The Short Version
Things I've Built
Where I've Worked
Education & Writing
What I'm Good At
Mo Sharif
Software Engineer · AI Engineer · Engineering Leader
available for work~/colorado-springs
intro.md
I've been writing code since the jQuery days, led engineering teams through multiple funding rounds, and somewhere along the way became the person everyone asks about AI. My career has been a zigzag: frontend engineer, then engineering manager, then consultant, now AI builder. Honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I wrote a book called From Code to Culture about building engineering teams at high-growth startups. I've built everything from healthcare platforms to blockchain games to AI-powered developer tools. These days I split my time between fractional CTO work, building agentic systems, and occasionally reminding myself that I genuinely enjoy writing React components.
I wrote a book called From Code to Culture about building engineering teams at high-growth startups. I've built everything from healthcare platforms to blockchain games to AI-powered developer tools. These days I split my time between fractional CTO work, building agentic systems, and occasionally reminding myself that I genuinely enjoy writing React components.
built.log
Things I've Built
CodelitFounder & Lead Developer
- AI platform for architecture-first development. Describe any system, product, or agentic workflow in plain English and get an interactive diagram, product board, or full agent spec you can run.
- Built the agentic workflow engine: Skills, MCP servers, tools, triggers, model routing, approval gates, and eval harnesses, with dry-run simulation and live runs on real models before anything ships.
- Multi-provider AI with automatic fallback across every major model provider, so generation never goes down. Exports to Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, and verified GitHub repos.
- Built solo with Next.js, React 19, React Flow, Zustand, and Firebase.
ResolveMeshFounder & Developer
- A neutral capability-resolution layer for AI agents. When an agent cannot finish a job with its installed tools, it asks ResolveMesh, gets back ranked read-only capabilities across MCP, A2A, and REST, connects to the winner directly, and reports the outcome. Misses become privacy-safe demand signals.
- Deterministic, explainable ranking instead of a black box: every match returns its score breakdown, and cold-start tools say INSUFFICIENT_DATA rather than inventing a number. 86% precision at 1 and 89.3% at 3 on a 150-intent benchmark that gates CI.
- Trust is layered evidence, not vibes: registry identity, provider attestations bound to exact tool definitions, non-invasive health checks, and manual approval. A discovery study inspected 823 live tools without invoking a single one. The production catalog stays empty until the evidence clears.
AbleMakersFounder & Developer
- A learning platform that teaches AI skills to people the world tends to underestimate, built first for makers with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. The belief behind it: the tools of my trade are superpowers, and superpowers belong to everyone.
- Learning happens through quests, not courses. Each one ends in something real you can hold or share: a sticker set, a card, a photo story, a podcast. Short videos and a patient AI guide walk you through every step at your own pace.
- Finished work goes on a trophy shelf you share with family. Free for learners, forever. Built as a mission project on its way to becoming a nonprofit.
Ember CoastBuilder
- Private luxury travel planning platform. Answer a few questions about your trip and get a dated, day-by-day itinerary with vetted stays, restaurants, and activities. Every day planned down to the table.
- Built the booking model most agencies won't: a flat fee for the plan, direct booking links at list prices, and zero markups. White-glove concierge tiers take over the logistics when you want them to.
- Covers seven states across the American West, with vetted stays from Hawaii to Colorado to California, tuned to how you actually like to travel. The adventure is yours, the logistics are ours.
DateSafeFounder & Developer
- Dating safety mobile app. Plan a date, share the details with a trusted circle, and get gentle check-ins through the night. Built for anyone who wants a calmer, safer way to meet someone new.
- Privacy-first by design: date cards you fill in about 30 seconds, granular control over who sees what, quiet duress alerts, one-tap 911, and a private journal that never leaves your phone.
- Honest about what it is. It quietly alerts your circle, it is not a dispatch service. Encrypted and private by default, with you in control of every visibility setting.
ViralVaultFounder & Developer
- A daily tech briefing for developers. It pulls from Hacker News, Techmeme, TechCrunch, Reddit, and the wider tech press, scores what is actually gaining signal, and ships a curated read twice a day.
- Every story comes with a plain-English 'why you care' and a next step, grouped by topic (AI, security, chips, dev tooling, big tech). Episode-based, source-verified, with a live countdown to the next edition.
- Freemium: 5 free editions, then $5/mo Pro. Built and shipped solo on Vercel.
PixelForge UI
2024 - PresentFounder & Lead Developer
- Production-ready React component library with TypeScript, brutalist design system, and 15+ accessible components (WCAG 2.1 AA).
- Monorepo with pnpm workspaces, automated CI/CD, and 3 npm packages with semantic versioning.
