Hey, I'm Allen.
Here's some stuff I've made.
Things I've built
- Gradient Search — Technical recruiting for defense, deep tech, and hard tech.
- South OC Kids — Camps, classes, sports, and events across South Orange County.
- BeaconKit — A free field guide to technical fluency for recruiters.
- Arda — Defense and industrial technology intelligence.
- FrameTen — AI, automation, custom software, and connected systems.
How I got here
- U.S. Marine Corps — Served
- Computer Science / Psychology — Studied
- Meta — Worked
- Marathon Petroleum — Worked
- Gradient Search — Founded
- FrameTen — Founded
Experiments
- This canvas — The site you're standing in: a pan-and-zoom world.
- AI hub — One assistant engine and knowledge base behind my sites.
- LLM Router — Next up: automatically pick the best model for each task by measured quality, cost, speed, and privacy needs.
- Agent Test Lab — Next up: test recruiting AI agents against simulated ATS data before they get production access.
Outside of work
- Photography — Street, landscapes, portraits, concerts, and commercial work. Drag the prints around, click to flip, double-click to look closer.
- Music — What I've been listening to. Pick a playlist and press play.
- Tiny synth — Press Darkwave for a new 80s loop and play along; the keys lock to its key. Mouse, touch, or A to K, with Z and X for octaves.