About

Not because someone handed me a spec and a deadline, but because something was broken, or missing, or could be better, and the curiosity wouldn't let me leave it alone.

ShirePath started less than a year ago, but the work started long before that. I've been building software professionally for years across C#/.NET, React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Python. From enterprise integrations at Axon to donor data pipelines at DonorSearch to consulting across cloud and digital transformation at Neudesic, and youth sports operations on the side. At some point I realized the pattern: I keep ending up as the person who looks at a broken system and says “I'll just build something better.”

So that's what ShirePath is. A studio where I build software and systems for real problems, usually ones I'm facing myself. I run operations for a youth flag football league in Southern California, so I built the platform to manage it. I wanted Bible reading to feel like an RPG, so I built that. I wanted to send my family a Christmas card that actually meant something, so I built an AI app that writes and narrates personalized stories. Right now I'm wiring a Whoop band to a glucose monitor to figure out what my body actually does with the food I eat.

The pattern is always the same: curiosity turns into obsession, obsession turns into “why doesn't this exist?” and then I build it.

I'm not trying to build the next unicorn. I'm trying to build a portfolio of things that matter. To me, to the communities I'm part of, and to the people who have the same problems I do. Some of them will become real products. Some of them will teach me something and end up on the shelf. Both outcomes are fine.