Backend by trade, product by habit.
Eight years of backend engineering, from ingestion platforms to pricing engines and the APIs on top of them. Now I run The Flower Shop, a studio where I launch my own AI apps and build backend systems for AI infrastructure.
Owning the stack, prompts to payments.
At The Flower Shop, I launch my own AI apps and build backend systems for AI infrastructure. I built the API-credit rewards system for a privacy-first LLM router. My ring try-on app runs on Gemini image generation, and every prompt change is scored on real hand photos before it ships. That pass rate went from about 50% to 80%.
Data that shows up every morning.
I co-owned the Go ingestion platform behind Messari's APIs, research desk, and AI copilot. It pulled in thousands of documents a day from YouTube, GitHub, social, and news, each one a durable Temporal workflow, so retries and recovery came for free.
Pricing that can't be wrong.
I owned checkout pricing at Alto, a digital pharmacy. The insurance and discount math in Ruby on Rails has to be right before a patient confirms delivery in the React Native app, because a mistake delays someone's medication. The billing operations behind it were done by hand. Automating them removed over half a million dollars a year in cost.
