I’m Kevin Houston, a solutions engineer with a decade of enterprise API integration experience across Meta, Yahoo, and Criteo. I work across technical discovery, developer enablement, and implementation. My independent projects apply that experience to AI workflows with explicit scope, review gates, and human approval.
A file-and-review workflow for keeping AI-assisted development scoped, reviewable, and easier to resume across sessions.
Reusable documentation and templates separate project rules, specs, review checks, and handoff state. Claude Code and Codex can read the same repo context; the maintainer checks the work and decides what ships.
A local macOS app that captures mic, system audio, or both at once, and transcribes the audio on-device with faster-whisper. Existing meeting tools optimize for summaries. I wanted the raw transcript source file, saved locally as Markdown with YAML frontmatter and per-source WAV sidecars, so I can hand it into whatever tool I reach for next.
Source.app into /Applications, clears the macOS quarantine flag, and launches it.
curl -L https://github.com/GChaucer/source-transcriber/releases/latest/download/Source.zip -o /tmp/Source.zip && \ unzip -o /tmp/Source.zip -d /Applications && \ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Source.app && \ open /Applications/Source.app
A FastAPI reference implementation that classifies three issue types, asks at most one clarifying question, and returns structured routing decisions. Uses deterministic rules and mock tools, with explicit escalation paths.
A personal AI-assisted workflow for opportunity discovery, filtering, scoring, and approved artifact generation. The public documentation explains suppression, review gates, and operating constraints; source code and personal data remain private.
Co-founded and led an NFT minting platform end to end. Owned product direction, GTM strategy, contributor coordination, and customer-facing execution from concept through launch.
Implemented the full burn/mint cycle across Base and Ethereum Sepolia via Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol. Hands-on work with cryptographic attestation and USDC settlement mechanics.
Designed a tiered SLA escalation model and phased self-service transition roadmap for the trading API. Covered swap routing, liquidity-pool queries, and multi-channel developer triage.
I did not build a new transcription model. I built a local-first wrapper around faster-whisper because the existing meeting tools optimize for summaries, and I wanted the raw transcript source file. The writeup covers macOS packaging, mic and system audio capture, model tradeoffs, and what I learned about input quality versus model size.
Clients don't pay for APIs. They pay for the outcome the integration makes possible, and for someone who'll see it cleanly through the launch.
Map the system, the stakeholders, and the constraints before proposing anything. Most SE failures are scoping failures in disguise.
Write down scope, acceptance criteria, and the exceptions worth handling. The integration, not the API, is the product.
Human approval at the gates that matter. Suppression rules, exception paths, and fallbacks, not just the happy path.
Optimize for the handoff as much as the launch. Documentation, ownership boundaries, and repeatable patterns are part of the deliverable.
Lead technical consultant for enterprise API integrations on Meta's advertising platform. Drove adoption through developer enablement, integration playbooks, and cross-functional product feedback loops across Conversions API, Signals, and Measurement surfaces.
Led technical strategy, pre-sales solutioning, and developer onboarding for API-powered advertising products supporting global enterprise advertisers. Built and authored the SE playbook across S2S integration strategy.
Owned technical discovery, pre-sales solution design, and integration strategy across e-commerce partners. Full-stack integration consultant across API and catalog-driven personalization pipelines.
Claude API, OpenAI, multi-model pipelines, Claude Code, agentic workflow design.
Circle CCTP, Uniswap V3, Plaid API, ethers.js, Base Network, EVM.
Meta CAPI, Yahoo DSP API, Criteo API, a decade of production API integration depth.
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, Postman, Git.
Open to Solutions Engineer, Partner Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Solutions Consultant, and AI Deployment / Forward Deployed roles. Based in Los Angeles, remote or hybrid. Usually replying within a day.