Turn ideas into real things.
Software, products, businesses, prototypes—I like taking something from an idea or problem to something people can actually use.
Jeremy Randall
I build businesses, software, and products.
I've spent more than two decades turning ideas and difficult problems into things people can actually use—from enterprise software and independent SaaS products to ecommerce businesses and physical products.
Now I use what I've learned building them to help others build theirs.
Enterprise softwareSaaS productsEcommercePhysical productsExperiments
How I Work
Pay attention to what happens next.
Building something is only the beginning. Customers, users, mistakes, data, and experience reveal what actually matters.
Share what works.
I use what I've learned from engineering, products, leadership, and business to help other people solve problems and build better things.
Things I've Built
Ideas are more interesting when they become real.
Some became businesses. Some became software. Some became products. Some were experiments. All of them taught me something.
Software · SaaS · Makers
Maker Forge
Founder / Software Engineer
Pricing and profitability software built from a problem I experienced running my own maker business.
Business · Ecommerce · Manufacturing
JTWoodworks
Owner / Operator
An ecommerce manufacturing business built around designing, making, selling, and shipping original physical products.
Explore JTWoodworksSoftware · Tabletop Gaming
TabRPG
Creator / Software Engineer
A long-running tabletop RPG application built, maintained, and continually modernized over time.
Experience Behind the Work
I've been building things for a long time.
Long before I started building my own software products and businesses, I was building production software for organizations with complex problems, large user bases, and real consequences when things didn't work.
2018 – PresentPenbay Technology Group
Senior Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer
Building and leading development of enterprise web applications supporting Department of Defense and National Science Foundation organizations, with hands-on work across Angular, TypeScript, ASP.NET, REST, SQL, Java, and technical leadership.
2002 – 2018Tyler Technologies
Engineering, Technical Leadership & Product Management
- Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer
- Lead Software Developer
- Product Manager
Progressed from research and development through architecture, engineering leadership, product direction, and stakeholder communication while building enterprise web applications used in more than 700 client deployments.
Mentorship & Community
Building includes helping others grow.
FIRST Robotics Programming Mentor
Mentoring students in Java, robotics, sensors, autonomous behavior, debugging, collaborative problem solving, and the confidence to build.
Lacrosse Coach
Coaching players in fundamentals, teamwork, decision-making, confidence, and learning how to compete together.
What I've Learned
Notes from building things.
I write about the practical lessons that emerge from software, products, business, and the work of turning an idea into something real.
Explore the writingSoftwareArchitecture, development, modernization
ProductsShipping, feedback, iteration
BusinessEcommerce, pricing, operations
BuildingIdeas, experiments, useful lessons
How I Can Help
Useful experience, applied to real problems.
The most useful conversations often sit where software, product decisions, technical leadership, and business operations overlap.
See where I can help- Software & architecture
- Product development
- Technical leadership
- Maker & ecommerce businesses
Start a Conversation
Working on something interesting?
I'm always interested in talking with people building software, products, and businesses.