Ten million myQ users stream video through a platform I helped build. These days I'm building Aeris Labs — software for people on a mission. These are my stories.
Say hiI was part of the startup company that created the Wi-Fi camera industry — before “smart home” was a phrase anyone said out loud. The platform we built didn’t stay a prototype: it powers Chamberlain Group’s video services today, behind the myQ app and its more than ten million users.
If you have a garage door opener and live in North America, chances are you already own something I worked on.
For years, digital video was my deepest specialty: livestreaming and recorded playback, MSE and HLS, H.264, Opus, PCM, G.711. At some point I wanted to see what was really inside the files, so I wrote a tool that dissects MP4 containers down to the last byte.
It got granular enough that I ended up sending feedback to digital camera chip manufacturers about what their silicon was writing. When a video wouldn’t play and nobody could say why, I was the one who read the bytes and found out.
I design systems that are meant to be lived in, not demoed: multi-tenant, internationalized, instrumented from day one. I’ve architected a platform that ships in nineteen languages, and built a language-translation management app for a $700 million organization.
Telemetry and KPIs go in at the design stage, because you can’t improve what you can’t see.
My favorite piece of client feedback ever: a former client asked me to detune their search engine optimization, because organic search was bringing in more inquiries than they could handle.
I love helping underdogs get found — small organizations and non-profits most of all. That instinct eventually became a company: Aeris Labs, a web and software studio for churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations.
Well into my career, I spent seven months studying artificial intelligence under an industry-leading professor and earned Caltech’s certificate in AI and Machine Learning. Most of my hands-on AI work is computer vision and structured data — models that look at things and models that reason over tables.
I’m also a certified Snowflake SnowPro, because a model is only as good as the data platform underneath it.
The newest tool in my kit is the large language model, and I’ve put in the hours to get genuinely good with it. Not “vibe coding” — accepting whatever the model exhales and shipping it — but AI woven into serious, enterprise-grade development: architecture first, code review always, tests that gate, standards that don’t bend.
Even the company that owns the world’s favorite code-hosting platform is publicly struggling to hold that line. The difference isn’t the model — it’s the hand holding it. This site, and the rendering engine underneath it, were built exactly this way.
I’ve shipped software for government, non-profit, and for-profit clients at every scale that exists: dynamic web content for a frozen yogurt shop on one end, enterprise systems for a $700 million organization on the other.
The budgets differ by several zeros. The craft is exactly the same, and both clients got all of it.
These days I pour all of that experience into Aeris Labs, my web and software studio for churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations. We design, build, host, and care for websites; we build custom software, data platforms, and AI; and we make TrueBoard, board-governance software that gives boards a permanent memory.
When people want to build something with me, aerislabs.org is the door — you get me, plus the whole studio.
This site is my workshop. It runs on AerisForge, the rendering engine I built, and the water in the banner is a hand-written canvas simulation — go ahead, click it.
Mostly, I like hard problems — especially the kind that need someone who can set strategy in a boardroom and still read the bytes when something breaks. Find me on LinkedIn — and when I write, it's on the Aeris Labs blog.
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If it turns out to be bigger than a message, Aeris Labs is where I build things with people.
