San Francisco · Senior Software Engineer & Founder
Craft at scale,
compliance built in.
I'm Connor. For five years I've translated ambitious UI/UX into production code: flagship product pages for one of the biggest consumer brands on earth, a customer portal for an AI document-intelligence platform, and 50+ interactive experiences for enterprise B2B brands.
The throughline is craft at scale with compliance built in: accessibility tested to WCAG 2.1, HIPAA and GDPR-aware engineering on regulated products, and hands-on AI engineering since 2023. I integrate directly with LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini), often in an incubation role alongside CEOs and leadership, helping teams at Fiction Tribe and TackleAI turn early AI bets into shippable products. I also teach enterprise teams how to adopt AI responsibly. Governance is where AI projects succeed or stall, so I treat it as part of the engineering, not paperwork.
I'm also founding Seatbelt: security scanning and monitoring for AI-generated applications, in a world where everyone is a builder. SAST plus agents, an MCP package for in-editor checks, and continuous monitoring after ship.
Experience
Founder & Senior Engineer
Seatbelt · San Francisco (Remote)
Building Seatbelt (withseatbelt.com): an AI application security platform that combines SAST analysis and AI agents to find vulnerabilities across code execution, auth, payments, secrets, data handling, and databases. Shipping an MCP-compatible npm package for in-editor checks and remediation, plus Active Monitoring for continuous scans of shipped apps, and an offline forge that generates AI-built fixtures to harden detectors through adversarial testing.
Senior Front End Developer (Contract, NDA)
Level Studios · Publicis Groupe · Sunnyvale (Remote)
Production web experiences for a top global consumer electronics company, shipped to hundreds of millions of users. HTML, SCSS, ES6+, and heavy scroll-driven animation (in-house GSAP-style engine) inside proprietary internal systems, with WCAG 2.1 accessibility testing (screen readers included) and pixel-perfect QA.
Senior Developer · AI Incubation (Contract)
TackleAI · Illinois (Remote)
Part of a small incubation team with TackleAI leadership: secure client portal (.NET 8 Blazor, MASV, JWT, SignalR) and TackleBot RAG platform (Next.js 15, Supabase, Gemini RAG). Direct integration with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs where the product required them. Deployed to airgapped Windows/IIS with HIPAA/GDPR-aware practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Fiction Tribe · Remote
Technical leadership and AI incubation: architecture with studio leadership, direct OpenAI and Anthropic platform integration, coding standards, build/deploy improvements, and production incident response at 99.9% uptime.
Software Engineer
Fiction Tribe · Portland (Remote)
50+ production experiences for Cisco, Verizon, Intelsat, AT&T, PoliticoPro, Akamai Security, Fortinet and more. Since 2023, direct integration with OpenAI and Anthropic platforms: built FT Mind and internal AI tooling in an incubation role alongside studio leadership, plus AI automations on LangChain, n8n, and OpenClaw. Delivered AI workshops for IBS Software and Mattermost.
Education
- Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
- Full Stack Web Development
- BS Marketing Management
Contact
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