Dendrite
The corpus engine behind the public-data fleet: one configuration turns a raw dataset into an MCP server, a REST API, and a static site.
Projects
40 public-data APIs turning US government datasets into MCP servers and REST APIs, e-commerce and AI engineering for brands like Pat McGrath Labs and Credo Beauty, plus a handful of ventures of my own.
443 MCP tools · 313 REST routes · 2,000+ generated pages on the data side, and live storefronts and integrations on the commerce side.
Case studies
The corpus engine behind the public-data fleet: one configuration turns a raw dataset into an MCP server, a REST API, and a static site.
A zero-runtime continuity layer over git and files that guards long-horizon LLM work against forgetting and confabulation.
An AI assessment OS for surgical training, scaffolding modules through agentic automation, combining peer, expert, and automated review, with AI feedback and video tuned for low-resource settings.
Multi-year work for a leading US clean-beauty retailer: Shopify Plus, deep NetSuite ERP and POS integration, and a mobile app taken from zero to over $5M a year in sales.
A platform for collective-action campaigns powered by conditional commitments, pledges that only trigger once a threshold is met.
The catalog
The corpus engine behind the public-data fleet: one configuration turns a raw dataset into an MCP server, a REST API, and a static site.
A zero-runtime continuity layer over git and files that guards long-horizon LLM work against forgetting and confabulation.
A complete, searchable SEC EDGAR corpus, every public-company filing from 1993 to today, as MCP and REST.
A price-history API and alerting service for LLM tokens, track model pricing over time and get notified on drops.
A workbench for collaborative, multi-turn reasoning over documents.
An MCP server for the Shopify Admin, Storefront, and Partner APIs plus theme management, 332 tools organized into 41 lazy-loaded categories.
A small Python package wrapping LangChain for everyday LLM work: prompt templating, generation, and batch runs behind one client class.
An AI assessment OS for surgical training, scaffolding modules through agentic automation, combining peer, expert, and automated review, with AI feedback and video tuned for low-resource settings.
Audio AI that transcribed, anonymized, and indexed thousands of hours of multilingual field interviews, making them queryable by meaning, not keywords.
A self-directed surgical-education platform: a portfolio-intelligence dashboard that scores training modules against a 37-step playbook, and an AI module builder that interviews authors into compliance.
AI visual identification for the fine-jewelry brand: point a phone at a piece and the system tells you which one it is. Plus the storefront redesign behind it.
Residency-assessment analytics for University of Michigan OB-GYN: MedHub evaluation data through a Rasch measurement model into competency dashboards and reports.
Multi-year work for a leading US clean-beauty retailer: Shopify Plus, deep NetSuite ERP and POS integration, and a mobile app taken from zero to over $5M a year in sales.
Storefront design and serverless feed and webhook middleware for the patmcgrath.com Shopify experience.
A Shopify storefront redesign for the heritage canvas-goods maker, rebuilt for speed and conversion.
Shopify storefront plus a serverless ETL pipeline powering product-listing filtering for the fine-jewelry brand.
US Shopify storefront theme and custom checkout apps for the Swiss cellular-cosmetics brand.
Customer-intelligence AI for the luxury mattress retailer, ingesting calls, chat, reviews, and tickets to surface the real reasons people buy, plus a support chatbot.
Shopify theme with social-selling serverless tasks, an image-upload proxy, and seller analytics for weareohho.com.
Serverless integration tasks behind the Temple St. Clair fine-jewelry storefront.
Storefront engineering and an in-flight redesign for the hydrogel-mask brand, backed by custom audit, analytics, and screenshot tooling.
Migrated the furniture retailer's collection pages onto a Preact front end powered by Nosto search, reusing the theme's exact markup so no CSS had to be duplicated.
Long-running theme engineering for the clean-beauty retailer: store locator, brand directory, clean-standards content system, and gift-with-purchase mechanics.
Custom Shopify theme for the uniform-design house serving hospitality and aviation brands: client galleries, lookbooks, and services sections on a heavily extended Dawn base.
Shopify theme build for the fine-jewelry brand's storefront on a Dawn base.
Headless Shopify storefront for the New York restaurant's commerce arm: Next.js over the Storefront API, with Contentful powering editorial and story pages alongside full commerce.
Four years as technical lead building a custom commerce-and-service engine for a vacation-rental business: storefront off WordPress, fulfillment and operations integrated end to end.
A platform for collective-action campaigns powered by conditional commitments, pledges that only trigger once a threshold is met.
An AI platform and product, built with the OpenFace AI team.
A Lens Specification API that extracts structured optical-lens specs from natural-language descriptions using LLMs, with an iterative chat interface.
Identity resolution at scale across consumer, credit-bureau, and device-graph data: a fine-tuned embedding model, a GPU pipeline that embedded 150M records for about $230, graph clustering into stable IDs, and an FCRA gate on every credit-bureau read.
