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Selected Work & Experience

Real systems, real products, and production experience across AI, data, and software — built at scale.

Built and Operated in Real-World Environments

This work reflects hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining systems used by large user bases and real businesses — with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Current Projects

1 Minute Signal

Curated intelligence for AI and tech builders — a live product that compresses long-form YouTube into structured signal pages and publishes cited research on the topics that matter.

The pace of change in AI, tech, and startups keeps accelerating; the best takes are buried in hour-long videos. 1 Minute Signal exists to deliver that signal as efficiently as possible — then connect the dots over time.

  • Curates high-signal YouTube sources and turns long videos into short, structured reads
  • Publishes original research articles with citations alongside video summaries
  • One editorial feed with judgment and synthesis — not passive aggregation
  • End-to-end stack: ingestion pipelines, LLM synthesis, editorial scoring, web + Android app

Focus areas

  • Editorial curation
  • LLM synthesis
  • Full-stack product
  • Content pipelines
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Playback Rewards Platform (Acquired, March 2026)

Co-founded and led design and production across web, mobile, and data systems for Playback Rewards — recently acquired by Entravision.

  • 600k+ users across mobile apps and platform
  • Designed and built full data pipeline (GCP Pub/Sub, BigQuery, DBT, Looker Studio)
  • Led Android app development and platform architecture
  • Built fraud detection and mitigation systems
  • Highly cost-efficient infrastructure (< $5k/month total platform cost)
  • Custom analytics system operating at < $1k/month

Focus areas

  • Full-stack systems
  • mobile + backend integration
  • cost optimization
  • scalable architecture
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AI Recommender System for In-Game Purchases (PerBlue)

Designed and implemented a production AI system that dynamically generated personalized purchase bundles for players in a large-scale mobile game.

  • Used daily by a large active player base
  • Directly influenced monetization and user experience
  • Built for performance, scalability, and continuous iteration

Focus areas

  • AI/ML systems
  • production deployment
  • monetization optimization
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AI Shopping Assistant Prototype (Perusable.ai)

Designed and built an AI-powered shopping assistant integrating LLMs into a live product experience.

  • Real-world LLM integration into user-facing workflows
  • Focused on practical UX and system design
  • Early exploration of AI-driven commerce experiences

Focus areas

  • LLM integration
  • applied AI
  • product design
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Data Platform & Analytics Infrastructure (PerBlue)

Architected and maintained a large-scale data platform powering analytics and decision-making across multiple products at PerBlue.

  • AWS + Snowflake + DBT-based pipeline
  • Processed millions of events per day
  • Managed 10+ TB of analytics data
  • Enabled reporting, experimentation, and product insights

Focus areas

  • Data engineering
  • analytics systems
  • scalable pipelines
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Mobile Games & Product Development (PerBlue)

Contributed to and helped scale multiple mobile games over 14 years at PerBlue Games.

  • Titles include Disney Heroes, DragonSoul, Parallel Kingdom, and others
  • Disney Heroes reached 40M+ downloads
  • Portfolio exceeded 60M+ total downloads
  • DragonSoul was acquired by GREE for $35 million

Focus areas

  • Scalable systems
  • live operations
  • monetization systems
  • large user bases
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Modern, Practical, and Production-Tested

Areas of expertise

  • AI & LLM integration (real-world product use)
  • AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor)
  • Automation systems (including N8N pipelines)
  • Secure deployment of AI agents (e.g., OpenClaw)
  • Model routing and optimization (e.g., OpenRouter)
  • Cost and performance optimization for AI systems

Experience That Translates Into Results

This background enables:

  • Identifying high-impact opportunities quickly
  • Designing systems that scale without unnecessary cost
  • Building solutions that are practical, not theoretical
  • Delivering systems that are maintainable and production-ready

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