Step 01
Frame
Align on scope, constraints, and success criteria so the build answers the right questions from day one.
Hi, I'm Chris.
Senior product engineering, accelerated by AI.
I use modern AI tools to go from brief to working product faster than traditional approaches, without trading off quality or technical judgment.
I partner with founders and product leaders to ship ambitious ideas — combining senior engineering experience with AI-augmented workflows that compress timelines and raise the bar on output.
Velocity
AI-augmented workflows take ideas from brief to deployed product in days, not months.
Signal
Analytical interfaces, maps, and dashboards designed to surface what matters quickly.
Leverage
Senior engineering plus AI means more output, faster — without the quality risk of moving too fast.
CL
Product engineer and AI builder
Ship ambitious products faster — with senior judgment guiding every decision.
Available for focused engagements with founders and product teams who need to move fast without compromising on craft.
Focus PoC apps, AI tools, data products
Best fit Founders, product leaders, innovation teams
Primary CTA Discuss your initiative
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20+
Products shipped on time
Across civic tech, enterprise, and geospatial analytics — each delivered to scope.
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7+
Years in product engineering
Building data-rich, interaction-heavy products with AI as a core part of the workflow.
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100%
On-time delivery
Disciplined scope and AI-assisted development keep projects predictable and on track.
Engagement process
A lean model for moving fast on high-stakes product work.
AI-assisted at every phase, with senior judgment keeping quality and scope in check.
Step 02
Build
Ship a working product using AI-augmented workflows — faster timelines, higher quality, and full visibility throughout.
Step 03
Transfer
Hand off clean, documented code with architecture rationale so your team can own and scale it confidently.
Trusted by teams
Proven across public sector, research, enterprise, and product teams.
AI doesn't replace senior judgment — it amplifies it. The result is better output, shipped faster.
Decisive pace
AI tools across the full build cycle — design, engineering, and QA — compress timelines without sacrificing the technical quality your stakeholders will scrutinize.
Crafted execution
Full-stack product engineering across data visualization, interfaces, and APIs, delivered with senior judgment at every layer from architecture to production code.
Senior leverage
One engineer who has shipped 20+ products and knows which decisions matter — using AI as a force multiplier, not a shortcut.
Selected work
Case studies ranked by strategic depth.
A flagship build, followed by supporting studies and additional project snapshots.
Flagship case study
USDA NASS Explorer
A data-rich product for exploring crop yield history, state-by-state comparisons, and supporting metrics in a unified spatial interface.
- Role
- Product design, front-end engineering, data visualization
- Outcome
- Delivered a spatial analytics experience that made cross-state trend analysis faster and easier for non-technical stakeholders.
- D3
- React
- Maps
- Product design
Core case study
UK Political Atlas
A constituency-level product that translates fragmented political signals into a clear map, filter system, and representative view.
Outcome: Turned fragmented political context into a single explorable view for faster constituency-level analysis.
Core case study
Hurricane Sandy Analysis
A weather analysis prototype combining time, geography, and storm intensity in one view to support rapid pattern recognition.
Outcome: Unified temporal and spatial weather signals to support rapid risk interpretation and scenario review.
Additional projects
Compressed summaries of related work.
Enterprise systems
Customer Journey in Salesforce
An enterprise service blueprint clarifying handoffs, user touchpoints, and operational complexity for stakeholder alignment.
Trade intelligence
TradeNet Wheat Exports
A market-oriented dashboard for understanding export behavior and shipment movement through concise comparative views.
Writing
Notes on engineering, design systems, and product thinking.
Essays and practical writing that extend the same concerns as the portfolio work: clarity, systems, and implementation.
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Nov 12, 2025
Building Confidence in Mobile Deployments with Maestro E2E Testing and Percy Visual SnapshotsA React Native team’s journey to AI-assisted testing, visual truth, and cross-functional confidence.
Mar 27, 2025
Design System Automated Testing with Percy.io and StorybookUsing Percy.io to automate screenshot testing across Storybook and a matrix of browsers and screen sizes
Mar 23, 2025
Design System 101 for a StartupLessons learned in building a scalable design system for a startup
Mar 19, 2025
Enhancing Design Collaboration in a Small Remote Team with Percy, Playwright, and FigmaWorking in a remote company with limited design resources comes with its fair share of challenges, especially when it comes to maintaining consistency across design and development
Patents
Product thinking that made it all the way into filed IP.
This section helps frame the portfolio as invention work, not just implementation.
US 10,860,954
Roomfinder Platform
A mobile reservation workflow that uses OCR to identify a conference room, surface its live schedule, and book the room or suggest nearby alternatives when it is unavailable.
US 10,747,760
Method and System for Tracking Virtual Reality Experiences
A visualization and analytics system for VR experiences that captures user movement and position data, then turns those signals into heat maps and reviewable behavioral patterns.
US 10,482,130
Three-dimensional Tree Diagrams
A method for rendering hierarchical data as three-dimensional tree diagrams by positioning nodes and edges with structural constraints to improve readability and analytical exploration.
Contact
Need a senior product engineer who ships fast with AI?
If you have a product idea, internal tool, or data challenge, a brief conversation is the fastest way to align on scope and what's possible.