I build AI products, and I finish them.
I'm Orion — 17, based in Los Angeles, self-taught, shipping since 2023. I take an idea from "this doesn't exist yet" to something installed, deployed, and used: iOS apps, web apps, automation that runs unattended, and workshops that leave a team shipping instead of nodding.
What I actually do
Most of what I've built started as something that annoyed me. A notetaker that wouldn't send my recordings to someone else's server. A way to move a live coding session from my phone to my desk without losing the thread. A library of Claude Code skills written from defects I hit in production, not from a blog post.
I work end to end — design, code, deploy, and the boring parts after. That means Swift for iOS, TypeScript for the web, Python for the pipelines, and whatever infrastructure the thing actually needs. I'd rather ship a small real thing this week than scope a large imaginary one for a month.
I also teach this. Teams hire me to sit with their engineers for two days and get them genuinely productive with AI tooling on their own codebase — real code, real defects, no slideware.
- Based
- Los Angeles, CA — Pacific time
- Started
- 2023, self-taught and ship-first
- Languages
- Swift · TypeScript · Python
- Ships to
- App Store · Cloudflare Pages & Workers · self-hosted
- Shipped
- 10+ products, plus 20 open-source Claude Code skills
- Reply time
- Under 24 hours, personallyNo autoresponders, no drip sequence, no assistant.
Where I'm actually strong
Grouped by what I'd be hired to do, with the work that proves it. If something isn't listed here, I've probably touched it but wouldn't charge you for it yet.
AI engineering
Building on top of frontier models as infrastructure, not as a demo: agent loops that recover from their own failures, evaluation harnesses, prompt and tool design, and pipelines that run for days without a human. Twenty of my Claude Code skills are public and MIT-licensed, each written from a real production defect.
iOS & native
Swift and SwiftUI from empty project to App Store binary — including the parts people skip: provisioning, review, on-device storage, and making a party game feel good in the hand rather than merely function.
Web & product
TypeScript front to back. Marketplaces, client portals, dashboards, and sites that are fast because there's nothing extra in them. Deployed on Cloudflare Pages and Workers with edge functions doing the real work.
Automation & data
Python services that keep running when nobody's watching: trading and research bots, indexers, mail and calendar pipelines, CRMs that populate themselves from the traffic they already receive.
Teaching & workshops
Two-day hands-on sessions for engineering teams adopting AI tooling. We work in your repository on your open defects. The success metric is that people are still shipping this way three weeks later.
Things I've shipped
Twenty free, MIT-licensed Claude Code skills, each written from a defect found in production. Installs with npx toolbay. Also delivered a full platform for a paying client.
Turns Plaud recordings into summaries, key points, people and action items. Runs entirely on your own machine; one-command setup, cross-platform.
Moves a live Claude Code session from any machine to your desktop with a single line. Picked up in about thirty seconds, work continues uninterrupted.
Two-day hands-on Claude Code workshop with the team, in their own codebase. No theory sessions.
Growth automation and AI pipelines: a Cloudflare indexer, mailer and traffic bots, and creator clipping tools.
Players donate camera-roll photos and the group guesses whose is on screen. Devil mode and a Wheel of Consequences.
425-strategy paper-trading system with a self-optimizing ensemble, running continuously alongside a news bot.
Worked the floor for three years: dealt with customers face to face every shift — register, service, restocking, and closing the shop. Then I built Red Fox its first real website, the first site I ever made for an actual business. A clean storefront that opens straight to the shop, so walk-ins and online visitors land in the same place. This is where I learned to handle real customers before I ever learned to handle code.
Cashier at a coffee shop in Aspen (opened and closed with a small summer team); server at Alchemy Café in Santa Monica. Where I learned to show up early.
What you can hire me for
Four shapes of engagement. Everything starts the same way: a fifteen-minute call where we work out whether it's real.
AI products
- iOS apps and games, through App Store review
- Web apps, bots and CLI tools
- Private and self-hosted by default
Claude Code workshops
- Two days, hands-on, in your repository
- Real code and real defects, no slides
- Measured by whether the team keeps shipping
Automation & CRM
- A CRM that feeds itself
- Gmail, Calendar and messaging pipelines
- Jobs that run while you sleep
Sites & deploys
- Fast sites that convert, not template dumps
- One-command deploys
- Cloudflare Pages and Workers
Book a time, or just write
The booking page reads my actual Google Calendar, so every slot it offers is genuinely free — pick one and it's on both our calendars with a video link straight away. If you'd rather write first, that works too.
Book a call
Fifteen minutes. Live availability from my calendar, confirmed instantly.
See open timesSend a note
One line is enough. I reply personally, usually within a few hours.