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Five chapters,
shipped end-to-end.

Each one is a product or a company I built or co-built. Click anywhere on the home page tiles to jump here.

BriteBuild · 2025 — present

A vertical operating system for the solar industry.

Full-stack engineer · architecture · most surface area.

BriteBuild started as a thin solar-potential calculator. Fifteen months in it's a multi-tenant operating system: CRM, design tool, financing splits, contracts, scheduling, rebates, real-time chat, file manager, public API. I'm the largest individual contributor by feature surface area.

commits
722
DB migrations
291+
Svelte components
630
API routes
130
  • Tenant → EPC → contractor hierarchy with polymorphic territories (state + county FIPS), 325 fine-grained permissions across 24 domains and 7 roles.
  • Solar design engine: drag-select on Google Maps imagery, magnet-snap, edge-to-edge rectangular tiling on sheared grids. Performance-critical placement compiled to Rust/WebAssembly.
  • Five-tier pricing resolver and bitemporal pricing snapshots — quote-version-locked equipment prices via lock_session_*_pricing() SQL functions.
  • Multi-bucket financing splits routing line-items to different lenders, dual EPC/contractor adder pricing, HDM finance product, lender utility-exclusion eligibility.
  • Rebates & incentives as a parallel system to adders (different shape: recurring vs one-time, eligibility scoping, certainty tiers), 3-tier inheritance.
  • Quest Objectives task platform: visual editor, mind-map dependency graph, scope rules, deployment to sessions, lineage tracking.
  • Contract template engine with dynamic merge field resolution, Google Docs + PDF support, DocuSign e-sign integration.
  • Slack-like messaging: workspaces, channels, threads, reactions, @mention chips, slash commands, auto-channel per session and project. WebSocket dispatcher hardened with 82 E2E tests.
  • Centralized OAuth on a base-domain hub with signed hand-off to tenant subdomains. Patched real CVEs along the way.

Strategy Labs AI · 2026

An agent-first studio shipping operator-grade SaaS.

Co-founder.

Strategy Labs is the umbrella for what comes next. The thesis: a small team with deep domain knowledge plus modern AI tooling — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, custom harnesses — can ship at a velocity that used to require a 30-person engineering org. BriteBuild is product zero. More to come.

  • Methodology built around agentic workflows: harness loops, structured prompts, custom skills.
  • Operator empathy by default — every product starts with someone who actually ran the business it serves.
  • Vertical SaaS focus: residential solar today, adjacent operator categories next.

Gold Rush Energy Solutions · 2013 — 2024

The decade that made the engineer.

Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer.

I co-founded Gold Rush Energy Solutions and ran it as COO for eleven years. Drove the company past $130M in lifetime revenue, owned the Salesforce enterprise build as SCRUM master and lead developer, and brought home El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce 2018 Startup of the Year and multiple industry awards along the way.

lifetime revenue
$130M
tenure
11 yrs
  • Salesforce enterprise implementation — owned the whole lifecycle: requirements, schema, automation, reports, user training, change management.
  • Built a Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) solar tool: kWh-based quoting that bypassed lead funnels and salespeople. White-labeled the tool for real estate agents and adjacent contractors.
  • Backend product management system with a matrix of equipment dependencies — every quote tailored, every option real.
  • Partnerships with Tesla, Enphase, IronRidge, SolarEdge, Sunrun, Generac, Panasonic, LG, Sonnen, PG&E.
  • Self-taught Apex, LWC, and SQL across the years — the engineering muscle the next chapter would run on.

Placerville Food Co-op · Board service

Raised $1.3M to buy the building.

Vice President & Secretary · Board of Directors.

Volunteer board service at the Placerville Food Co-op. Led the member-capital campaign that raised roughly $1.3 million to purchase the building the co-op operates from, locking in the co-op's long-term home and giving members an equity stake in the real estate behind their grocery.

capital raised
$1.3M
outcome
building purchased
role
VP & Secretary
  • Designed and ran the member-capital raise — structuring the offering, the disclosures, and the member-communication plan.
  • Worked alongside the board to underwrite the purchase, model debt service, and align governance with the new asset on the balance sheet.
  • Serving simultaneously as Vice President AND Secretary — the operating role that keeps the board running and the legal-record role that keeps it defensible.
  • Bringing operator discipline (the same playbook from Gold Rush) to a member-owned organization: clear numbers, real decisions, less drama.

The Band Room · 2018 — present

A small venue that became a town fixture.

Co-founder.

Built and ran an intimate live-music and arts venue in Placerville. Same playbook as the software work: do the unglamorous parts well, show up every night, and trust that compound interest applies to communities too.

role
co-founder
  • Programming, sound, marketing, and the lights — whatever the night needed.
  • Became a cultural anchor for the hometown that raised me.

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