What I Like Building & Tinkering With
Combining 17 years in B2B tech with the day-to-day realities of teaching music and building software I actually use.
Software for Real Problems
Building clean, focused tools for families, educators, and music studios—prioritizing simple workflows over bloated enterprise features.
Payments & Subscriptions
17 years of hands-on experience with recurring billing systems, Stripe integrations, merchant acquiring, and multi-party payout flows.
Pragmatic AI Tools
Using LLMs where they genuinely remove hours of manual typing—like document adaptation, metadata scraping, and automated drafts—not as marketing hype.
Audio & Pedagogy Tech
Designing studio tools that solve real teaching frictions, such as uncompressed WebRTC audio for instruments and painless assignment tracking.
Featured Projects
A look at software I've built to solve actual problems for myself, my family, and my students.
Teach Weave
K-12 Teaching Resource Marketplace
A modern alternative to Teachers Pay Teachers. Fair creator fees (15% vs TPT's 45%), one-click TPT listing migration, and opt-in AI reading level adjustments.
Bank of Gaga
Informal Family Loan Tracker
Replaces awkward family loan spreadsheets and napkins with clear agreements, automatic schedules, and a pretend stock market simulator for kids.
Teaching Sax
Wind Studio Management Software
A virtual studio tool built for my own saxophone students. Features low-latency uncompressed audio so held notes don't get muted, plus simple calendar sync.
Truths & Lies: AI Edition
Father-Son Prompt Engineering Game
A two-truths-and-a-lie trivia game built with my 8-year-old son using Gemini. Features live Smartboard speed contests and an AI moderation filter for classroom meme slang.
About Me
I've spent the last 17 years working across B2B tech—starting out in sysadmin and support, moving into product, and spending the bulk of my career leading sales engineering and solutions consulting teams. I've spent years knee-deep in recurring subscription billing, embedded payments, cybersecurity awareness, video surveillance, and hosting infrastructure.
Before my detour into tech, my training was in music. I hold a music education degree and served as a high school and middle school band director (my primary instrument is the saxophone). In many ways, building good software feels just like teaching music: you break down a complex, messy problem into clear pieces, remove the friction, and build a rhythm so people can do their work without fighting the tools.
Based in San Antonio, Texas, I spend my spare time building personal software products, running my private saxophone studio, and testing out what's genuinely useful with AI.
Get in Touch
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