Melton's Home & Auto
I built and maintain the website and social listings for my family's automotive business, and I am steadily layering in tools that support marketing and admin work.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindCSSPlaywright
Software Engineer
(AI & Platform)
I build AI systems and the tooling around them — agents, evaluation harnesses, and pipelines that teams ship to production.
Experience
I build AI systems and the infrastructure around them. I currently specialize in agentic tooling, evaluation harnesses, and data pipelines. Over the past few years I've scaled several AI prototypes to enterprise and am now helping teams adopt and leverage AI in their workflows.
AI Engineer
Ally Financial · Nov 2025 — Present
Building production AI systems. Notable projects include a custom RAG evaluation harness that decreased retrieval and generation analysis ~18x using parallel invocations and caching techniques, plus an agentic test automation platform I'm scaling from POC to org standard. I was also recently Recognized as a Claude Champion and Enablement Lead for my work helping engineering teams adopt AI tooling.
Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure
Ally Financial via Brooksource · Oct 2024 – Nov 2025
Built automation frameworks and internal tooling in TypeScript and Playwright for enterprise Salesforce systems, plus the CI/CD infrastructure behind them — data generation, secrets injection, and traceability on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3, cutting pipeline runtimes by over 30%. Designed the org's first AI agent solution in quality processes using custom subagents and the Playwright MCP.
Software Engineer
Data Annotation Tech · Nov 2023 – Oct 2024
Partnered with AI research teams to build evaluation pipelines, MCP tools, and realistic application environments. Scored LLM-generated code against ground-truth solutions and wrote reference implementations supporting reinforcement learning and model alignment.
B.S. Computer Science
University of South Carolina · Aug 2020 – May 2024
Focused on software engineering, backend systems, and applied machine learning.
Personal Projects
Things I build outside of work — some polished, some just to learn.
Playback MCP
An open-source MCP server and Chrome extension that lets AI agents control YouTube in your real browser — loop a passage, ramp the speed, stitch clips, and search transcripts. Local-first, MIT, and shipped to npm and the Chrome Web Store.
TypeScriptMCPNode.jsChrome ExtensionWebSocketSQLite
Claude Code from Zero
I created a short-form YouTube course that teaches Claude Code from the ground up, covering the CLI basics, context management, composable memory, skills, sub-agents, and MCP.
Claude CodeYouTubeDeveloper EducationCLI
Chip-8 Emulator and Debugger
I built a Chip-8 interpreted virtual machine with a built-in debugger to practice low-level programming, computer architecture, and emulation techniques.
C++SDL2NumPy
More
There's more if you want it.
The full project archive, the source on GitHub, and the videos behind the builds.
Tools & Technologies
I'm experienced in a blend of software engineering, test automation, data science, and AI tooling. I like to keep my toolkit as diverse as possible to enable me to quickly bring ideas to life.
Languages & Frameworks
PythonTypeScriptC++JavaScriptNext.jsReactNode.jsSalesforceStreamlitFastAPISDL2
Testing & Automation
PlaywrightPlaywright-mcpCucumberJSForceLocustRagasPytestJest
Data & AI / Machine Learning
TensorFlowscikit-learnPandasNumPyPlotlyMatPlotLibLLMs (Claude, GPT-4o & 5OpenAI APIClaude Code CLIFastMCP
Cloud & DevOps
AWS LambdaAWS S3AWS DynamoDBSupabaseDockerCI/CDFly
Tools
VS CodeJiraConfluenceLinuxGit
Get in touch
Have something you'd like to build or talk through? Send a note here, or reach me on LinkedIn.