Taylor Hodge

@hodge.bsky.social

Striving to create that in the presence of which we feel more alive Software gardener/eng: http://getprimitive.ai ↝ SwellAI, Rupa Health, Narrative Science, WorkOS

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Rise of the Spirit of Independence American Bicentennial, 1976 U.S. Postage 8¢ #1477

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One more time — I'm looking for new consulting clients. Some ways I can help: ∙ Fractional tech leadership (tackling "leadership debt" in small eng orgs) ∙ Full-stack, 0 to 1 projects ∙ Language design & impl (eg with @ohmjs.org) ∙ JavaScript/TypeScript perf (🔁 appreciated)

Patrick Dubroy@dubroy.com · 5mo ago

Also I finally put together a consulting/ page, for anyone who's interested in working with me. dubroy.com/consulting/ Did I mention I still have availability this year? 😇

Consulting
I do technical advising and freelance development for companies big and small.

Some recent examples:

Part-time advising for a small startup, doing regular 1-on-1s with the CTO and selected ICs. Advised on technical architecture and team issues, and helped them hire a Head of Engineering and their first Staff Engineer.
Worked with HCI pioneer Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and his research group to build a fully incremental processing pipeline for Asciidoc with Ohm.
For a research group investigating parametric CAD/CAE systems, implemented a GPU-based interpreter (in Rust and WGSL) for rendering implicit surfaces.
For engineering projects, I’m especially interested in work where I can combine my deep systems expertise with frontend development and UX work.

AI agents let me move with incredible velocity, but it is easy for my understanding of the codebase to fall hopelessly behind. What got built? How does it work? How might we stay in the loop and avoid gradual disempowerment? Can we build systems that allow understanding to keep pace with creation?