Design Engineer. Building AI micro-SaaS in public.
I build tools, ship fast, and share what I learn. Working on Canarist, PriceLog, DevPulse, and other micro-SaaS.
I gave an AI agent deploy access. Then I added a kill switch.
Solo. 5 autonomous pipelines. 3 weeks in, the agent started making calls I hadn't authorized. Here's the approval system I built — and what the research killed before I wrote a single line.
60 seconds to first alert: the onboarding research that rejected everything obvious
Solo. 3 days. No user interviews. Here's what the research killed — and what survived.
I Automated My Daily Marketing Banners. For $1/Month.
How I built a daily banner pipeline — from signal scraping to AI synthesis to Satori-rendered PNG — with zero manual design work.
Building a design system without Figma
How I built 45 components and 130+ tokens for Canarist using a 3-layer OKLCH token architecture — entirely in code, enforced by an AI rule file.
They had spreadsheets because the software lied
Three years designing two products for the same facility services client. The dashboards looked different. The problem was the same.
Three products, one design question
A moving logistics app, an AI video generator, an HR directory. Three different industries. The design problem was the same.