamic word count goals and session architecture
  • Intuitive dashboard with subscription management, settings, and writing session history

  ✅ Infrastructure:

  • Containerized via Laravel Sail (docker-compose), including services for MySQL, Redis, and Mailhog
  • Deployment-ready for scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS EC2, S3, Nginx)

  ILYS combines production-grade SaaS architecture with an unusually intimate and expressive user experience. It's both a technical system and a creative sanctuary — serving thousands of writers over the past decade.

• BoomBoom Networks – Creator
  Fully automated media pipelines that convert news and astrology data into generative songs, poems, and videos using n8n, GPT-4, Udio, and FFmpeg. Designed for modular expansion and viral content creation.

• GPT-4, LangChain, LangGraph, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Vector Embeddings, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering
• OpenAI PHP SDK, LLM Orchestration, Session Memory Design

• Python, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, C#

• Laravel (11+), FastAPI, Inertia.js, React, Vue 3

• PostgreSQL + pgvector, MySQL, Supabase, Airtable
• File handling via Spatie MediaLibrary Pro, Dropbox SDK

• Docker, Laravel Sail, Redis, Horizon, Nginx
• AWS (EC2, S3), Mailgun, Mailhog
• CI/CD and performance tooling (Debugbar, Query Detector, Laravel Backup)

• Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Vite, SPA Architecture

• Laravel Nova, Spark (Stripe Billing), Jetstream + Sanctum
• Mailcoach (Email Broadcasts), Laravel Tinker, Laravel IDE Helper

• n8n (AI automation pipelines), FFmpeg (video/audio processing)

⚡️ Bonus: Full production experience in scaling, securing, and maintaining long-term SaaS products — solo or with teams.

• 🎧 I create tools that help people express their truth — with clarity, speed, and emotional resonance
• 🧘‍♂️ Long-time meditation practitioner, kitesurfer, and two-time Guinness World Record holder
• 🧠 Obsessed with the intersection of expressive tech, deep systems thinking, and AI collaboration

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