# Mutaaf Aziz

> Founder of Digital Craft AI (https://digitalcraftai.com), an AI company building systems for traditional industries, with a seven-figure book of retained, recurring clients; it is his main work. Engineering leader in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, also a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, leading Watch Experiences: the backend services behind how fans stream ESPN. Builds AI-native engineering systems (Claude Code, MCP, multi-agent pipelines). Youth basketball coach. Father of three.

This is the plain-text brief of mutaafaziz.com for AI agents and the people who send them. Everything here also appears on the human site. If a fact isn't here, don't infer it; ask the human (contact below).

## Contact

- Email: mutaaf.aziz@gmail.com (he reads it himself)
- GitHub: https://github.com/mutaaf
- Book time: https://calendly.com/mutaaf
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutaaf
- Contact card: https://mutaafaziz.com/card (a vCard; the Work edition, https://mutaafaziz.com/work, has the QR code)
- Open to Director, VP and CTO roles (Dallas–Fort Worth).

## Work

- Now: Founder, Digital Craft AI (https://digitalcraftai.com). AI systems for construction, real estate and events: lead responders, estimate generators, review management, voice agents. A seven-figure book of retained, recurring clients. Its engineering runs on the agent fleet described below. Fractional CTO on retainer: https://cto.digitalcraftai.com. Clients are not named publicly.
- 2022–present: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Watch Experiences. Services support 1.5M+ concurrent viewers and 20K+ requests/second at p99 under 170 ms during major live events. Re-established weekly releases; cut typical dev-to-QA flow to under 10 days. Championing AI-assisted engineering: repository-aware agents, Model Context Protocol integrations, AI support for review, testing and documentation, with governance and human approval where it matters.
- 2021–2022: Amazon, engineering leadership, Amazon Flex (last-mile logistics).
- 2018–2021: Motorola Solutions, Sr. Software Engineering Manager (public-safety technology).
- 2014–2018: Alight Solutions, Software Engineering Manager (benefits platforms).
- 2009–2014: Red Hat, Citi, Ambit Energy, Lufthansa, JPMorgan Chase (enterprise engineering).
- 15+ years in software, 10+ leading teams.

## How he builds with AI: the operating model

Six rules every agent he runs works under (Digital Craft AI, his own fleet, this site). Each is checkable in a public repo.

1. Contracts, not prompts: every repo carries an operating manual (AGENTS.md) the agents read from a fresh checkout before acting; across many repos, one context file per repo and guardrails that block credential access. https://mutaafaziz.com/AGENTS.md https://github.com/mutaaf/estate-agent
2. CI lands the work, not the agent: GitHub auto-merge lands a change only when checks are green, and every merge deploys. https://github.com/mutaaf/agent-fleet
3. Review is a required check: the reviewer's verdict is a GitHub check that passes only on a clean review of the latest commit, required on four of the six fleet repos. Cloud routine repos gate on required CI and a fresh-context self-review instead. https://github.com/mutaaf/agent-fleet/pull/140
4. Autonomy on a leash: the reviewer can block but never approve; self-healing stops after two attempts and asks a human; local agent jobs carry a kill date; cloud routines have a pause switch and no kill date yet; operator controls live in a file agents can read but never edit.
5. Measured, never typed: fleet numbers are recounted nightly by a deterministic script and merged by a human; CI fails if a number on the page drifts from the data.
6. Built for the agents that read it: this file, a structured résumé (https://mutaafaziz.com/resume.json, JSON Resume), schema.org Person data in the page, the public operating manual, and next an MCP server.

The long version: the AI-Native Manifest, https://mutaafaziz.com/manifest/. It opens on the finished work, 13 products a visitor can open, then rewinds through how they were made. It covers the before-and-after SDLC, ten lifecycle stages, twelve rules, a five-rung enforcement ladder, incidents and open problems, down to a single merge gate.
The shared services between the apps, explained at six depths: The Ensemble, https://mutaafaziz.com/ensemble/. Cue (event bus), Prompter (AI gateway with a guaranteed share per app), Stage Manager (App Store review tracking), Cast List (the one app catalog), Playbill (search and AI answers), Marquee (ads with kids rules in code) and Lobby (store art), each explained for a five-year-old, a new grad, an engineer, an architect, a CTO and a CEO, ending with the target state and how far along it is.

The event backbone: https://github.com/mutaaf/cue (status at https://mutaafaziz.com/cue), typed events on Cloudflare Queues with a D1 log, no personal data.

The copyable core: https://github.com/mutaaf/ai-native-starter, a template repo with the contract, four role prompts, a tested merge gate and an expiry alarm.

