The bottleneck in software engineering is shifting from code to coordination. Models run 24/7 and you can spin up as many as you want. The limit isn't compute or talent, it's management. Engineering leadership is starting to look more like directing swarms of agents than reviewing code.

I'm Engineering Lead and Scrum Master at Request Network. We're a 5-person engineering team shipping payments infrastructure, and most of our work is already AI-augmented. The share keeps growing.

13+ years across embedded systems, defense, speech recognition, and the last 5 years in blockchain and payments. First technical hire at Request Network in 2022; helped rebuild the engineering function from scratch.

I care about clear async communication, radical candor, and not overengineering things. Remote work only.

Find me online as MantisClone.

• Adapting Jeffrey Emanuel's Agentic Coding Flywheel to a team setting. Jeff built it for a solo builder. The interesting question is what breaks when you add a shared codebase, code review across humans, and stakeholders who didn't sign up to be agent-orchestrators.
• Sprint automation. Meeting notes into issues, retros into action items, standups into Geekbot updates. Closing the gap between what gets decided and what gets tracked.
• Self-improving Claude Code skills for the workflows I touch most: sprint planning, code review, message drafting.

• Request Network (Nov 2022 - Dec 2025) — Senior Blockchain Engineer. First technical hire; oversaw development of batch payouts, crosschain, crypto-to-fiat, subscriptions, and commerce escrow.
• Ocean Protocol — Maintained ocean.py SDK, aquarius, and provider. Shipped Ocean ONDA V4.
• Freelance via Mantis Data Solutions — Clients included OceanDAO, BanklessDAO, and TalentDAO.
• Think-A-Move — Cross-platform on-device speech recognition system and native Android apps.
• Northrop Grumman — GUI integration testing, low-latency networking, hardware emulation, embedded image processing.
• Rockwell Automation

• Opolis Member

BS Computer Engineering & Computer Science — University of Wisconsin-Madison