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    "name": "Mutaaf Aziz",
    "label": "Founder, Digital Craft AI · Engineering leader, AI-native engineering",
    "email": "mutaaf.aziz@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com",
    "summary": "Founder of Digital Craft AI, an AI company building systems for traditional industries, with a seven-figure book of retained, recurring clients; it is his main work. Engineering leader with 15+ years in software and 10+ leading teams; also a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, leading Watch Experiences. Builds AI-native engineering systems (Claude Code, MCP, multi-agent pipelines) and runs them under a written operating model: contracts, not prompts; CI lands the work; review is a required check; autonomy on a leash; measured, never typed.",
    "location": { "region": "Texas", "city": "Dallas–Fort Worth", "countryCode": "US" },
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  },
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    {
      "name": "Digital Craft AI",
      "position": "Founder",
      "url": "https://digitalcraftai.com",
      "summary": "AI systems for construction, real estate and events.",
      "highlights": [
        "AI lead responders, estimate generators, review management and voice agents.",
        "A seven-figure book of retained, recurring clients.",
        "Fractional CTO on retainer: https://cto.digitalcraftai.com",
        "Engineering runs on an autonomous agent fleet he designed: scheduled agents ship pull requests behind CI and a required reviewer sign-off, with a human in the loop."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineering Manager, Watch Experiences",
      "startDate": "2022-08",
      "highlights": [
        "Backend services behind how fans stream ESPN: 1.5M+ concurrent viewers and 20K+ requests per 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, and AI support for review, testing and documentation, with governance and human approval where it matters."
      ]
    },
    { "name": "Amazon", "position": "Engineering Leadership, Amazon Flex", "startDate": "2021", "endDate": "2022", "summary": "Last-mile logistics." },
    { "name": "Motorola Solutions", "position": "Senior Software Engineering Manager", "startDate": "2018", "endDate": "2021", "summary": "Public-safety technology." },
    { "name": "Alight Solutions", "position": "Software Engineering Manager", "startDate": "2014", "endDate": "2018", "summary": "Benefits platforms." },
    { "name": "Red Hat · Citi · Ambit Energy · Lufthansa · JPMorgan Chase", "position": "Enterprise engineering", "startDate": "2009", "endDate": "2014" }
  ],
  "education": [{ "institution": "University of Texas at Arlington", "studyType": "B.S." }],
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    { "name": "AI-native engineering", "keywords": ["Claude Code", "Model Context Protocol", "multi-agent pipelines", "AI-assisted review, testing and docs", "evaluation and governance"] },
    { "name": "Leadership", "keywords": ["team building and org health", "product strategy", "delivery discipline", "written narratives"] },
    { "name": "Platforms", "keywords": ["distributed systems", "AWS", "GCP", "Kubernetes", "CI/CD", "Elasticsearch", "caching at scale"] },
    { "name": "Engineering", "keywords": ["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Java", "React", "REST APIs", "data modeling"] }
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    { "name": "estate-agent", "url": "https://github.com/mutaaf/estate-agent", "description": "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." },
    { "name": "aurora-field", "url": "https://github.com/mutaaf/aurora-field", "description": "Open-source particle-field canvas library (zero dependencies, ES5, tested), with on-device face tracking. The sky on mutaafaziz.com." },
    { "name": "OpenAero DFW · OUTATIME 88", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/openaero/", "description": "Browser games developed by three scheduled cloud agents each, behind CI; every merge deploys." },
    { "name": "COLD GAS", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/coldgas/", "description": "A 3D browser stunt game: an electric roadster clears a row of parked EVs on ten cold-gas thrusters, rolls 360° and sticks the landing; an AI judge panel scores each jump." },
    { "name": "KIN", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/kin/", "description": "A tiny autonomous creature that lives under your real sky (time of day, sun angle, temperature, wind, rain, snow). Put two phones or tablets side by side and slide a finger across: they link invisibly and KIN hops onto the other screen. Runs in the browser, including Safari on iPhone and iPad. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/kin" },
    { "name": "Hinge Pop", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/hingepop/", "description": "An arcade prototype where a hinge across the screen is the hazard: split bubbles and keep them off the hinge, across levels that start with one slow bubble, with a two-player mode on one screen. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/hinge-pop" },
    { "name": "Hearth", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/hearth/", "description": "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. Runs on the home network, no accounts or cloud; public demo at https://mutaafaziz.com/hearth/demo/. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/hearth" },
    { "name": "Chalk Talk", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/chalktalk/", "description": "Say or sketch a play and watch it draw itself in light: X's and O's for youth basketball and flag football coaches, with an AI that takes over your sketch. Sport-agnostic engine, route tree, coverages and QB reads, bring-your-own-key AI." },
    { "name": "Metaphases", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/", "description": "Every earnings report, phase by phase: an earnings calendar with report timing drawn as moon phases, each stock's reaction to its last four reports, rules-based setup and quality grades ported from Market Digest, a live fear-greed gauge, ETF look-through exposure, and Retrace, which grades the month against consensus. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/metaphases" },
    { "name": "Metaphases Kids", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/metaphases/kids/", "description": "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, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to buy. Its native iPhone and iPad app, Moon Club, is on the App Store. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/metaphases" },
    { "name": "The Leadership Library", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/library/", "description": "The books on engineering leadership I keep coming back to, each with a labelled summary of its argument; my own notes are added as I write them. On the iPhone Duo it becomes a book. Source: https://github.com/mutaaf/library" },
    { "name": "Adhan Clock", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/adhan/", "description": "A calm full-screen prayer clock that plays the adhan at each of the five daily prayers (Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha), with prayer times calculated on the device. Runs on the web, as an Android phone, tablet and TV app (APK), casts to Google Nest speakers from Android, and is live as an Alexa skill in the US. No accounts, no ads, no analytics in the clock. App: https://adhantv.live" },
    { "name": "mutaafaziz.com", "url": "https://mutaafaziz.com/AGENTS.md", "description": "A six-edition, single-file website edited by AI agents under a public operating manual, with a plain-text brief for AI readers at /llms.txt." }
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