Webby-nominated software engineering expert, author, and creator of SudoLang, an AI programming language.

With over 10 years of experience deploying AI models at scale to millions of users, I've built and trained production AI models, and was an early pioneer of prompt engineering and AI Driven Development (AIDD). I build systems where AI and human creativity meet.

• Founder and CEO, Parallel Drive - Building AI agents for software. See The aidd Framework
• Engineering Manager, Generative AI for Adobe Firefly (ran all of Firefly Client for most of 2024)
• Tech Lead on a social video AI app spun out of Stanford Research Institute (Webby nominated for our work on the Wall Street Journal WorldStream in 2012)
• JavaScript Expert and consultant for software development productivity and AIDD
• Crypto, blockchain, and application security leadership — Magic Labs (strategic advisor), MyCrypto (security architecture), Exodus Wallet (Director, dApp integration), Chase Bank (TDD training, quality engineering)
• Advisor and engineering leader for emerging tech startups
• E-Commerce architected the Zumba Fitness shopping cart, including checkout UX refinements that improved conversion rates by >$1 million/month
• AI engineering since 1998 — continuous learning classifiers, natural language understanding, state-of-the-art video-to-text (2012), GenAI UX architecture, prompt-engineering pioneer, music-recommendation systems, autonomous drone flight

• Author of “Composing Software” and “The Art of Effortless Programming”
• Speaker, mentor, and open source advocate
  • Spoke at the first Prompt Engineering Conference
  • Discussed SudoLang on the DevTools.fm podcast

• AIDD Framework — The standard framework for AI Driven Development
• riteway — Test-driven development for AI and JavaScript
• SudoLang Specification and Syntax Highlighting - The most popular pseudolanguage for agent prompting and AI Driven Development
• cuid2 — Collision-resistant IDs for distributed systems

I can help you bring your app to market, make sure it's secure, and help you automate your software engineering process. Services include strategic advise for startups, security reviews, software engineering automation, AI integrations, etc. Reach out via ParallelDrive.com.

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