Vessel RJW-1428 · outbound
Principal engineer · AI-native workflows · customer-facing
Ten years underway. Eight gravity assists — every stop bent the trajectory, every stop added speed.
Leg 01 — The trajectory
A career is a flight path. Mine slingshots past eight bodies, and none of the velocity was free.
Mechanical supervisor · Altoona, PA · 2013–2015
Locomotive works — engines, wheelsets, traction motors. The line ran on paper, so I taught myself to code: a production-line data system, then Python automating the CNC quality checks. First burn.
7.2 → 11.4 km/sEngineering technician V · SWRMC, San Diego · 2015–2018
Built a MERN-stack data collection system for the fleet — it earned a U.S. Navy Innovation Award. A commendation pinned at this assist. The software kept outrunning the steel.
11.4 → 15.9 km/sFounder · San Diego · 2016
A digital menu-board startup — real-time boards behind three San Diego bars and two in Philadelphia, updated from any web-connected device. First company, first production users.
15.9 → 21.3 km/sSenior analyst · Life Science Cloud · 2018–2019
Embedded with Life Science Cloud clients — enterprise scale, heavy orbits. Ran discovery on their document-upload pain, then built the automation: client-reported issues down 84%.
21.3 → 26.8 km/sFront-end team lead · via TekSystems · 2019–2021
First chair at the helm. Led three engineers re-architecting the telemetry front-end around NgRx, and wrote a data-collection library that flies on 30 million devices — with D3 instruments to read it, a live map of the country among them. Feature delivery tripled.
26.8 → 33.1 km/sSenior engineer · front-end team lead · 2021–2022
Led a crew of five building the company's first client-facing product — an Angular web and Ionic mobile portal commanding a fleet of robotic safety controllers. The burn that turned a hardware shop into a platform company. Core component library in strict TypeScript and RxJS.
33.1 → 39.9 km/sPrincipal engineer · technical lead · 2022–2025
The resident smart-TV app — one craft docking client UI, third-party apps, television hardware, and external APIs. Built the TV Toolkit debugging suite for devs and QA. AI Academy capstone shipped an XGBoost model: next-action acceptance up 30%.
39.9 → 47.3 km/sPrincipal engineer · AI technical lead · May 2025 →
Current heading. A squad embedded across the X1 org, shipping AI workflows adopted company-wide: an agentic pipeline that cut open vulnerabilities 80%, a spec-driven AI migration of a mission-critical system from Java 8 to 25, AI test repair and generation, an org-wide LLM onboarding tool. Still accelerating.
47.3 → 55.2 km/sLeg 02 — Planetary survey
Systems I built and shipped, each with its own moons. Newest worlds first on approach; they are all still inhabited.
Class — AI · flagship · 2026
A production platform, solo-built. Readers design characters, AI illustrates their stories, and the stories arrive as hardcover books. Below decks: prompt iteration, cost-and-latency tradeoffs, blue/green rollouts, observability — Stripe, Cloudflare, Axiom, and PostHog in the hold. The newest world, and the brightest.
Moons Angular 21 · Tailwind 4 · FastAPI · MongoDB · AWS · Multi-provider AI
myinkwellbooks.comClass — household finance · multi-tenant · 2025
A multi-tenant household ledger — one budget, every hand on deck — live on both app stores. AI coaching reads the spending, push notifications keep the crew honest, and GitHub Actions publishes each release with no hand on the controls.
Moons Flutter · AWS · Gemini · Elasticsearch
Class — cross-platform · AI coach
A goal tracker that flies every deck — iOS, Android, desktop, web — from one Flutter codebase. Built-in AI coaching reads health data, goals, and performance, then checks in and writes the plan. Gemini-powered, Firebase-backed.
Moons Flutter · Gemini · Firebase
github.com/rjw1428/taskrClass — relay station · agent tooling
Not a world — a relay. A locally hosted MCP server handing custom tools to my AI agents; first instrument aboard, a resilient weather cache. Small, cold, always on.
Moons Python · FastAPI · FastMCP
github.com/rjw1428/weather-apiClass — healthcare AI · forward-deployed · 2023
Forward-deployed with Accenture's first entrepreneur-in-residence — a healthcare AI startup. Architected the core product: a pipeline carrying wearable vitals into their AI engine, ETL beneath, B2B and B2C portals above. A world with a pulse.
Moons React · RabbitMQ · Docker · Kubernetes · Azure
rehuman.co.ukClass — SaaS · contractor ops · 2020
JIRA for contractors. Bidding and estimation tracked from first walkthrough to final invoice — dashboards, reports, charting, exports. Built for crews who measure twice.
Moons Angular 12 · NgRx · Node/Express · MySQL
workflowmanagerpro.com · demoDistant objects — catalogued earlier
Leg 03 — Star chart
The instruments aboard, charted the old way — by the stars I actually steer with.
The Interface
Frontend · 8 stars
The Engine
Backend · 7 stars
The Oracle
AI practice · 6 stars
The Keel
Infrastructure · 7 stars
Academy records
Leg 04 — Transmission
The next assist is unplotted. If you're building something worth gaining speed for, send a signal.