Open to remote rolesChicagoSenior engineer and tech lead

Patrick Finnigan

I build AI agents and the tools around them.

Eight years shipping web products, most recently at Beacons AI, where I helped grow Beam, the creator AI agent, about 12× in one summer and built the Beacons MCP from scratch, so Claude and ChatGPT can work with Beacons directly. TypeScript by default.

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~12×weekly creators using Beam over summer 2026, from about 1,000 to 12,495
0 → 1built the Beacons MCP from scratch, so any Beacons user can work with their data in Claude
8 yrsshipping web products, four of them leading or managing engineers
ConnectingMy self-hosted AI memory server
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–requests · 7 days
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How it works
Selected work

Things I've built.

Beacons AI · creator AI agent

Beam

  • BuiltLink-in-bio editing tools for the agent, and one parameterized analytics tool in place of many per-metric ones.
  • LearnedShowing the agent a rendered view of the page, not just its style settings, made its edits much better.
  • ResultAbout 1,000 to 12,495 weekly active creators over summer 2026.
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12,495weekly active creators, Oct 2026
Automation

clautopilot

Headless Claude Code automation that takes a ticket to a pull request, then keeps answering review comments until it's ready to merge. Works across GitHub, GitLab and Linear.

Claude CodeGitHub / GitLab APIs
Agent setup as code

dotclaude

My Claude Code setup as code: hooks, skills and a git-synced memory shared by several coding agents across two machines, with evals that check the agents actually use it.

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Experience

Where I've worked.

  1. 2022 – 2026

    Beacons AI remote

    Senior Software Engineer and Tech LeadApr 2025 – Oct 2026

    Helped grow Beam, the creator AI agent, about 12× in weekly active creators. Built the Beacons MCP from scratch and shared its tools with Beam to keep the two at parity. Tech lead for Beacons for Brands: architecture, tickets, code review, and delegating to engineers and AI agents.

    Software EngineerJun 2022 – Apr 2025

    Built the React and TypeScript frontend and Python APIs for branded email, which grew adoption 750%. Ran onboarding and checkout A/B tests with LaunchDarkly and Amplitude.

  2. 2018 – 2022

    Riviera Partners San Francisco

    Engineering ManagerSep 2021 – May 2022

    Managed three frontend engineers on the core recruiting app, reporting to the CTO.

    Engineering Team LeadJan 2020 – Aug 2021

    Led the team and architected its work, including a real-time sourcing interface that points recruiters to unreviewed candidates.

    Software EngineerAug 2018 – Dec 2019

    React and Ruby across the recruiting app, including a client-facing KPI dashboard.

  3. 2018

    University of Michigan

    B.S.E. Computer Science
Full history on LinkedIn
Side project, running right now

Home Server: remember once,
recall anywhere.

Every AI assistant I use shares one memory of me, and it runs on an old laptop in my apartment. Claude on web and phone, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and Grok all read and write the same long-term memory. A small MCP server (MCP is the standard way AI apps call outside tools) runs on a 2018 MacBook Pro, reachable only through a Cloudflare Tunnel behind an authenticated Worker gateway. I deploy it by asking for a deploy in chat.

TypeScriptMCPCloudflare Workers · Tunnel · Accesslaunchdgit sync
Claude Claude Code ChatGPT Codex Grok Worker gatewayOAuth · allowlist CF Tunnel+ Access token MCP server · 2018 MBPlaunchd · git-synced memory
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Contact

Hiring for AI agents or developer tooling? Let's talk.

pdfinnigan.dev@gmail.com
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