Essays

    Writing

    Forward Deployed Engineering, fractional CTO work, agentic AI, and building software that ships.

    1. Agentic AI9 min read

      Production MCP Servers

      Lessons from running MCP servers on Esferas, UseFireApp, and Log Cannon: routing traps, auth tradeoffs, tool text that lies, and errors a model can act on.

    2. Forward Deployed Engineering6 min read

      Forward Deployed Engineers for AI Companies

      Why AI companies put engineers inside customer operations, what that work looks like when the product is agents, and how it sits next to fractional CTO work.

    3. Leadership5 min read

      From Army Officer to Software Founder

      Fifteen years as a Field Artillery officer in the Florida Army National Guard, and the specific habits from it that changed how I plan, review work, run incidents, and pick what to build.

    4. Fractional CTO5 min read

      Vibe Coding Rescue

      What turns up when I audit an app built with Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor, the order I fix it in, and when I tell a founder to stop.

    5. Fractional CTO5 min read

      What a Fractional CTO Does for Agentic AI

      What a $4,000–8,000 monthly fractional CTO engagement covers for agentic AI, why prompt changes need measuring before they ship, and when to hire someone else.