Work
  • Sep 2025 - Now
    Waveform Records
    Product & Engineering Partner

    Long-term partnership with an independent label building direct-to-fan listening experiences. We own product design and engineering end to end, shipping in weekly cycles alongside their internal team.

    • Built a fan-facing release hub with personalized listening feeds powered by our recommendation stack.
    • Integrated the Spotify Web API for cross-platform playback, library sync, and listening insights.
    • Established the design system now used across all of the label’s digital properties.
  • Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
    Strata Audio
    Platform Architecture & Delivery

    Re-architected the streaming analytics platform of a Series A audio-tech company, moving from a monolithic nightly batch job to a real-time event pipeline.

    • Designed and delivered an event-driven ingestion pipeline processing tens of millions of listening events per day.
    • Cut recommendation refresh latency from 24 hours to under a minute.
    • Ran architecture reviews and pairing sessions to hand the platform over to their in-house team.
  • Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
    Nightjar Media
    Design Systems & Web Platform

    Rebuilt the web platform of a music editorial publisher for performance and consistency, replacing a legacy CMS front end with a static-first Astro architecture.

    • Shipped a token-based design system covering editorial, marketing, and newsletter surfaces.
    • Brought Lighthouse performance scores from the low 60s to a consistent 95+.
    • Trained the editorial team on the new component library and publishing workflow.
  • Jan 2024 - May 2024
    Kilohertz
    MVP Development

    Zero-to-one engagement with a pre-seed podcast discovery startup. We took the founders from a concept deck to a launched product in sixteen weeks.

    • Delivered a clickable working demo by week two and iterated weekly from real user feedback.
    • Built the discovery feed, episode search, and creator onboarding flows end to end.
    • Left the founding team with clean, documented code and a hiring plan for their first engineers.