Software engineering for startups that need things done right — and teams that need to ship.
Iengineer products that work1 and teams that ship2. Twelve years building backends in Go, frontends in React, and the infrastructure that runs both. Hands-on through every stage — from architecture review to the production deploy at midnight.
| Discipline | Stack | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Full-stack product engineering | Go · React · PostgreSQL | 12 |
| Technical leadership | Org design · hiring | 7 |
| AI-powered products | LLMs · embeddings · evals | 3 |
| Startup consulting | Architecture · roadmap | 5 |
Each engagement begins with a fixed-fee scope letter and an explicit “what we’re not building” list. The latter is sometimes the more useful document.
A desktop companion for Magic: The Gathering Arena. Real-time draft pick recommendations, match history tracking, deck performance analytics, metagame insights. Three years of evening-and-weekend work, currently in early access with 800+ active users.
Engineering portfolio and practice page. Statically exported, hosted on AWS S3 + CloudFront. Designed and built from the Ray Hamilton Engineering design system; no off-the-shelf template.
Further drawings — under NDA, or in progress — available on inquiry.
