Principal engineer

Davis E. Ford

Hi! I'm a full-stack engineer with 15+ years building ambitious interfaces and the systems behind them.

Career

  1. 2026 - Now

    Superstack

    Principal Engineer

    Created a Hyperliquid trading platform and spearheaded company Claude/Codex skills and AI workflows.

    Next.js · TypeScript · Rust · AI agents
  2. 2025 - 2026

    Kinetic

    Lead Frontend Engineer

    Led the Solana-based frontend past $100m in volume, including i18n, contests, wallet flows, and a React 19/Next.js 16 stack.

    React · Solana · Web3 · Vercel
  3. 2023 - 2025

    JPMorgan Chase

    Lead Software Engineer

    Created the InfiniteAI Marketplace and launched enterprise AI chatbot interfaces while raising React standards across teams.

    Enterprise AI · React · Lerna · OpenAPI
  4. 2021 - 2023

    Gemini

    Staff Engineer

    Primary web engineer for Earn and Grow products supporting approximately $5b AUM, plus crypto withdrawal infrastructure.

    Next.js · Crypto · Scala · React · Public web
  5. 2019 - 2021

    Capital One

    Manager / Master Software Engineer

    Led a six-person ML platform team, shipped open-source research tooling, and co-invented a source-to-model lineage patent.

    Machine learning · JupyterLab · Team leadership
  6. 2016 - 2019

    Booz Allen Hamilton

    Lead Engineer

    Built healthcare APIs and interfaces handling more than 18m PII submissions from medical personnel.

    Django · React · Electron · pandas
  7. 2014 - 2016

    William J. McCarthy & Associates

    Lead Developer

    Created Real Simple Email, a mass-email management product later sold to external clients.

    jQuery · PHP · MySQL · Third-party APIs

Credentials

Patent

US 11,573,773

Correlating source code commitments and model result records during model development.

Read the patent

Certifications

Deep cloud foundations.

Nine AWS certifications spanning professional, specialty, and associate levels - plus secure software engineering, Scrum, and CompTIA foundations.

  • Solutions ArchitectProfessional
  • DevOps EngineerProfessional
  • Advanced NetworkingSpecialty
  • SecuritySpecialty
  • Big DataSpecialty
  • Solutions ArchitectAssociate
  • DeveloperAssociate
  • SysOps AdministratorAssociate
  • Cloud PractitionerFoundational

Recognition

  • Most Creative Hackathon Entry2× winner · Capital One
  • Collective Ingenuity Award3× winner · Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Code Artisan AwardCapital One
  • Tech Excellence Award2021 Q2 · rubicon-ml · Capital One

Dueling Experts Framework

Huh, dueling-experts-framework maps to def, and those are my initials. Weird.

Open-source agent framework

Claude and Codex, in constructive disagreement.

Dueling Experts is a local CLI framework that orchestrates multi-turn debate between models. It turns disagreement into a tool: competing analysis, explicit critique, and a stronger synthesized answer.

  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Model-to-model critique
  • Local CLI workflow
  • Open source
Explore the framework on GitHub
A Claude proposes
B Codex cross-examines
stronger synthesis

Other projects

AoS Reminders mobile interface: Stormcast Eternals army setup and in-game reminder cards

AoS Reminders

An open-source Warhammer companion with thousands of subscribers and dozens of contributors.

Visit project
Red geometric composition generated by the Word Art Generator

Word Art Generator

A serverless generative-art tool that turns words and palettes into downloadable compositions.

Try the generator
Survivor Fantasy mobile interface: drafted teams and live competition standings

Survivor Fantasy

A fantasy league for every season of Survivor - draft contestants with friends, then compete as the game unfolds.

Start a league
Interactive globe in Vacation Picker

Vacation Picker

Data-driven trip research presented on an interactive globe. Adjust weights such as temperature preference, distance to local hospitals, and flight times. It's how a nerd attempts to plan a vacation.

Explore the globe
Real Simple EmailA campaign platform I created and sold after it delivered more than 3.5 billion emails. Clean Text UtilitiesA durable npm toolkit for cleaning user-submitted text, with 18,000+ weekly downloads. Built Over TimeA browser-based workout tracker with pose estimation and computer-vision progress comparisons. HotdropAn ordering bot that watches Hotplate menus and buys limited releases automatically. Bitcoin ArbitrageAn AWS Lambda market scanner that compares exchange prices for arbitrage opportunities. Bonsai ArboristAn Electron desktop tool for capturing 360° plant imagery, including work used by National Geographic. Consultant SimA Phaser and React browser game about surviving the peculiar rhythms of consulting work. CellcionA laboratory workflow that automates flow-cytometry analysis and reduces repetitive review. Digital Picture FrameA Raspberry Pi frame that lets family email or text photos into an AWS-backed slideshow built for my Nana. AWS RTMP Streaming PipelineA production pipeline for ingesting 8K 360° video, transcoding adaptive streams, distributing them, and archiving the source. AoS Name GeneratorA lore-friendly Warhammer name generator that eventually evolved into AoS Reminders. Arduino LED Hula HoopA hand-built programmable LED hoop that was tougher to make than it looked. LED Infinity TableA hand-built Arduino-powered table running more than 15 programmable light displays. Jekyll Build ScriptA dramatically over-engineered build script for minifying, processing images, and deploying a Jekyll blog to S3. 100/100 Google PageSpeed InsightsThe techniques I used to earn a perfect score from Google's notoriously demanding PageSpeed tool. Age of Sigmar Seraphon ArmyA 2,000-point army and its hand-painted Dread Saurian centerpiece.