Fourteen years of building software — and a career that started on a stage, not in a cubicle.
Founder & Lead Architect · Pasley Hill
The short version
I spent my twenties touring with Soletta. Then I taught myself to code.
That was 2012. I never looked back — self-taught engineer to magna cum laude CS grad, to senior engineer, to CTO through a startup exit, to running my own shop. The stage taught me to solve problems sideways. I still do.
2006 → Now
One line — but never one thing.
For years the career, the CS degree, and my own business all ran in parallel.
2006–2012
Touring musician
On the road with the band.
2012–2015
Self-taught engineer
Built systems on my own; started leading teams.
2015–2019 · in parallel
CS degree, magna cum laude
Earned it while working full-time — plus graduate ML coursework.
2015–2022
Sr. Engineer → VP
Leading engineering teams.
2017 → now · in parallel
My own business
Building apps for other companies on the side, then full-time.
2022–2024
CTO → exit
Led 11 engineers; early gen-AI product to a successful exit.
now
Pasley Hill, full-time
Running my own AI-native shop.
What I do now
I run an AI-native software shop.
Pasley Hill builds production software for real businesses — fast. My engineers aren't prompt jockeys; they're seasoned problem-solvers whose experience is amplified by AI they wield safely.
10–50×
faster to production
14 yrs
building software
11
engineers led as CTO
Clients
Who I build for.
Work spanning outdoor retail, medical devices, the automotive market, and healthcare — much of it under NDA.
Music is where it started — and it never stopped. I toured with Soletta; these days I play with Team Goldie.
Endurance
I run the long ones.
Half and full marathons — training through the cold, chasing the next start line. The discipline that gets you to mile 26 is the same one that ships hard software.
Where the work happens
And off the clock.
A quiet room, good light, and the tools to think. When I'm not building for clients, I mentor engineers and founders and consult one-on-one with companies who want to build well.
The through-line
Creativity is the engineering.
The arts taught me that the best solution is rarely the obvious one. I only work with people as passionate about what they make as I am about the systems that power it.