- 90%+ test coverage with Jest, React Testing Library, and axe-core accessibility testing.
- Interactive Storybook docs deployed to GitHub Pages, because a component library nobody can browse is just a GitHub repo.
Code Boost
2020 - 2022Founder & Developer
- Tetris-style coding challenge game for Telegram: gamified technical learning built on the TON blockchain.
- Hit 1,000+ users in the first week through genuinely engaging gameplay mechanics, not growth hacks.
- Built the full stack: React frontend, Node.js real-time backend, blockchain integration for transparent rewards.
experience.log
Where I've Worked
FuturHealth
2022 - PresentEngineering Manager & Full-Stack Developer
- Built and led marketing and growth engineering teams that shipped everything from landing pages to complex React and Astro applications to AI-powered internal tools.
- Drove 50%+ revenue growth through payment optimization, A/B testing infrastructure, and conversion improvements that cut drop-offs by 60%.
- Architected monitoring and event tracking systems that gave leadership 80% more revenue visibility and surfaced user behavior patterns we were blind to.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows that cut feature delivery time by 40% across the team.
Kyruus Health
2020 - 2022Frontend Engineering Manager
- Led 4 senior frontend engineers, shipped a React monorepo that killed 40% of design inconsistencies and 60% of redundant dev time.
- Migrated customer-facing pages from Ember.js to React. The kind of migration that sounds simple in a meeting and takes six months in reality.
- Launched a new patient search experience that drove 35% higher satisfaction scores and measurably better engagement for healthcare clients.
- Hit WCAG 2.1 AA certification across all new releases. Accessibility isn't a checkbox, it's table stakes.
- Cut production incidents by 70% through better monitoring, error tracking, and a code review culture that actually caught things.
Degreed
2019 - 2020Engineering Manager & Lead Frontend Engineer
- Led 5 frontend engineers while still writing code daily, the hybrid IC and manager role that some people say is impossible. (It's not. It's just hard.)
- Built custom D3.js data visualizations and migrated Angular features to React, improving performance by 60%.
- Shipped a personalized learning dashboard that bumped daily active users by 25% and doubled course completions.
- Won a company innovation award for leading the migration to a modern frontend stack. Nice to be recognized, nicer that it actually worked.
Big Fish Games
2017 - 2019Senior Frontend Engineer
- Led frontend performance work and implemented the Material-UI design system across the platform.
- Cut game load times by 50% through code splitting and asset optimization, which directly moved retention and purchase metrics.
- Launched a social gaming feature that drove 15% more monthly active users.
- Containerized frontend applications with Docker back when that was still a hard sell at gaming companies.
Five9
2016 - 2017Frontend Engineer
- Built components for the internal tooling library, boosting delivery rate by 30% across teams.
- Improved test coverage by 40% and established testing practices that stuck around after I left.
- Automated deployment pipelines and took releases from days to hours.
Metal Roof Innovations
2014 - 2016Frontend Engineer
- My first real engineering job. Built interactive UIs, migrated from jQuery to Angular, and learned that shipping software for actual customers hits different than side projects.
- Introduced automated testing and modern tooling to a team that was doing everything manually. Small wins that compound.
education.md
Education & Writing
B.S. Web Development, Florida State University
Graduated summa cum laude. Where the foundation got laid.
Published Author, 'From Code to Culture'
Wrote From Code to Culture: a practical guide to building high-performing engineering teams at high-growth startups. Not theory. This is the stuff that actually worked for me.
Continuous Learning
Currently deep in agentic workflow design: Skills, MCP servers, model routing, guardrails, and eval harnesses. I work across the Claude, GPT, and Gemini ecosystems, and I'm still learning React, because it never stops changing.
skills.toml
What I'm Good At
[01]
AI Engineering & Agentic Systems
Designing and shipping agentic systems: Skills, MCP servers, tool boundaries, model routing, approval gates, and eval harnesses. I work across Claude, GPT, and Gemini with multi-provider fallback so nothing goes down. Not just prompting, actual software engineering around AI.
[02]
Full-Stack Product Development
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js: the modern stack I've shipped production apps with for a decade. I care about performance, accessibility, and building things that don't fall over at scale.
[03]
Engineering Leadership & Team Building
Scaled teams from 4 to 35+. Hired, mentored, and retained engineers through hyper-growth and market downturns. I've been through enough reorgs to know what actually works versus what looks good in a slide deck.
[04]
Architecture & Technical Strategy
Designing systems that survive contact with real users. Legacy modernization, cloud-native architecture, and the kind of technical decision-making that keeps startups alive through Series A and beyond.