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Hi! My name is John Hamlin!

I’m cofounder and tech lead at Jellifish, making shopping for interiors clearer, starting with wallpaper. I build with a software factory of AI agents. Before that, I was at Buildertrend and Deutsche Bank. I live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

About me

My wife, Catherine, and I started Jellifish to make shopping for interiors clearer. We’re starting with wallpaper. That means apples-to-apples pricing regardless of whether the manufacturer sells single rolls, double rolls, by the yard — whatever — and sorting products by how much it would cost to wallpaper your room. You shouldn’t need to make a spreadsheet or have a friend with an interior decorator’s license to wallpaper your powder room.

I’ve got an ever-growing org chart of AI agents handling product, design, engineering and more. I’m learning in public as I go and posting about it as @johnhamlin on X.

Before Jellifish, I was a senior full-stack engineer at Deutsche Bank and Buildertrend. At Deutsche Bank I worked on the first internal AI tool to hit production, and I contributed reusable skills to Buildertrend’s internal AI tools.

When I’m not working, I’m a bar trivia champion, hot sauce daredevil and kombucha home brewer. I’ll talk your ear off about reverse searing steaks, the best way to make a martini (obviously gin, almost no vermouth) and the uselessness of the Oxford comma.

Software factory

How I ship now: a few bots write the code, and I review the scary parts.

My Projects

Me v2.0

Me v2.0

In 2023, my wife and I took some time off to welcome twin boys and get to know the little guys.

  • Swaddling
  • Coffee
  • Ms. Rachel
  • Love
  • Earplugs

My skills

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Git
  • Tailwind CSS
  • JQuery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • MongoDB
  • Redux
  • GraphQL
  • Apache Kafka
  • Express
  • Python
  • Django
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GitHub Actions
  • React Testing Library

My experience