Builder turned marketer turned Founder turned back to builder. Always an engineer. Two exits (AuctionAds, $17M, 2007 · PAR Program, $12M, 2015). Former bank security lead Linux engineer.
eBay Star Developer Award, Most Innovative Application (2007) — cited by eBay for caching that served 30M impressions/day on 200K API calls.
Currently building AI infrastructure tooling: LLM credential vaults, usage-aware routing, local-model agents, and self-hosted developer tools.
Now:
aigate— multi-account LLM credential vault with rate-limit-aware routing and a live usage dashboard (Node.js)eldritchdm— local-first AI agents with MCP; pluggable LLM backends incl. OpenRouter (Python)devbox— self-hosted file-sync hub with version history, hooks, and a live dashboard (Go)
Stack: Go · Node.js · Python · Redis/Postgres/SQLite · Claude Code, MCP, OpenRouter API
Dallas, TX · shoemoney.com · [email protected]