USMC Captain (Veteran) · AI Engineer · Builder Who Believes

"One disciplined founder + AI agents can out-build bloated teams. Mission accomplishment isn't a suggestion — it's the standard."

I'm a veteran Marine Corps officer turned AI engineer and solo founder who hit 6-figure ARR in 12 months — without a dev team, without a co-founder, and without permission.

The short version:

• 🇺🇸 USMC Captain — Adjutant & Legal Officer. Led Marines in high-friction environments. Former Student Naval Aviator (selected for C-130s).
• 🔬 Scientist by training — Undergraduate Research Assistant at UW Dept. of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, studying the biology of aging.
• 💻 AI engineer — After being burned by an incompetent co-founder and losing a major contract, I learned to code through a veteran coding bootcamp, then attended an AI engineering program. Competed in and placed at international AI hackathons by applying military discipline to code.
• 🚀 Founder of Paladin Front — A mobile, web, and AI agent development agency that replaces 50-person teams with disciplined squads of AI agents.

One founder commanding squads of AI agents to ship mobile apps, web apps, and autonomous systems at agency speed with solo-founder overhead. Custom AI engineering (Computer Vision, LLMs, RAG), full-stack development, and autonomous marketing systems for businesses and faith-led organizations.

A journaling and self-examination app rooted in Christian spiritual formation — Examen, Lectio Divina, and tactical reflection. Helping believers bear the Image of God through daily practice.

I close two gaps most founders and organizations face: capability gaps and moral drift.

Non-technical founders are held hostage by slow, expensive dev teams — or worse, incompetent partners (a lesson I learned the hard way). Meanwhile, the tech being built ignores faith, family, and veteran values.

I replace fragile human teams with disciplined AI agent squads and ship values-aligned products — from B2B SaaS to spiritual formation apps — so high-performance founders and faith-led organizations own their tech instead of renting it.

• 🤖 AGI & Autonomous Agent Architectures — Building the systems where AI agents interact with environments to achieve mission-critical goals.
• 🎮 Game Development — Exploring values-aligned game design that reflects Biblical principles.
• 🥊 Combat Sports — Muay Thai, BJJ, MMA. Constant evolution through tactical discipline.
• ✈️ Aviation — Pilot. The cockpit teaches the same lessons as entrepreneurship: checklists, composure, and commitment.

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I'm passionate about: #veterans 🎗 · #faith ✝️ · #AI 🤖 · #entrepreneurship 💡 · #buildinpublic 🔨

💌 Let's build something that matters. Reach out.