Infrastructure where AI agents live: identity, deployment, persistence, messaging, and budgets for long-lived agents, one layer beneath the frameworks.
An AI speaking coach: record yourself, get phoneme-level pronunciation scoring and LLM coaching tuned to your goal, from accent reduction to public speaking.
Civic-tech application integrating dozens of APIs and analyzing a billion-plus data points to help candidates and advocacy groups organize and campaign.
Co-founded a SaaS bundling sales, email, and early AI software, including a custom protocol; the largest corporate partner was Moo.
A machine-readable enumeration of every US governmental entity, from the federal branches down to special districts, with the offices inside them.
Co-founded venture turning seniors’ life stories into professional mini-biographies for dementia care: a Rails storytelling platform plus a freelance-writer marketplace. Halcyon Cohort 6; inaugural WeWork Creator Awards ($130K grant, 2017).
Judicial software for New Jersey’s property-tax-appeals system (subcontracted, State of New Jersey): the legal-appeals web app plus Assessored, a companion assessment tool.
Mold-inspection platform with IoT sensing: field inspection workflow with analog air sampling tracked in software, Protimeter BLE moisture meters and FLIR C/E thermal cameras integrated, and custom leave-behind sensors taken through contract manufacturing to a mass-production build.
Allergy-telehealth engineering for the custom-formula allergy clinic: provider app, patient app, and backend.
Shopify Plus migration and Stripe subscription billing for the DTC cat-litter subscription brand.
Interface engineering on the DEEPSPACE web3 space game: the Next.js token and liquidity interface.
Space-catalog web and OIDC auth integration at Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton: a subcontract (via TTJB Inc) with direct LM network access, identity, and hardware.
Native iOS healthtech app for NeuroPraxis.
Federal court dockets, district, bankruptcy, appellate, and Supreme.
EPA-regulated facilities and environmental enforcement actions.
HHS-OIG excluded providers, integrity agreements, and civil penalties.
DOJ FARA foreign-agent registrations and disclosures.
Senate LDA lobbying disclosures, queryable via MCP and REST.
OSHA workplace inspections, citations, and severe-injury records.
Every FEC campaign-finance filing, queryable via MCP and REST.
NHTSA, FDA, USDA, and CPSC safety recalls in one place.
Federal Register notices, proposed and final rules, and executive orders.
OFAC, UN, EU, UK, and SAM sanctions and debarment lists.
CMS Open Payments, drug and device payments to physicians.
EEOC lawsuits, charge statistics, and EEO-1 employment data.
CMS Hospital Compare, provider data, and Medicare cost reports.
NLRB case decisions, elections, and unfair-labor-practice cases.
IRS Form 990 tax-exempt nonprofit filings, queryable via MCP and REST.
US retirement and benefit plans, pensions, and Form 5500 filings.
OpenFDA drugs, labels, adverse events, and recalls.
USAspending federal contracts, grants, and awards.
NIH and NSF research grants and federal research funding.
ClinicalTrials.gov registrations and posted results.
BLS occupations, wages, employment, and job openings.
DEA ARCOS controlled-substance distributor reports.
FFIEC Call Reports and Federal Reserve FR Y-9C bank financials.
Congressional bills, votes, and committee hearings.
MSRB EMMA and FINRA TRACE municipal and corporate bonds.
US Census, ACS, and Economic Census demographic indicators.
CFPB consumer complaints and enforcement actions.
US storms, droughts, FEMA disasters, and environmental justice.
CVE, NVD, and CISA KEV public software vulnerabilities, cross-referenced.
US power plants, generators, and electricity pricing.
FERC dockets, filings, Form 1 utility financials, and EQR data.
HMDA Home Mortgage Disclosure Act applications.
Academic papers, authors, and citations via OpenAlex.
USPTO granted patents from 1976 to today, with metadata.
DOT PHMSA pipeline operators, incidents, and infrastructure.
SBA lending, PPP, EIDL, 7(a), 504, and disaster loans.
FAA aircraft registry, NTSB accidents, and airworthiness directives.
USPTO trademark applications, registrations, and TTAB proceedings.
US Treasury auctions and Federal Reserve economic series.
Since 2008: 86 named engagements and 6 worked-with relationships, drawn to one scale: employment, founded companies, consulting, and independent work all run concurrently, which is the point.
source: content/career/engagements.json · reconciled 2026-08-31
The consulting practice behind the named rows: Upwork Expert-Vetted (top 1%), $500K+ earned across 27 contracts and 4,483 hours since 2016. Client names not shown here stay private until each client agrees otherwise; the full ledger is available in conversation.
Andrew Fribush, software and computer engineer in Austin. I build consequential systems where software meets institutions: finance, healthcare, commerce, government data, and the mechanisms that govern AI agents. Taking new engagements: hello@andrewfribush.com.