Head of Engineering @ Efficient App · Founder of Layerbase

🦬🗽 WNY → 🌉 SF → 🤠 ATX

Every database in seconds - the database management platform for developers

Layerbase is a database management ecosystem supporting 20+ engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and more) across CLI, desktop, and cloud. Native binaries, no containers, no runtimes.

• SpinDB - CLI database package manager replacing Docker, Homebrew, and DBngin for local development
• Layerbase Desktop - Cross-platform database IDE for macOS, Windows, and Linux with visual management and query editing
• Layerbase Cloud - Serverless platform for instant database instances

Packages I maintain on npm

Mostly TypeScript and Node.js - React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Tailwind, PayloadCMS on the front, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite behind it, shipped on AWS and Vercel. C# was my first language, and Go, Rust, and Zig are where I spend my curiosity budget.

My open source projects

Open source projects I contribute to

• 🐀 I love rats and have had 10 as pets
• 🛹 I'm a skateboarder
• 🎸 I play guitar
• 💼 I owned a debt collection agency for nearly a full decade before selling it to pursue software engineering full time
• 🏆 My startup DebtOS was a 2020 Pioneer Startup Competition winner
• 💙 My favorite language is TypeScript, my first language was C#
• 🛠️ My favorite thing to build is developer tooling

• Layerbase - Database management platform supporting 20+ engines across CLI, desktop, and cloud

• Narro Automation - Custom Business Automation (2018 - 2020)

• DebtOS - SaaS startup for Accounts Receivable Management Automation (2019 - 2022)

• Ashland Development, LLC - Technology Focused ARM agency (2012 - 2019) [Sold Dec 2019]

• Lead Engineer - Products Team | Biopharma
• IC - Stealth Startup | AI Video Processing
• IC Contractor - Funded Startup | AI Infrastructure

• Becoming the person that I needed when I started
• Project NextApp (beta) needs some testers
• Leaving stability to bootstrap a SaaS startup
• How to Become a Debt Buyer
• 15 Lessons I Learned as an Entrepreneur

• DebtOS - SaaS startup for Accounts Receivable Management Automation (2019 - 2022) • 2020 Pioneer Startup Competition Winner
• Project NextApp - A hub for programmers to grow and learn together