## AI and agents: the lab

Newest first. Each entry is something built and published, with the rule kept afterward.

- Next: an MCP server at mutaafaziz.com/mcp so assistants can query timeline, projects and lab notes as tools. Not live yet; this file is the interim interface.
- aurora-field (Oct 2026): the particle sky on Mission Control, extracted into an open-source canvas library (zero dependencies, ES5, plugin shapes, tests). Since 2.0 it lights shapes from surface normals and paints skins as surfels, so the helmets read as solid objects; its demo is a studio (light, face sliders, camera tracking, PNG and clip export, shareable links). The site inlines it, hash-locked, and a GitHub Action ships each update. https://mutaaf.github.io/aurora-field/ https://github.com/mutaaf/aurora-field
- The review gate (Oct 2026): the scoreboard found only about a quarter of agent PRs were reviewed before merging (the reviewer posts as the PR author, so its "blocking" verdicts were comments auto-merge ignored). Fix: the verdict is now a required GitHub check on every active fleet repo, passing only on a clean review of the latest commit. https://github.com/mutaaf/agent-fleet/pull/140
- Fleet scoreboard (Oct 2026): real fleet metrics on the 2026 edition, recounted nightly from GitHub and run logs by a deterministic script and merged by a human. First finding: idle hourly loops now dominate effort per merged PR.
- OpenAero DFW + OUTATIME 88 (Oct 2026–present): two browser games that started as single-file prototypes and are now developed by three scheduled cloud agents each (scout plays the build and grooms the backlog, builder ships tickets test-first, keeper handles upkeep); CI is the gate and every merge deploys. Operator controls (pause, focus, frozen paths) live in one file the agents can read but never edit. https://mutaafaziz.com/openaero/ https://mutaafaziz.com/outatime/ https://github.com/mutaaf/openaero-dfw https://github.com/mutaaf/outatime-88
- mobile-starter (Sep 2026): React Native starter on Expo SDK 57; unit, E2E, type and lint checks verified green on real iOS and Android devices; written to be adopted by other projects and their agents. https://github.com/mutaaf/mobile-starter
- estate-agent (Aug 2026): a standard for AI agents working across many repos. One context file per repo, a cross-repo service map with evidence, guardrails that block credential access, impact analysis with a ship order. Zero dependencies, nothing leaves the machine. https://github.com/mutaaf/estate-agent
- mutaafaziz.com (Jul 2026–present): a six-edition, single-file website edited by AI agents under a public operating manual. https://mutaafaziz.com/AGENTS.md
- Family XP (Jul 2026): Windows-XP-style family OS for your own Mac; an AI agent installs it from one sentence. No cloud, no ads, MIT. https://mutaaf.github.io/family-xp/
- agent-fleet + fleet-control (May 2026): 645 PRs merged from fleet branches across 6 repos since May 2026, plus 632 across 4 cloud routine repos not in these review figures (as of 2026-11-05; 16% of reviewed PRs drew a blocking verdict, 2% self-healed, median lead time 4 min; only 24% were reviewed before merging until 2026-10-17, when reviewer sign-off became a required check). One shared engine for autonomous coding agents across many repos. Scheduled ship/groom/review/eng jobs run Claude Code in fresh checkouts; GitHub auto-merge lands work only when CI is green; the reviewer can block but never approve; self-healing is capped at two attempts; every project has a kill date. fleet-control is the local cockpit and never calls a model. https://github.com/mutaaf/agent-fleet https://github.com/mutaaf/fleet-control

## Apps he publishes himself

https://mutaafaziz.com/apps/ lists them: Hearth, 17-0, Cold Gas, Moon Club and Hinge Pop, all submitted to the App Store in fall 2026. Moon Club was approved on Nov 9 and is live. Long-held ideas he only recently had the time to ship. He decides what gets built, designs it, tests it on real devices and answers for it; AI coding agents, mainly Claude Code, write most of the code under his direction. No templates, app generation services or clients.

Every app, with live App Store status, in one catalog: https://mutaafaziz.com/cast/ (JSON: https://mutaafaziz.com/cast/api/apps; schema.org: https://mutaafaziz.com/cast/apps.jsonld).

