Oct 2024 – Present
Founder & Chief Engineer
PocketCloud | Utah,
United States
I’m the founder of Clever Coding and the creator of PocketCloud, an open-source, local-first AI
platform designed to help people run private AI on their own hardware.
PocketCloud is built around AI sovereignty: your data, your models, your device, your rules. The
platform starts with Apple Silicon and is expanding across Linux, Unix, and Windows. It brings
together local inference, hybrid AI routing, developer tooling, observability, Swift-native
apps, and practical starter applications for building real private AI experiences.
After years of building custom software, mobile apps, cloud systems, and AI-enabled products
through Clever Coding, I’m now focused on launching PocketCloud as a foundation for developers,
small businesses, creators, and communities who want powerful AI without surrendering privacy,
ownership, or control.
Sep 2024 – Present
Utah, United States
Designed and built PocketMind v1.0, a native local AI assistant. Established initial abstractions
for on-device prompt formatting, model caching, and private vector store indexing.
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- Built PocketMind, an on-device AI assistant for iOS supporting Llama 3.2, Phi 3.1 Mini, and Gemma 2 2B Instruct.
- Implemented dynamic switching between local and cloud models, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini APIs.
- Developed session memory, customizable model selection, and secure API key management for users.
- Used MLX and Llama.cpp for native iOS inference, optimizing local model responsiveness and user privacy.
- Led full lifecycle: architecture → design → deployment → marketing, achieving strong adoption and feedback.
Jun 2023 – Nov 2024
VP of Engineering
Nerd | Lehi, Utah,
United States
I joined Nerd as the ~200th hire, but just weeks later, 60 employees were let go as the startup
began the slow burn of running out of cash. Knowing the odds, I only hired a small, highly
capable team focused on raw talent and execution. I held that core team together down to the
last 20 employees before being forced to resign over unpaid wages—prompting the rest of the
leadership team to follow within weeks.
Despite the ship burning down around us, my team successfully delivered the first purely
Web3 app to come out of Nerd, which is still being used by all 12 supported blockchains
today.
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Focus Areas: Smart Contracts, Backend Architecture, Frontend Development, NFTs, AI Integration, Project & Product Management
Tech Stack: Solidity, Go, React/Next.js
- Architecture & Design: Led the decision-making process for selecting and implementing the appropriate tech stack and architecture.
- Development Team Leadership: Managed a high-performance development team responsible for writing smart contracts, backend services, and frontend apps.
- Project & Product Oversight: Worked closely with the Project Manager and Product Manager to align the technology roadmap with business goals.
- Innovation: Spearheaded the development of cutting-edge NFTs based on the ERC-721 standard and NFT Smart Contracts using the new ERC-6551 standard.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborated with senior management to formulate and execute the overall team strategy.
Jul 2008 – Jul 2023
Chief Executive Officer
Clever Coding |
Lehi, Utah
Founded Clever Coding, a development-for-hire agency. Helped project architect, manage, code, and launch hundreds of apps over 15 years. Over the life of the company, I employed 100+ W2 employees, serving as the primary project manager on most projects and achieving a peak gross yearly revenue of over $2 million.
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My biggest skill is getting projects built and launched. To enable an easier and more streamlined workflow, we created a custom project management, time keeping and invoicing solution to run the company.
To enable rapid development of new projects, we developed the "Starter App" which is a base platform with a web app (Vue/Nuxt/Node/Express) and an iOS App (Swift+Hybrid) and Android App (Kotlin+Hybrid). This product allowed us to jump start new projects while significantly reducing total development cost and time for our clients.
- Helped architect, develop and manage 100's of apps for clients all over the world.
- Advanced skills in iOS (Swift and Objective-C), Android (Kotlin and Java), Vue/Nuxt/Node/Express.
- Managed our AWS account with server management and configuration.
- Helped architect and managed 20+ projects that were large complex platforms involving a cloud base API, web frontend, iOS and Android Apps, each project representing thousands of hours.
- Architected the DB and API for 50+ projects.
- Had 5+ complex projects that interacted with companion bluetooth hardware.
- Experienced in a wide range of technologies and a wide range of types of apps created.
- Designed and coded multiple complex social media platforms.
- Created a wide variety of apps across multiple industries including business, entertainment, social, utilities, legal and medical.
- Designed and developed many apps that used location and mapping.
- Almost all projects were API based involving multiple platforms.
