About Me

I'm Keith. I'm the founder of NoCodeVerse. Here's the longer version of who I am.

The short answer

I'm a creative-engineering type who spent years inventing and shipping things — physical products, food businesses, mechanical designs, consulting work — and then got obsessed with AI and started building software the same way. I don't write code. I work with Claude. I ship real things.

Vibe coding wasn't a pivot for me. It was the first time the tools finally caught up with how my brain already worked.

How I got here

I came up as a mechanical/design engineer in the automotive industry. I designed a full suite of machines in the direct-to-film t-shirt printing industry. I started a food company (Red-Headed Step Taco, a gringo's take on fry bread tacos), was featured on a full series on the Rebel Entrepreneur podcast, and have a garage still full of equipment. I've built things with my hands and shipped products to customers. None of those were "software" in the traditional sense.

When generative AI hit, something clicked. The bottleneck for builders like me — people with ideas and taste but without classical CS backgrounds — was suddenly gone. I could finally make the digital things I'd been sketching in my head for years. I started shipping consumer apps. I started building Sparkverse with my brother KC. And I started watching the whole "you have to be a real developer" gate fall down in real time.

That's the story I want NoCodeVerse to tell. Not "shortcut to being a developer." A new path entirely — and one that's only going to grow.

The personal stuff

I have eight kids. My wife Kayla is my partner in everything that matters, and we're raising our family in Maricopa, Arizona. We left organized religion about five years ago after a faith crisis, and that experience shaped a lot of how I think about belief, community, and the courage it takes to build your own path.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 33. That diagnosis explained a lot — the hyperfixations, the project-hopping, the ability to disappear into a build for ten hours and forget to eat. I've learned to work with my brain instead of against it. NoCodeVerse is, in part, a way to channel that hyperfixation energy into something that compounds publicly.

I'm a self-taught juggler and unicyclist and can make balloon animals. I can pluck a few chords on the guitar and play the piano from time to time. I convinced my mom to teach me to crochet at age 5 because it looked fun. My first business was around 6th grade when I launched Keith's Candy Creations where I molded flavored melted chocolate into different shapes and sold them to my classmates. I served a Spanish-speaking mission in Oakland as a 19 year old and I'm still fluent. I want to write children's books someday. Did I ention I have ADHD? 🤣

What I'm building besides NoCodeVerse

I have a small portfolio of consumer AI apps under an umbrella called Sparkverse that I co-founded with my brother KC. The most relevant ones:

Squigglee — a kids' creative AI app. Magic Prompt, Imagination Lens, Character Library, Storybook Generator, Pattern Generator, Coloring Page Converter, and a Sound Studio module currently in active development.
StyleMuse — an AI fashion app. LoRA-trained outfit generation, virtual try-on, swipeable carousel UX.
Savorly — AI-powered meal planning app with pantry-first planning, weekly meal calendar, one-tap grocery list, guided cooking mode, leftover remix, and recipe scaling (very handy with 8 kids 😉)

I'll occasionally reference my SparkVerse projects when something I'm learning over there is genuinely useful here.

Why I'm building NoCodeVerse

I've been using Claude obsessively for months — not just as a tool but as a genuine collaborator. I've built more in the last year with AI than in the previous five combined, and somewhere in that build streak I realized two things. First, vibe coders don't have a real home. Second, I really want to find out whether agent-built, community-governed software actually works — not as a thought experiment, but by doing it.

NoCodeVerse is the most ambitious version of that experiment I can mount. I'm building it loudly, in public, because that's the only way it can be what it claims to be. Whatever it becomes — a community, a proving ground, a real business, or just a thing I learned a lot from — I'm here for the build.

How to reach me

[keith@sparkverse.dev — @NoCodeVerse]

Last updated 5/9/26. Things change. So will this page.