i build the things i want, and share them

i didn't come up through CS. i came from finance, taught myself to build, and worked my way into engineering the hard way, which is probably why i still treat every skill as something you can just go acquire.

a college social network. i spent a year building it and roughly zero days telling anyone it existed. it died with no users. that failure is the foundation of everything i do now: distribution isn't a phase after building. it IS the building.

professionally i build real-time marketing data platforms, java, spark, batch and streaming pipelines on GCP. i'm not trying to escape it tomorrow; it funds the mission and sharpens the skills. it does cap my hours, which forces the real discipline: protect the off hours, and make agents do everything that doesn't need me.

vibedraft and ideaverify are live. behind them is the more interesting build: a claude code workspace of agents doing my founder chores, analysis, idea validation, signal monitoring, content generation, posting, so a solo founder with a day job can operate like a team.

FIRE through indie hacking. recurring revenue over salary, ownership over hours. i publish the real numbers along the way, currently unimpressive, deliberately public, because the record of getting there is the whole point.