David Fox-Powell
Surf, code, and the gap between a good idea and something that holds.
About
I'm a Principal AI Architect with 12 years building the infrastructure layer underneath other people's products. I live in LA, I surf, I ski, I drag friends to Sayulita and Mammoth and wherever the owls are. I also think a lot about what AI actually removes friction for — and it's not everything, just everything except the path you actually came for. That's the thing I keep building toward.
What I bring
Infrastructure instinct
I spent a decade making other engineers faster at Casper, GoodRx, Flexport, and HubSpot — the layer underneath the product, not the product itself.
Orchestration over accumulation
I build agent pipelines that compose Claude, Vercel, Supabase, and Cloudflare into systems that hold under real conditions — fewer tools, more rigor, nothing that breaks the second it matters.
Depth in two registers
The engineering work and the consciousness work aren't separate interests — they're both about defragmentation, finding what actually holds, and removing the noise that wasn't yours to carry anyway.
Where I'm growing
I'm still learning how to make complex systems legible without dumbing them down — and how to talk about the consciousness side of this work to people who came in through the engineering door.
Where I'm going
Building Defrag — a publication and foundations layer for the AI era — and spending as much time as possible in the ocean in between.