Chris Dwan
I help engineering teams ship real software with AI agents.
“I moved complexity so that humans didn't have to wrestle with it. It was just handled by the system.”
// shipped
- 01
Chime — on-call automation
Cut on-call from often more than 40 hours a week to a couple of hours of verification a week, after a three-month project that catalogued failure types and automated the correction.
Chris's account, 2026-08-07 interview — not an audited figure.
- 02
Patient Wisdom — lead developer
Took a two-developer prototype to market-ready in about two months, leading development alongside co-founder Nate Perry-Thistle.
Chris's account.
- 03
capybara_narrative — open source
A small language that hides brittle XPath mappings behind readable page descriptions, so end-to-end tests stopped being flaky.
Verified public repo — github.com/radixhound/capybara_narrative.
- 04
Early career — Unix/SAP integration
Designed a DSL so one mapping file could merge several flat-file sources into a single clean input, instead of hand-built code per source.
Chris's account.
// writing
No posts published yet. The first post is fully specified (thread T10) and lands separately from this design pass.
// how I work
“I'm not a manager so much as a leader.”
“All the work had to pass through the collective mind of the team.”