I build platforms, taking products from zero to one and then from one to scale. I'm an engineer in Chicago working in healthcare. I care about platform architecture, developer experience and shipping things people use.
- Grew the engineering team from 5 to 30+.
- Led the move from a fragmented, multi-brand digital footprint to one unified Digital Commerce Platform for a $4B healthcare organization with 1,400+ locations in 48 states. The first wave cut 30+ separate deployments to 7.
- 📖 Read the case study: Digital Commerce Platform →
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| 🛒 GroceryTrack | My first solo product, built from zero. It reads grocery receipt photos with AI, then tracks items, prices and spending over time. I built the apps, web, backend, data jobs and infrastructure myself. |
| 🎬 Tinycap | A small, native macOS menu-bar screen recorder and screenshot tool. It records a window, screen, area or connected iPhone to MP4/WebM/GIF, and it's private by default. I built it while making GroceryTrack. brew install --cask soleo/tap/tinycap |
| 👻 bogyman | A CLI that tells you which of your Claude Code and Codex agent sessions needs you, on what, and for how long. I built it while working with AI agents on GroceryTrack. brew install soleo/tap/bogyman |
| 📟 Habibi (in progress) | A fun hardware project: a retro, pager-style handheld for group voting. Use it for yes/no calls, rating a film screening or scrum poker, in groups from 4 people to a 300-seat theater. It has an e-ink screen, five rubber keys and a bright yellow 3D-printed case. Handsets send votes wirelessly over ESP-NOW (ESP32-C6) to a Raspberry Pi hub. |
Both dev tools came from problems I hit while building a product on my own. When I hit a tool gap, I build the tool (why I built Tinycap and bogyman →). Now I'm taking the same zero-to-one approach to hardware.
I write about platform architecture, scaling teams and building products solo on my blog and Medium. Start here:
- Case study: Digital Commerce Platform: unifying a multi-brand footprint into one platform for 1,400+ locations
- Why I built Tinycap and bogyman: dev tools that came out of building GroceryTrack
⚡ Fun fact: I'm terrible at driving and riding. I once hit a tree biking to work. · Buy me a coffee