Dispatches from the work

Senior Staff at ZenGRC; Scratchpad has no engineering levels above Senior. I joined to build the Clearskies platform: I write specs, architect major features, and I'm the #1 contributor on both the frontend and the backend.

#1 contributor to both the Clearskies frontend (Vue 3/TypeScript/Electron) and backend (Go/Temporal/Postgres/MCP): 1,705 merged PRs and ~990 reviews across six repos in two years.

Scratchpad builds AI tooling for revenue teams; Clearskies (clearskies.cc) is its agent and workflow platform — 'the context layer for revenue AI' — reachable from Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini over MCP.

• Clearskies Workflows. Architected and built most of Clearskies Workflows, the product's core automation engine, end to end across a Vue Flow canvas and a Go/Temporal backend — growing it in ~8 months from CRUD to a graph-driven execution engine with 10+ node types, nested/parallel loops, scheduled and CRM-change triggers, dry-run test runs and versioned drafts. Replaced the hardcoded trigger→agent→Slack sequence with topological execution over the workflow DAG, so any node can run anywhere in the graph.
• AI Workflow Builder. Built the natural-language AI Workflow Builder — an LLM agent that generates and edits workflow graphs from chat and Slack — and made it reliable with publish-time validation and self-repair loops, an LLM semantic auditor, and a staged migration to native tool calling routed through the MCP server; then led its retirement (−28.5k lines) in favor of a headless builder running inside customers' own Claude and ChatGPT.
• Agent evals. Stood up LLM evaluation for the builder agent — from a Braintrust harness to an in-house framework with structural scorers, an LLM user-simulator for multi-turn disambiguation and a run-comparison UI — and gated prompt and tool changes on it.
• Human Review. Wrote the spec for and led Human Review: agent actions that touch Salesforce, Slack or email pause durably on Temporal until a named reviewer approves them, with reviewer notifications and production monitoring — ~70 PRs across frontend and backend in five weeks.
• Agent technical evaluations. Led technical evaluations of emerging agent approaches, including sandboxed coding agents (Codex, Claude Code), with a focus on credential isolation and least-privilege tokens.

Selected within months of joining to architect the next-generation GRC/compliance platform, ZenGRC Pro, and grew it from first commit to a production product built by ~10 engineers.

• ZenGRC Pro. Architected and bootstrapped ZenGRC Pro from scratch (Next.js, Material UI, PostgreSQL, Postgraphile/GraphQL) in partnership with the chief architect, then served as principal engineer and reviewer on every PR as the team grew to ~10 engineers.
• Typed GraphQL layer. Designed the typed GraphQL data layer — Postgraphile with TypeScript codegen and generated react-query hooks — giving the whole team one consistent, strongly typed API surface.
• Next.js router call. Chose the mature Next.js Pages Router over the then-unstable App Router after memory leaks and slow compiles showed up in an early build, and engineered a migration path so the switch could happen later at low cost.
• With no designers left at the company, owned UX and visual design: rebuilt the theme with light/dark modes and overhauled layouts across the product.
• Architected a new external Trust Center product on Next.js 15 / React Server Components for performance and SEO.

Six years across the platform, developer docs, open-source frameworks and customer console as Moovweb became Layer0 and then Edgio.

• Core contributor to the Layer0 Console (React/Material UI over a Rails GraphQL API): site-metrics dashboards, mobile-responsive UI, and support flows integrating Intercom, PagerDuty, reCAPTCHA and S3.
• Co-designed the Layer0 docs app (Next.js) and extended framework support to Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Angular and Spartacus; improved service-worker prefetching.
• Key contributor to React Storefront, an open-source eCommerce PWA framework — reusable component library held at 100% Jest coverage.
• Led MoovCheckout, an injectable React checkout, including an Express MITM dev proxy for developing against live production sites.