David Volz
Engineering who still
Senior EM at RealPage · leading 8 engineers across backend, data and front-end
Pick a word to read the work below both ways.
At work
- AI adoption
Led my team through RealPage’s AI adoption program, bringing AI-assisted PRs to 100% with Claude Code and Copilot.
- Team design
Restructured Analytics into 3 product teams with no in-flight work lost.
- Hiring
Built an AI-assisted interview kit with rubrics and an AI-fluency round.
And in what I build
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Building Shark Thief: Part 1
A ten-depth pixel-art arcade game, built from my son’s prompt and headed for iOS.
Ran like a small team: design, review and build agents, with checklists for repeat mistakes.
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The Daily Sort
Loads each day’s Connections words with Claude, so you can sort them before you guess.
Guardrails before shipping AI: a cost cap, filtering and a small, cheap model.
- Shapes and Grids
Animated lines and boxes on a grid, moved with transforms so they glide.
The layout-system thinking behind the site themes I built for hundreds of customers.
More writing and experiments
5 more posts, since 2024
- How I Built The Daily Sort
How I built a Connections scratch pad that loads each day’s board with Claude, where the AI code lives, and the prompt it sends.
- AI-Augmented Interviews
With only minutes to prep between meetings, I had AI do the interview homework, so I can walk in ready and spend the time on the conversation.
- Cat Background Slider
How I built a tiled SVG background with adjustable spacing using vanilla JavaScript.
- SVGs and Astro
Using Astro's SVG component feature to import SVGs inline or as sprites.
- Astro Scripts
Analyzing how Astro handles the script tag