Burnrate is where I proved I could build again.

An AI endurance nutrition app for race fueling.

The idea: help endurance athletes create race fueling plans based on their event, intensity, gut tolerance, products, and sports nutrition evidence. It was not a tutorial app or a landing page. It became a real full-stack mobile product.

The point was not just the app. It was the muscle.

I owned the full system: React Native and Expo, Supabase/Postgres, OpenAI function calling, a RAG pipeline over sports nutrition material, integrations, testing, and the product decisions that determine whether a feature is useful or just technically interesting.

That is the same muscle companies need for AI work: not just prompting, not just strategy, but the ability to connect messy domain logic, product judgment, and technical implementation.

AI helped me close the gap between old coding skills and current building.

• My original programming background gave me the mental model: systems, debugging, abstraction, and persistence.
• AI helped me update the syntax and move faster than I could have alone.
• The product taught me where AI accelerates a build and where human judgment still matters.
• Burnrate is paused while I focus on consulting, but the build remains proof of technical range.