Right Path Programming

About

I'm a software engineer in Birmingham, Alabama. Through my company, Right Path Programming, I've helped dozens of founders and small businesses turn an idea into a shipped mobile or web app. I take a project through every stage: working out the idea, prototyping, building the app, releasing it on the App Store and Google Play or the web, and supporting it after launch.

Before this I spent five years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama building web apps for the GroupAccess portal. In 2021 I cofounded Mealvana, where I'm still the CTO. We make meal-planning apps for endurance athletes, shaped by more than 100 interviews with coaches and dietitians.

I studied philosophy at Duke, then computer science at Georgia Tech. I volunteer with Birmingham AI.

TypeScript
Flutter
React
Supabase
LangGraph
AWS

Experience

Oct 2021 – Present
Cofounder and Chief Technical Officer at Mealvana
I lead engineering for Mealvana and Mealvana Endurance, our two meal-planning apps, and built Vana, a multi-agent system for athlete nutrition.
- Flutter
- TanStack Start
- Supabase
- Vercel AI SDK
- pgvector
Jan 2023 – Present
Founder and Freelance Software Developer at Right Path Programming
I've shipped dozens of mobile and web apps for clients and run each job myself, from the estimate through delivery and support.
- Flutter
- Python
- React
- AWS
Summer 2016 – Fall 2021
Senior Software Developer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
On the GroupAccess team I built portal web apps that talk to ProviderAccess, the mainframe, and the wider Blue Cross network.
- Java
- Angular
- DB2
- iBATIS
- Liferay CMS
- Jenkins

Download my Resume (PDF)

Education

Aug 2011 – Dec 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Aug 2005 – May 2009
Duke University
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy

Certifications

December 2026
AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
December 2026
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services

Projects

Mealvana Endurance
Fueling plans for runners, cyclists, and triathletes: what to eat before, during, and after a race.
I lead the engineering. I built Vana, a multi-agent system for athlete nutrition. Its agents handle race-day fueling, meal selection, general advice, and feedback. It recalls what each athlete has told it and finds recipes through pgvector embeddings. The app took shape over 100+ interviews with coaches and dietitians.
- Flutter
- TanStack Start
- Supabase
- Vercel AI SDK
- pgvector
Let's Go Birmingham
Beta
A curated events marketplace for Birmingham, for the people who put events on and the people looking for one.
I built it and run it. An LLM pipeline scrapes events from other sites, filters out noise and spam, and helps organizers write stories and features. A recommendation model ranks events for each visitor from their preferences and what they browse.
- letsgobirmingham.com
- TanStack Start
- Convex
- Clerk
- TypeScript
Simple Food Log
Coming soon
A privacy-first iOS food journal for people in eating-disorder recovery.
I built it in Flutter. You log a meal with a photo or your voice and an LLM writes the entry, with guardrails that keep calories and macros out of sight. The log exports as a PDF report to share with your care providers.
- Flutter
- Drift
- Riverpod
Gradus
In development
A tutor for harmony, counterpoint, and composition.
I'm building it as a LangGraph agent. It tracks what a student has and hasn't mastered, picks the next exercise from Beethoven and Mozart scores annotated by experts, answers questions, and grades the work. I evaluated and fine-tuned an open-source music analysis model against hundreds of human-annotated scores.
- LangGraph
Mealvana
Meal plans and shopping lists that learn what your household likes to eat.
I cofounded Mealvana and built the app in Flutter. It plans the week's meals from your preferences and turns the plan into a shopping list.
- mealvana.io
- Flutter
- Supabase
- Python