San Francisco · Engineering Manager
I write about engineering leadership, AI tooling, and the agentic web.
I use decades of technical experience and a uniquely creative approach to envision, design and deliver scalable solutions. Working closely with my leadership and cross-functional teams, I’m able to elegantly solve our most complex challenges.
I also take great pride in my management style. Using progressive hiring and training methods, I devised a systematic approach to inspiring, elevating and providing accountability. As a result of these methods, my team has consistently exceeded our goals while also maintaining the lowest turnover in the engineering department.
Latest writing
The Complete List of AI Files Your Website Needs in 2026 (llms.txt, ai.txt, AGENTS.md) with AI Prompts
Every week brings another file the AI web supposedly needs. This post sorts what's adopted from what's noise, organized by what each file actually does, with prompts to generate every one of them.
More posts
How We Got Our AI Agent to Remember Everything and Stop Clobbering Each Other's Work
A practical guide (with prompts) to persistent memory and shared context for dev teams using AI coding agents.
Your Next.js App Might Be Leaking Secrets and Here's How to Find Out
Learn how secrets leak into Next.js client bundles through shared imports, NEXT_PUBLIC_ misuse, and prop serialization, and how @snytch/nextjs detects them before they ship.
Data Architecture Documentation
Big data architecture poster I designed while at RealGravity helped explain this complex systrem to the team.
UI Development Study: How Do People Hold and Interact with Their Phone?
Results from a survey I wrote and conducted to discover how people held and interacted with their phone.
Latest Posts on Medium
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About
Engineering Manager based in San Francisco. I’ve led teams across consumer products, ad tech, and developer tooling. Along the way I was lucky enough to travel the world, picking up perspective that still shapes how I think about product and people. Before taking the reigns of engineering management, I spent years as a UX designer and front-end engineer.
I write about the things I’m working on, mostly: AI coding agents, team practices that survive growth, and how the web is being rewritten for machines as well as people.