The bottleneck in software engineering is shifting from code to coordination. Models run 24/7 and you can conjure as many as you want — the limit isn't compute or talent, it's management. Engineering leadership is becoming the practice of directing swarms of agents toward useful work.

I'm Engineering Lead and Scrum Master at Request Network, exploring what that practice looks like in production: a 4-person team shipping payments infrastructure where most of the work is already AI-augmented and 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.

Find me online as MantisClone.

• Adapting Jeffrey Emanuel's Agentic Coding Flywheel to a team setting. The methodology is built for solo builders; the open question is what changes when there's a 4-person team, shared review responsibilities, and stakeholders who didn't sign up to be agent-orchestrators.
• Sprint automation — turning meeting notes into issues, retros into action items, standups into Geekbot updates. Reducing the friction between "what was decided" and "what gets tracked."
• Self-improving Claude Code skills for high-leverage workflows: sprint planning, code review, message drafting, expert review.

• 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