Kodetive · Keaton Jones · Salt Lake City

Built, reviewed, fixed, shipped.

Web and mobile products from the first architecture call to the store listing, and the hard fixes after. I build apps, review other people’s, and help teams make the software decisions that are expensive to get wrong.

CTO ShredderCTO TrotEngineering lead Continuas AIFounder Kodetive
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Kodetive

Most app problems are decisions, not code.

Kodetive is my engineering practice. I work across the whole life of a product: picking the stack, building it, getting it through review, and keeping it standing once real users show up. Writing the code is the easy part. Knowing which tradeoff will hurt in six months is what takes experience.

4Products in production
100,000+Shredder users
2,900+Commits in the last 12 months
2022Shipping production code since
How I work

Four kinds of work, one standard.

01

Build

Web and mobile products, owned from the data model to the store listing.

  • Backend picked for the shape of the data: Convex, Supabase or Postgres
  • Auth and payments that survive the edge cases: Clerk, Stripe, RevenueCat
  • React Native and Expo, EAS builds, over-the-air updates
  • Store submission and a release pipeline that isn’t one laptop
02

Review

A second set of eyes from someone who has shipped the thing before.

  • Specs read the way a CTO reads them, before the money is spent
  • Tenant isolation, auth and data access checked for gaps
  • Vendor timelines checked against how vendors really behave
  • Code review for the change that hurts in six months
03

Fix

Production problems traced back to the cause, not patched over.

  • Crash triage from Sentry down to the line that matters
  • Email deliverability: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI
  • App Store rejections answered and resolved
  • Subscription state that drifted away from the store
04

Advise

Software decisions with the tradeoffs on the table.

  • Build or buy, migrations, and the real cost of each
  • AI features: which model, cost per user, what data it touches
  • SOC 2 and Google restricted-scope security readiness
  • Bringing developers on and off without losing access
Experience

Where the work happens.

CTO
Shredder
Primary engineer on a 255,000-line React Native app past 100,000 users. Rebuilt matching from 250+ queries per request to 8–10 batched reads, and leading the move onto Supabase.
Sep 2025 – now
CTO
Trot
Technical lead for a mobile app incubator backing first-time founders. I set the architecture for each app, build alongside or direct the developers, run QA and sprints, and get it through the stores.
Jun 2026 – now
Engineering lead
Continuas AI
AI platform for recruiting and sales teams. When I started it only drafted email replies. I’ve grown it into automations, an opportunity scanner, a filing system and centralized notifications, and I own security and compliance.
May 2026 – now
Founder
Kodetive
My own practice: builds, technical reviews, rescues and advisory work for founders and small teams.
Oct 2025 – now
Software developer
C.R. England
C#/.NET APIs serving 10,000+ daily interactions under 300 ms, React and TypeScript components, and SQL outbox connectors that cut memory use by 40%.
May 2022 – Aug 2025
Platforms · tools · languages

What's on the bench.

Tools I've shipped production work with, not just tried. Grab a row and pull it.

Selected work

In production.

Apps in the stores and a web platform recruiting teams run on. Open one to see what I did.

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Shredder
Contact

Talk shop.

A build you’re planning, a stack decision you’re weighing, or something in production that won’t stay fixed. Happy to talk it through.

keaton@kodetive.comGitHubLinkedInSalt Lake City, Utah