01
Capability laneProduct engineering
Turns ambiguous business goals into shippable product systems.
Next.jsReactTypeScript
Interfaces, workflows, API contracts
Current systems
Active work,
live signals, and writing.
Featured builds, the latest ranked signal, and recent writing — all in one place.
Featured build
MAINFRAME
Open-source bash stdlib for AI agents. Signals systems-level engineering range. Shows open-source authorship.
Pure bash runtime · Agent working memory primitives
Latest ranked signal
Introducing Cache Response Rules
Perhaps you’ve seen something that should sail out of cache get dragged back to the origin by a stray Set-Cookie or Cache-Control, headers that can be hard to change on the origin itself. Cache Response Rules is the fix, applied at the right time.
CLOUDFLARE · 11m ago · score 60
Publishing system
Building Realtime Apps with SpacetimeDB and Next.js 15
A deep dive into SpacetimeDB's TypeScript SDK and how to wire it into a Next.js 15 App Router application for live visitor tracking and realtime features.
3 min read · spacetimedb · next.js
Engineering signal layer
A portfolio that behaves like operational software.
The strongest version of this site is not louder. It is more instrumented: live data, authenticated publishing, ranked inputs, and proof surfaces that make Gordon Todd Watts feel like the engineer behind a system, not just the owner of a landing page.
Live sources
14
Ranked items
28
Freshest signal
<2h
Categories
6
Published posts
2
Publish API
locked
Product engineering
Full-stack systems
Interfaces, APIs, content pipelines, and operational workflows shaped as one product surface.
AI integration
Agent-ready workflows
MCP-aware publishing, AI product strategy, and LLM engineering treated as infrastructure, not garnish.
Realtime posture
Signal-driven UX
Live feeds, ranked data, and status surfaces that show technical awareness in the interface itself.
Enterprise engineering brief
Where Gordon creates leverage.
The strongest fit is work where product taste, full-stack execution, AI systems, and operational clarity all matter at once. Gordon can move from fuzzy strategy to shipped software without losing the thread between interface, API, data, deployment, and proof.
Case files7
Live systems6
AI-linked3
Quality gates6
Capability ownership mapFive lanes, one accountable engineer
Inspect full capability map →02
Capability laneAI application systems
Builds LLM-backed workflows where model output has product context and control surfaces.
LLM APIsagentsRAG patterns
AI product layers that behave like infrastructure
03
Capability laneBackend and data flow
Keeps APIs small, inspectable, and operationally visible.
route handlersRSS/API aggregationMDX
Dashboards, source health, durable event trails
04
Capability laneCloud and operations
Treats deployment, monitoring, and security posture as part of the product.
VercelAzureCI gates
Production-ready posture before handoff
05
Capability laneStrategic systems thinking
Uses marketing leadership experience to build software that explains its value quickly.
positioningconversion pathsanalytics
Technical products with clear commercial signal
Quality system ledger
The release bar is part of the interface.
Typed contracts, source telemetry, browser semantics, security headers, and performance budgets are checked locally before handoff. The detailed evidence remains inspectable through Ops and the portfolio API.
Local release bar
1,908 checks // 0 failuresbun run verifyTypecheckpassing
bun run typecheckTypeScript contract across app routes, components, and shared data models.
Enterprise audit503 checks
bun run audit:enterpriseStatic checks for positioning, design tokens, source quality, semantics, security posture, and proof surfaces.
Build artifactpassing
bun run buildNext.js production build proves route boundaries, generated assets, and dynamic API surfaces.
API contract823 checks
bun run audit:apiBuilt route handlers prove OpenAPI, profile proof, feed telemetry, health, ops, bounded publishing, rate policy, atomic writes, and monitor shape.
Browser audit396 checks
bun run audit:browserDesktop/mobile route smoke, generated images, structured data, security headers, axe, overflow, keyboard flow, sanitized Blog output, and semantic controls.
Performance audit186 checks
bun run audit:performanceCore Web Vitals, interaction response, Blog budgets, transfer budgets, visible content, luminance diversity, and Ghost Signal accent pixels.
Open-source ecosystems
Projects I support
Small but important signal: I contribute to and support AI-native developer tooling beyond my own products.
✦ Selected Work
Systems I've Built
● LIVE
2024
JPope Tax Portal
Enterprise client portal for tax consultancy
Full-featured client portal built for JPope Tax Consultancy. React, TypeScript, Next.js frontend backed by Convex for real-time data sync. Role-based access, document management, and client communication tools.
Surface
Portal + docs + comms
Mode
Realtime-ready
Focus
Security + clarity
Outcomes
Unified client communication surface
Architecture
Role-based accessRealtime data syncDocument workflows
● LIVE
2026
JPOPE Tax Consultancy
JamiePope.com commercial real estate tax website
Public website for JPOPE Tax Consultancy that turns a complex CRE tax advisory practice into a navigable planning system: service taxonomy, lifecycle routing, resources, newsroom content, and conversion paths for owner and advisor inquiries.
Experience
30+ yrs
Service areas
23
Planning lanes
6
Outcomes
Makes specialized CRE tax work easier to navigate
Architecture
Service-route taxonomyLifecycle planning frameworkResource + newsroom content model
● LIVE
2025
TaxScout.app
AI-powered commercial real estate tax optimization
Commercial real estate tax optimization platform for multifamily properties. Cost segregation analysis, 1031 exchange calculations, REPS qualification, and accelerated depreciation schedules. MCP-connected for AI agent access.
Domain
CRE tax workflows
AI layer
MCP-connected
Product move
Decision support
Outcomes
Turns niche tax logic into a usable product
Architecture
AI agent publishing surfaceTax calculation workflowsMultifamily domain modeling
● LIVE
2025
MAINFRAME
Open-source bash stdlib for AI agents
4,000+ pure bash functions: JSON, strings, arrays, HTTP, CSV, git, Agent Working Memory (AWM), RAG, embeddings, and multi-agent orchestration. The codex for AI-native shell scripting.
Functions
4,000+
Runtime
Pure bash
Use case
AI agent systems
Outcomes
Signals systems-level engineering range
Architecture
Pure bash runtimeAgent working memory primitivesCLI-first orchestration surface
● LIVE
2024
PropertyJunk.com
Junk removal SaaS with integrated CRM
Complete SaaS platform for junk removal operations. Real-time fleet tracking, employee management, customer CRM, scheduling, and billing—all in a single unified interface. Built for scale.
Mode
Ops SaaS
Surface
CRM + fleet + billing
Focus
Workflow continuity
Outcomes
Turns field operations into software
Architecture
Operations dashboardFleet and scheduling workflowsUnified CRM + billing
Ranked signal feed
Full feed →✦ /now
What I'm Doing
Right Now
Building
ACTIVE
PropertyJunk.com — junk removal SaaS platform
ACTIVE
TaxScout.app — commercial real estate tax optimization
WIP
MAINFRAME — open source bash stdlib expansion
WIP
toddwatts.dev — this site
Reading
01Attention Is All You Need (re-read)
02The Pragmatic Programmer — 2nd ed.
03Designing ML Systems — Chip Huyen
Watching
▶
Andrej Karpathy
Neural nets: Zero to Hero
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Lex Fridman
Sam Altman ep.
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ThePrimeagen
Rust streams
My Setup
EditorVS Code + Claude Code
AIClaude Sonnet 4.5, Pi
RuntimeBun 1.2
DeployVercel
