Hi, I'm Bryce. I'm an independent engineer (ex-eBay, nearly a decade) who designs and builds AI systems with Claude Code , MCP , and whatever else fits the problem. Sixteen months and 260+ sessions deep: architecture, quality verification, prototype to production, and knowing when to scrap and rebuild. Solo builders, startups, established orgs. Bring me a project and I'll scope it honestly.
Now that AI writes the code, the hard part is everything around it.
What I Do
Prototype to production, end to end. Architecture with multi-agent coordination, quality gates, and self-improving memory. My flagship system runs an Etsy shop end-to-end with 34 specialized skills and three tiers of learned memory. I've evaluated and rejected two major orchestration frameworks against real requirements, and designed intent-based skill architectures that cut code 74% while increasing capability. I've also done a full architectural rewrite in 6 days when the original wasn't scaling, and scrapped 2 weeks of Chrome extension work after 8 PRs when a simpler approach was clearly better.
Problems found before they become yours. I've diagnosed undocumented bugs in Google's Gemini SDK, Anthropic's desktop software ( startup freeze , file upload failure , 6 VM failure modes behind one error ), and Electron's multi-monitor DPI handling. When standard troubleshooting fails, I trace root causes through log files, undocumented APIs, and system internals, then publish the fix and file the issue upstream.
Work you can trust. Every deliverable I publish goes through a 4-agent review pipeline (fact-checker, technical reviewer, editorial reviewer, visual QA). I've caught errors in my own drafts, retracted incorrect findings after publishing, and corrected community misinformation that was leading people to wrong fixes. When I'm wrong, I say so.
Just Published
Adversarial Subagent Teams: A Retrospective
New 71 invocations of the adversarial-subagent-team pattern in Claude Code and Cowork, verified against the cited PRs, commits, and arXiv references. Six headline claims: three confirmed clean, one with caveats, one rejected on falsification, one not supported by the data.
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active client engagement: Akaya knowledge management pilot (Oregon AI Accelerator '26 cohort), through Dec 2026
Latest posts
See all posts- Adversarial Subagent Teams: A Retrospective71 invocations of the adversarial-subagent-team pattern in Claude Code and Cowork, verified against the cited PRs, commits, and arXiv references. Across six headline claims: three confirmed clean, one confirmed with caveats, one rejected on falsification, one not supported by the data.
- chat-arch Next: Site Survey, and the Project Idea You Forgot You HadClaude conversations split across claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code CLI fragment your real work-streams. Site Survey is the planned fix in chat-arch.
- Supergraphic Panel: chat-arch's design system, reusable in a promptThree URLs, one CLAUDE.md snippet, one prompt — how to pull chat-arch's dark chromed design system into any Claude Code project. With three recipes and the five places an LLM will miss.
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Work Experience
Full timeline- Jan2025 - NowIndependentSoftware Developer
Building production AI services, MCP protocol tooling, and e-commerce platforms as an independent developer. Primary development tool is Claude Code with AI co-authored commits across all projects.
Current projects include:
- Portland State University. Software engineering services on the Akaya knowledge management pilot — an AI-native platform that captures tacit team knowledge via voice and turns it into searchable playbooks, how-tos, and learning cards with citations. Akaya is a 2026 cohort company in the Oregon AI Accelerator. Through Dec 2026.
- Stylize MCP Server. Production MCP server on GCP Cloud Run integrating DALL-E 3 with Claude Desktop for AI image stylization. Freemium SaaS with four pricing tiers, abuse prevention, and content safety filtering.
- ShopForge. Self-improving AI agent that runs an Etsy digital art print shop (ChateaucoreWalls) with three-tier memory, Bayesian confidence scoring, and skill evolution. Evolved from ShopSmith OS, which proved the domain across 86 commits and 37 merged PRs.
- Bryce Labs Toolkit. Claude Code plugin suite including spec-driven development, session history mining, and cross-platform skill management. Installable from marketplace.
- MCP API Bridge. Production-quality starter kit that turns any REST API into an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants. 74 tests, released.
- Shopify TYOS Migrator. Automated migration of Shopify tracking pixels to the Customer Events API across 8 ad platforms with pixel parity validation.
Over 1,500 commits across 2025–2026 using a PR-based workflow with conventional commits, Claude Code co-authorship, and automated GPT-based PR review via chatgpt-codex-connector.
- Mar2015 - Dec2024eBaySoftware Engineer 2 → Member of Technical Staff 2
10 years at eBay, across Mobile Web, Charity, View Item, Android Native, and Ads. On Mobile Web, built much of the checkout page back when the whole app was a single codebase. Redesigned the eBay for Charity site to modern frontend standards, conversion climbed enough to clear our yearly team goals. On View Item, owned the Best Offer flow, among other surfaces. On the Ads team, modernized and consolidated a sprawl of applications into a more maintainable architecture. Promoted from Software Engineer 2 through Member of Technical Staff 2 across that span.
Production-scale systems work, code that has to stay up while you change it, is where I learned to ship without breaking things. That standard is what I now bring to the engagements on this page.
- Jun2012 - Feb2015Enterprise SoftwareSoftware Developer
Built enterprise payments and decision-analytics software. Developed systems for transaction processing, risk assessment, and data-driven decision support in regulated environments.
Recent projects
See all projects- MCP API Bridge ReleasedTurn any REST API into an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants. Production-quality starter kit with 74 tests.
- ShopForge ActiveProduction AI agent operating a live Etsy shop with 34 specialized skills, three-tier memory, and graduated autonomy. 16 months of sustained development.
- ShopSmith OS ArchivedLocal-first command center for managing and publishing digital products on Etsy with AI-powered content generation. Evolved into ShopForge.
- AI Research Pipeline ReleasedMulti-agent RAG research assistant with a 3-agent pipeline, intelligent model routing across o1, o1-mini, and sonar-pro, Chroma DB vector store, and Vectara factual consistency scoring.
- MCP Python SDK: PR #2041 Open PRContributed PR that exposed progress_callback in ServerSession methods, bringing Python SDK into parity with TypeScript. Awaiting maintainer review.
- Stylize MCP Server ReleasedProduction MCP SaaS on GCP Cloud Run integrating DALL-E 3 with Claude Desktop. Freemium trial with abuse prevention, VPN detection, and content safety filtering.
Let's Connect
For project inquiries, start at Work With Me . For anything else (speaking, collaboration, press), email me at hello@brycewatson.com or reach out on social.