Hi, I'm Jeff, an AI-native engineer.

I turn AI demos into systems that hold up in production.

Where I come in

The layer between raw AI and a decision you can defend.

A vague problem becomes a working prototype in days, then hardens into tooling that's observable, auditable, and cost-aware.

01 / 06 — Selected Work

Marvel: Guardians of the Galaxy

Gyroscope-driven parallax ad with multi-layer depth, DeviceMotion API, and cross-platform fallback

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Experience

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Trending Society

AI Platform Engineer & Founder

Building an AI-native media company and the tooling behind it: multi-agent content pipelines, an MCP connector platform, and a publishing stack engineered for AI search.

2024 - Present

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Interactive Brokers

Sr. UI/UX Developer & Project Manager

Built front-end components and handled creative compliance for the marketing team, then led the revamp of the firm's internal sales CRM.

2023 - 2024

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VanderHouwen

Sr. Front End Developer

Built responsive React interfaces for blockchain and digital-asset platforms with integrated internal APIs, and managed the HubSpot CMS for marketing landing pages.

2023

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Fluent

Sr. Front End Developer

Built dynamic creative frameworks tied to campaign KPIs that lifted conversion 30%, and shipped an A/B testing framework that cut prototyping time 50%.

2020 - 2023

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Perion (Undertone)

Sr. Creative Developer / Client Solutions

Built interactive brand campaigns for Fortune 500 advertisers including HBO, Audi, Marvel, Delta, and Porsche, shipping high-impact creative across premium publishers.

2014 - 2020

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Zeta Global

Creative Development Manager

Media Operations Manager

Junior Engineer

Rebuilt the company's responsive template system and trained a global creative production team, driving a 65% increase in mobile conversions.

2013 - 2014

2012 - 2013

2012

Brands I've built for

Latest writing

Building a Commit Guard for AI Agents That an Adversary Can't Slip Past

I gave a coding agent a guard that checks every commit lands in the repo and branch I intend. My 417 tests were all green. Then I hired a second agent to break it, and it walked through two holes the green suite never thought to check.

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Graph Engineering Makes Agent Failure Legible, Not Agents Reliable

A video making the rounds argues graph engineering supersedes the loop-based agent pattern. After building multi-agent systems, I think the loop-versus-graph framing asks the wrong question. Topology decides whether you can SEE a failure, not whether one happens. Reliability lives in the deterministic checks at the edges, not in how you wire the agents.

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Claude Desktop vs Cowork vs Code: A Beginner's Roadmap to Which One to Use

Claude Desktop, Cowork, and Code look interchangeable. The real difference is what survives when the session ends, and that decides which one to build in.

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Remote-Controlling AI Coding Agents From Your Phone: What's Real, What It Costs, and Where It's Going

For fifty years, controlling a computer meant sitting at it. AI coding agents broke that. Here''s how I drive my agents from my phone, what it actually costs, the local-vs-cloud distinction, and why this turns you from an operator into a conductor.

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Running Multiple AI Coding Agents in Parallel: A System for Safe, Self-Merging PRs

Running several AI coding agents on the same repo turns into a coordination problem fast. Here's the system I built to keep them isolated, review each other's work, and merge their own pull requests safely.

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Why I'm Building AI Education for Kids

I didn't think I'd hear back from Runway. Then this morning, I got accepted into their Builders program. Reflecting on why this mission is personal, and how we can ensure kids don't get left behind in the AI era.

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Advisory and hands-on builds for teams putting AI into production.

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