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Software engineer, author, and speaker. 8+ years building production systems at Fortune 500s in cloud, finance, and travel. Ex-CEO/CTO of startups. I help JavaScript developers grow from Mid → Senior → Architect.
That now includes the field's hardest new question: how do you architect software around LLMs — RAG, agents, evals, cost, latency — so AI features survive real users? I build these systems in Python and JavaScript and teach the judgment behind them.
In the AI era, the question isn't whether you can code. It's whether you can think like an architect — and that's the gap I help you close.
