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Twenty years in, still shipping.

I wrote my first production code on technology nobody uses anymore. Since then the ground has moved four times: from the desktop to the web, from the web to phones, from native to cross-platform, and now to code written alongside AI agents. Each time, I learned the new ground by shipping on it. That’s the useful part of twenty years: I’ve seen what lasts and what doesn’t, and I build for the part that lasts.

Along the way the work has taken me to very different places. I’ve built for healthcare in more than one setting, and I’ve built several apps on top of maps, with live location, tracking and people talking to each other in real time. I’ve worked on AI products that create a custom image or soundtrack for each person, on reading apps where the page has to feel right, on interfaces where animation carries the experience, and on a sports betting app, where every second on screen counts. So when a new project lands, there’s a good chance I’ve already met its hardest problem somewhere else.

I also build apps of my own, and today they live under Porto Stack, my studio, from a kids’ allowance app to a fan community where houses duel with cards. AI agents write much of the code now, held to my standards by skills I wrote myself, and every change still goes past me before it ships. A few times a year, I take on an outside project through the studio.

• Healthcare
• Maps and live tracking
• Real-time messaging
• AI-generated images and music
• Reading apps
• Motion and animation
• Sports betting
• Fitness coaching
• Family finance
• Fan communities and games