Engineer, strategist, and co-founder at Torta Studios. I help other founders ship faster, scale smarter, and sidestep the traps that kill most startups before they get traction.
Charlotte
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Oct 29, 2026
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3 min read
At the CLT Block Party, Charlotte’s builders brought their demos, and the questions they hadn’t figured out yet.
Oct 22, 2026
Our animation got people to stop and watch. Getting them to come back is the next test.
Oct 15, 2026
2 min read
Thirty rendered cuts later, the expensive part was still my attention.
Oct 8, 2026
A 51-minute recording became a 3:50 story. Now I want to try different footage.
Oct 6, 2026
Our producer, who worked on Homeland and MasterChef hates my AI video-editing workflow.
Sep 29, 2026
We'd built a coding tool to avoid piles of slop, but when I found a flaw in it, I started questioning every line it had already let through.
Sep 24, 2026
Our slackbot had something to add to every exchange. Even when we were trying to get work done.
Sep 22, 2026
1 min read
We built an AI modeled after a fly’s neurons its own torta stand. It beat me at the game I built.
Sep 15, 2026
An idea from our first days as a company, a corner of Charlotte, and the chance to finally build it.
Sep 14, 2026
Torta Studios didn't shut down, but we got busy, changed how we build products, and accidentally launched a web game
