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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" },
    "profiles": [{ "network": "GitHub", "username": "mutaaf", "url": "https://github.com/mutaaf" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "mutaaf", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutaaf" }, { "network": "Calendly", "username": "mutaaf", "url": "https://calendly.com/mutaaf" }]
  },
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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": "agent-fleet + fleet-control", "url": "https://github.com/mutaaf/agent-fleet", "description": "One shared engine for autonomous coding agents across many repos: scheduled ship, groom, review and eng jobs run Claude Code in fresh checkouts; auto-merge lands work only on green CI; the reviewer can block but never approve; self-healing is capped at two attempts; every project has a kill date." },
    { "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": "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": "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": "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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