Thirty years, three careers
Software engineer at Automattic, previously an engineering team leader and business-development manager. I take ownership of messy technical setups: migrations, fleet tooling, alerting, and the AI tooling that now runs through all of it.
Most of my work is for Automattic partners and internal teams, on sites and systems I can’t show. Each case gives the problem, what I did and what changed, using the figures from the work. Clients are named only where the work is already public.
$6,000+/mo saved, with zero downtime and no broken media
~445 sites moved to a direct alert path
100% of partner sites on Atlantis by July 2026
60+ PRs in four weeks, with AI translations shipped
~12K staff photos kept, ~97K third-party images removed
40 s → 0.1 s per search
Handed over running in the client’s own Make account
Public: OpenSourceOrg/dotOrg #116
800+ active installs of Query Loop Load More
Public: WordPress.org listing · specialprojects.automattic.com
~500 S&P 500 stocks, plus 36 crypto pairs around the clock
~5,400 stocks in the universe pipeline; rebalances a live account monthly
Personal projects where I test ideas end to end.
100% of drawn parts within 0.1 mm on an 80-part corpus
An agent "draws" the part with sketches, extrudes and holes, while five deterministic checks measure the result and reject anything wrong. Ships as a Claude Code skill.
Public: github.com/nickpagz/stl2step
~158 pytest tests; every change verified before it lands
Drop in a mesh, then click a feature and tell the agent what to change, or drag a parameter slider. A measured A/B benchmark of cost, time and pass rate settled the architecture.
Trained a PyTorch point-cloud encoder and transformer decoder that writes programs in a CAD language I designed. 100% valid output on held-out parts. Benchmarked against the state of the art and dropped the approach on the evidence.
Eleven Claude Code skills with human approval gates edited a 34,000-word manuscript. A claim checker flagged 92 factual claims; a final audit confirmed nothing was lost.
Telegram and Discord access for WooCommerce and Shopify stores. Disturv is on the Shopify App Store; Subscriber Manager Lite is on WordPress.org. Role Manager for Discord has ~162 PHPUnit tests and CI across three PHP versions.
The agent proposes. Deterministic code verifies.
Twenty years in engineering and business development, mostly in oil & gas. The full timeline has the detail.
Reworked how design fed manufacturing: floor time from 5 weeks to 2 and about 80% less supplier rework on API 614 lube-oil systems.
Led 10+ people across four countries and won pursuits worth $30M to $100M+ each.
Halved proposal admin time and cut reporting from 9 hours to under 2. Met every RFP due date.
Three of 107. Read every kudo and excerpts from my leads’ reviews.
“Handled all edge-cases masterfully and helped us improve processes along the way.”
“Thorough and brilliant… consistent and communicative.”
“The engine room in our often rudderless ship.”