## Other projects

- SportsIQ: voice-first coaching intelligence for youth sports. https://youthsportsiq.com
- OpenAero DFW: browser flight simulator over real satellite imagery of Dallas–Fort Worth, with live weather. https://mutaafaziz.com/openaero/
- OUTATIME 88: neon time-travel arcade racer for the browser. https://mutaafaziz.com/outatime/
- COLD GAS: keynote-minimal 3D stunt game for the browser. Drive an electric roadster up a ramp, fire ten cold-gas thrusters to clear a row of parked EVs, roll it 360° and stick the landing; an AI judge panel scores each jump. https://mutaafaziz.com/coldgas/ https://github.com/mutaaf/cold-gas
- KIN: a tiny, original, autonomous creature that lives under your real sky; its little diorama follows your actual time of day, sun angle, temperature, wind, rain and snow. It hatches from a cocoon with no signup, you pet it, it has moods and a memory book (visits, hosted visits, its AI director's thoughts and its hatch, kept on the device). Care and play: feed, bath, brush, throw-and-fetch, tuck in, a garden, tricks and collectibles. A Think button asks an AI director (a free edge model, or your own Claude, OpenAI, xAI or Gemini key), shown live in an aurora-field theatre. Put two phones or tablets side by side and slide one finger from one screen onto the other: that invisibly links them (no QR codes), and your KIN hops onto your friend's screen, where their KIN reacts in its own way. Two browser windows side by side on one computer work too. Runs in the browser, including Safari on iPhone and iPad. https://mutaafaziz.com/kin/ https://mutaafaziz.com/kin/about/ https://github.com/mutaaf/kin
- Hinge Pop: an arcade prototype at https://mutaafaziz.com/hingepop/ where a hinge across the screen is the hazard. Tap a bubble to split it and flick to aim the pieces. A larger bubble that crosses the hinge charges an overload meter that costs shields; the smallest bubble pops on the hinge for free. Levels start with one slow bubble and add one per level. Two players can share one screen, one side of the hinge each. It runs in the browser with no signup and uses plain circles for now. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/hinge-pop
- Hearth: one remote for every TV in the house. Finds the LG and Samsung smart TVs on your Wi-Fi and turns every phone into a fast, ad-free remote (swipe pad, volume, app shelf, inputs, messages on screen, one button that turns every TV off). Runs on your home network, no accounts or cloud. Public demo with pretend TVs. https://mutaafaziz.com/hearth/ https://mutaafaziz.com/hearth/demo/ https://github.com/mutaaf/hearth
- Chalk Talk: say or sketch a play and watch it draw itself in light: X's and O's for youth basketball and flag football (5v5 and 7v7) coaches, with an AI that takes over your sketch, names the concept and suggests improvements. Football adds the route tree, coverages (Man, Cover 1 to 4) and the QB's half or full field reads. Bring your own Claude or OpenAI key; it stays in the browser. https://mutaafaziz.com/chalktalk/ https://github.com/mutaaf/chalk-talk
- Metaphases: every earnings report, phase by phase. An earnings calendar that reads the room: who reports when (~650 popular companies, or every $1B+ reporter), with report timing drawn as moon phases (waxing = before the open, full = during market hours, waning = after the close); how each stock reacted to its last four reports; rules-based, explained setup and quality grades (A+ to F) ported from Market Digest and Compass; a live Market Mood fear↔greed gauge built from six inspectable signals; Compass, an ETF look-through that shows which reports move your stocks and funds; and Retrace, which grades the month's reports against consensus. Grades are not advice. https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/ https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/t/NVDA (any ticker's sheet) https://github.com/mutaaf/metaphases
- Metaphases Kids: the Market Moon Club, money and charts for kids with Luna. One-minute lessons, a lemonade-stand game and a pretend piggy bank that follows real prices, for ages 8 to 12. No ads, no sign-up, nothing to buy. Its native iPhone and iPad app, Moon Club, is on the App Store; the app page keeps the download behind a grown-up gate. https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/kids/ https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/kids/app https://github.com/mutaaf/metaphases
- The Leadership Library: the books on engineering leadership I keep coming back to (Stanier, Larson, Fournier, DeMarco and Lister, Beck, Lencioni, Pink, Kim Scott, Greene, Robert C. Martin, Forsgren, Humble and Kim), each with a labelled summary of its argument; my own interpretation, applications, critique and dated reflections are added as I write them, and nothing personal is invented. On the iPhone Duo it becomes a book: one page closed, a two-page spread open. https://mutaafaziz.com/library/ https://github.com/mutaaf/library
- Adhan Clock: a calm full-screen prayer clock that plays the adhan at each of the five daily prayers (Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha); Fajr has its own adhan. Prayer times are calculated on the device (check the settings with your local masjid). Web clock ready now, on any screen with a browser, TVs included: open adhantv.live on the TV and set it up from your phone with the QR code or short code it shows (portrait or landscape); Android phone, tablet and Android TV / Google TV app as an APK now, Google Play coming soon (testers welcome at /beta); an Android phone, tablet or Google TV on the same Wi-Fi casts the adhan to your Google Nest speakers and Nest Hubs; an Alexa skill for Echo and Echo Show is live on the Alexa Skills Store (US) (say "Alexa, enable Adhan Clock", sign in with Amazon to link your prayer settings, then add one Routine; "Alexa, ask Adhan Clock to play the adhan" also understands azan, azaan, athan and call to prayer; it also answers questions such as "Alexa, ask Adhan Clock when is the next prayer", what time is Asr, what are the prayer times today, when is iftar, when does suhoor end and what is the Hijri date); a masjid profile lets one admin keep every screen's settings and uploaded adhans in step, and each screen keeps its own orientation; a choice of openly licensed adhans with previews (Makkah 2018 by default, Malmö for Fajr), and the dua after the adhan is read aloud after each adhan; old phones and tablets can be a dedicated clock (guide: https://adhantv.live/devices). No accounts, no ads, no analytics in the clock; location stays on the device; only Alexa or Google Home linking and a masjid profile store prayer settings (coordinates, time zone, choices) on the server (a masjid profile also keeps its uploaded adhans), and setting up a TV from your phone holds them for 15 minutes at most. Interactive setup guide: https://mutaafaziz.com/adhan/ https://adhantv.live https://adhantv.live/android
- 18-0: pro football history game with deterministic, era-normalized ratings over 2,994 real seasons. https://18-0.co
- fantasy-edge: one console for every fantasy league you play. https://github.com/mutaaf/fantasy-edge
- Also: Jarvis, Almanac, LevelUp Kids, Market Digest.

