Hi I’m Dane 👋
I design and build production-ready AI products, end-to-end, from system architecture and UX to deployment and iteration with real users.
I’m a builder and systems thinker focused on turning ambiguous ideas into working software that ships, scales, and gets paid for.
Personal Projects
Roley.ai
AI-powered sales training & coaching platform
• Designed and built full-stack system (voice AI agents, visual builder, analytics, LMS-style workflows)
• Served 3,000+ paid monthly active users through an enterprise customer
• Focus on real-world usage, performance, and iteration based on customer data
SaferSolar.ai
Consumer-facing AI product to protect homeowners from solar fraud
• Built with JavaScript, React, Firestore, and OpenAI
• End-to-end product: UX, data pipelines, AI logic, deployment
• Live, production product with real users
Startup Coach (2020–2024)
• Coached hundreds of founders across early-stage startups
• Supported launches across consumer, B2B, and marketplaces
• Drove outcomes resulting in 11× ROI, verified by an independent research firm commissioned by our funders
Recognition
🏆 Winner — 2025 San Francisco Hack Olympics
(AI product & systems design)
Core Skills
Engineering & AI
Cursor/Claude Code
JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
React, Flask, Supabase, Vercel
OpenAI / LLM systems, agent workflows
Analytics pipelines & data modeling
AI product design & UX
Rapid prototyping → production hardening
Scrappy, resource-efficient launches
User feedback → system iteration loops
Why Work With Me
I don’t over-theorize.
I don’t ship demos that die.
I build real systems that real users rely on.
If you have:
a rough idea that needs structure
an AI concept that needs to become a product
or a product that needs to actually work at scale
I can build it — fast and correctly.
Have a challenge? Let’s ship something real.
Dane M. earns an estimated $14k/mo. That's 9.4× the typical freelancer and more than 99.94% of everyone we track.