Get your product from 0 to 1.
PioneerPath is a one-person studio led by a senior architect who designs and builds AI-powered software — and ships working MVPs you can put in front of real customers.
Senior engineering for the whole path — idea, prototype, MVP, and the architecture to scale it.
Most founders don't need a team yet. They need one builder who can own the hard parts and ship something real.
Generative AI Consulting
Turn "we should use AI" into a concrete plan — and the working system behind it. LLMs, RAG, and agents that earn their place in the product.
Prototypes & MVPs
Concept to working product, fast. The thing you can demo, test with users, and raise on — built to hold up, not thrown away.
System Architecture
Backends and cloud infrastructure designed to outlast the prototype: APIs, services, and the decisions that are expensive to undo later.
Custom Software Development
Full-stack delivery across web, mobile, and B2B integrations — end to end, by one person accountable for the result.
Data & Database Solutions
Schema design, pipelines, and search that make your data fast, queryable, and ready for the features you haven't built yet.
Web & Backend Development
Reliable, observable services and clean interfaces — the unglamorous engineering that keeps a product up when customers show up.
Recent builds.
LLM-powered threat-intelligence platform
Designed and built the backend architecture for a threat-intelligence product using LLMs, LangChain, and AWS — taking it from concept to a production-ready MVP across mobile, web, and B2B.
Enterprise platform development
Contributed to Capital One's rewards platform alongside other enterprise client work.
Fixed-scope consulting
Proofs of concept, prototypes, and integrations delivered per engagement, on a defined scope and fee.
A clear path from where you are to a product customers can use.
Map
Understand the idea, the constraints, and what "working" actually means for your customers.
Prototype
A working proof you can put in front of people — fast enough to learn before you over-build.
Build
A production-ready MVP: the backend, data, and integrations that make it real and reliable.
Scale
Architecture and ongoing support so the thing you launched can grow without a rewrite.
Two decades of building, now pointed at early-stage products.
I've spent over 20 years designing and shipping software — large-scale data pipelines and cloud infrastructure at Nike, healthcare data systems at GE, and search and eDiscovery platforms at Epiq. Backend and cloud architecture are home base.
Lately that means AI-powered systems: LLM backends with LangChain on AWS, built to do real work rather than demo well. PioneerPath is where I bring that to founders who need a senior builder to take an idea and make it real.
One person, accountable end to end — from the first architecture decision to the MVP your customers actually touch.
Have an idea that needs building?
Tell me what you're trying to ship. If it's a fit, I'll tell you how I'd approach it — and what it would take to get to a working MVP.