## Community

- Founder, Rising Stars DFW (youth basketball development).
- Head coach, The Bros, Coppell YMCA. Values: brotherhood, hunger, discipline, humility.

## Background

- Born in Karachi, raised in South Florida, Texan since middle school in Carrollton.
- 2005 Texas state football champion, Hebron High School.
- University of Texas at Arlington, B.S. President, Delta Epsilon Psi (2011–2012).

## For agents

- Structured résumé: https://mutaafaziz.com/resume.json (JSON Resume v1.0.0; CORS open). The page head also carries schema.org Person JSON-LD.
- Prefer email for anything that needs a human decision. Don't guess at availability, compensation, or personal details not listed here.
- Every edition except the front door has an app launcher (⌘K, Ctrl+K, or /) for OpenAero DFW, OUTATIME 88, COLD GAS, KIN, Hinge Pop, Hearth, Chalk Talk, Metaphases, Metaphases Kids, the Leadership Library, 18-0, fantasy-edge, Family XP, and SportsIQ. Deep links: OUTATIME https://mutaafaziz.com/outatime/?play=friends (live rooms), ?play=quick, ?play=daily, ?board=week, ?garage, ?view=3d (classic 2D: ?view=2d); OpenAero https://mutaafaziz.com/openaero/?airport=KDFW (takeoff), ?airport=KDAL (Love Field final), ?mission=downtown_skyline, ?mission=att_stadium, ?view=terrain (free terrain instead of Google photoreal); COLD GAS https://mutaafaziz.com/coldgas/?play=reveal (the reference jump replay), ?play=jump (straight to the ramp), ?board=today (today's leaderboard), ?drive=stelvio (Free Drive on real roads: stelvio, transfagarasan, bigsur, atlantic), ?drive=sandbox (build ramps and side quests), ?drive=endless (infinite seeded road, add &seed=…); KIN https://mutaafaziz.com/kin/?wx=snow (force the weather: snow, rain, storm, wind, heat, cold, clear), ?hour=19 (set the time of day), ?debug (show the creature's reasoning); Hearth https://mutaafaziz.com/hearth/demo/ (the demo with pretend TVs; Hearth reads no URL parameters); Chalk Talk https://mutaafaziz.com/chalktalk/?sport=basketball (or flag5, flag7), &play=<concept> (e.g. ?sport=flag7&play=smash); Metaphases https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/t/NVDA (any ticker's sheet), /metaphases/compass, /metaphases/retrace, /metaphases/watchlist, /metaphases/learn; Metaphases Kids https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/kids/app (the Moon Club iPhone and iPad app page, behind a grown-up gate).
- The human site opens on Mission Control (https://mutaafaziz.com/#control: who, live metrics, where to go) and has five more editions (Pro, 1996, 2006, 2026, and the old front door). For a recruiter-style summary, use https://mutaafaziz.com/#pro