documenting my journey in tech - AI Agent Engineering @GustoHQ, prev Ruby & Rails Infrastructure @ShopifyEng

Joined May 2016
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Super excited for people to use Cofounder. Imagine texting an AI cofounder that anticipates your business’s needs and then automates it for you👇
Jun 2
Gusto just announced Gusto Cofounder, and this is something I'm really excited about. Not just because it's all I've been doing for the last two months, but because I think it's an example of what I've always thought to be the ideal user experience for our customers – almost no user interface, we just do it for you – run payroll via SMS, get weekly reports, set up automatic expense approvals, or anything else on your mind. It's an AI assistant for 500k small businesses, available in their preferred messaging app. Here are a few real conversations I've had with it 👇
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We reduced test suite runtime of the monolith by >23% (and counting) with FixtureKit! 🫨 Check it out
May 8
If you use factory_bot with Rails and have always been jealous of those fixture guys, check out FixtureKit! github.com/Gusto/fixture_kit
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someone please rebuild github
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til googles motto used to be “don’t be evil” lol
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11 Nov 2025
Smol but exciting update: I’ve been working on the AI Platform team at Gusto to build the next gen Gus agent 🤭 It’s been such a refreshing and energizing career shift to work in AI.
7 Mar 2025
AI can’t run your business for you, but it *can* make it easier. Meet Gus AI, your AI-powered assistant built for small businesses. Need quick answers on compliance? Just ask. ⬇️
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11 Nov 2025
I just submitted my first application to @ycombinator 👀
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12 Sep 2025
in a ci builds meeting: what if we just don't run any tests
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23 Aug 2025
I'm surprised at how similar (yet different) CPython is implemented compared to CRuby
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maple ong retweeted
You can join these speakers at the SF Ruby conference! Submit the talk proposal before the end of Sunday, July 13, for review of our program committee @OngMaple @noelrap @palkan_tula and @paolino at cfp.sfruby.com If you have questions, reach out!
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Anyone else feel a little embarrassed to said you use AI day to day or is it just me
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8 Apr 2025
An underrated thing my mentor did with me is sit down and talk about org changes and announcements (e.g. company financials, compensation, leadership, etc). It taught me how to think more critically about these changes and form better opinions.
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8 Apr 2025
I’m not an engineering manager but learning about how other companies scale their org is quite interesting. I’ve only worked at larger companies so there are just some practices that make me go “hmm idk if that would work at our scale” anyway the @duolingo office is nice
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15 Mar 2025
buying an apple product using a family and friends discount feels like modern day nepotism
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🐝 🐝 🐝 Still buzzing from last night's Artificial Ruby event! 120 Rubyists gathered at @GustoHQ NYC office, with folks traveling from as far as Wisconsin, Washington & Massachusetts! 🎉 #RubyAI
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15 Feb 2025
How does one not binge watch the entirety of severance
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6 Feb 2025
I dream of the day I can just send an email to the engineering org without rereading it for 20 minutes beforehand
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14 Jan 2025
Highly recommend attending this program if you're interested in programming language implementation! Great speakers and beautiful location in Italy - I also met so many brilliant people 🥺
One week today is the deadline for expressing your interest to attend Programming Language Implementation Summer School (PLISS) -- we have a great program, if I do say so myself! pliss.org/2025/
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10 Jan 2025
ok friends we rly wanna hire a US-based staff level eng for our ruby/rails team @GustoHQ - anyone you would recommend?? jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/13…

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11 Dec 2024
Huge! I’m so excited for this 😌
11 Dec 2024
Please help welcome @GustoHQ as a Contributing member of the Rails Foundation! Their commitment to open-source aligns perfectly with the foundation’s mission, and we are excited to have them onboard. More in the blog: rubyonrails.org/2024/12/11/g…
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