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Work
With Me
I'm Dustin, a full-stack software engineer. My day-job background is enterprise platforms, federal systems and multi-tenant SaaS. I take on a small amount of consulting and contract work in AI, web and software engineering, and you deal with the person doing the work the whole way through.
What I know
AI
LLM features that survive real users, and a straight answer about where a model helps and where it's the wrong tool.
- LLM features in production apps, built on the Claude API
- Structured output, validation and checks against fabricated answers
- Agents, tools and Claude Code plugins
- AI-assisted engineering workflows for a team
- Privacy: what leaves the machine, and what never should
Web
Fast sites and web apps on standard tools, with nothing proprietary to trap you later.
- Web apps, APIs and admin tools
- Serverless on Cloudflare and AWS
- Browser extensions for Firefox, Manifest V3
- Performance, accessibility and SEO built in
- Static sites that cost about nothing to host
Software
Full-stack engineering, from the data model to the deploy, in whatever your codebase already speaks.
- TypeScript, Go and Java
- Postgres and SQLite, schema design and migrations
- Integrations, billing and third-party APIs
- Tests, CI and builds that fail loudly
- Reviving and modernizing old codebases
How I can help
Consulting
You have a team or a plan and want a second engineer's eyes on it. Architecture and code review, an AI feasibility check before you spend the budget, or help getting unstuck on one hard problem.
Contract builds
You need the thing built. I scope it, build it in stages you can see working, and hand over code and documentation that are yours to keep, host anywhere and give to any other developer.
Want proof I ship? The software page has the open-source work. Résumé on request.
Get in touch
Tell me what you need
Write as much or as little as you like. It goes straight to me at [email protected], and I usually reply within a day or two.
What you're trying to do, where it stands now, and your timeline if you have one.
I only use your email to reply. No lists, no sharing.
Got it.
Thanks. I read every message myself and I'll reply from [email protected].