Over the past six months I’ve taken on an advisory and acting CTO role with AudioPool — a pre-MVP startup aiming to reshape how music royalties are split, tracked, and distributed among creators. While the core mission is about empowering artists and collaborators through transparency and automation, my focus has been technical: building a modern, scalable foundation for the platform.

That includes:

• Infrastructure-as-Code with Pulumi (TypeScript) to provision and manage our cloud stack
• Kubernetes deployments for our backend services
• A modular, React-based front end built with Next.js, TanStack Query, Zod, and Stripe Elements
• Strong use of tRPC to enforce type safety from client to server
• CI/CD pipelines for GitHub Actions-based deployment and testing

Coming from a backend-heavy background, I’ve been re-immersing myself in front-end dev—aligning engineering outputs with product wireframes, onboarding external contributors, and ensuring that our app state, API contracts, and UI behavior stay in sync.