On Autodemia
- Answers from any screen, knowing the lesson you’re on.
- Explains from your own sources, with checked citations.
- Grades your work without handing you the answer.
Taking contract builds Remote
John P. McGlone, AI Product EngineerI build and ship AI-powered apps end to end.
- Idea
- Design with AI
- Build with AI
- Launch with AI inside
- Updates
AI at every step after the idea
iOS, web, backend and the AI features inside them, built and shipped by one engineer. 17 years shipping software; the sole iOS engineer behind Rumble Studio.
Hiring full-time? See my résumé PDF
Previously at
Rumble
Imgur
DocuSign
Workday
WalmartTaking contract builds
Work with me
I take on 2–3 contract builds at a time, remote from Roanoke, VA (Eastern time).
MVP build
About 6 weeksIdea to launched iOS and/or web app, including the backend.
- Backend and auth
- Stripe billing and analytics
- Fixed scope, weekly demos
AI feature sprint
2–4 weeksAssistants, summaries, agents, and Claude/MCP integrations in the product you have.
- Cost controls: model routing, usage caps
- Tests for the AI features
Proof: Marv and “Catch me up” on Men of Hunger. Autodemia’s model routing keeps AI spend below revenue.
App rescue & launch
A stalled, buggy, or rejected iOS app, unstuck and shipped.
- Crash, build, and review fixes
- CI and testing
- App Store submission
Rate: $150/hr, or a fixed price per scope. How I build
Products I built end to end
- AutodemiaAI study partner. 260+ merged pull requests in its first week. Case study
Men of HungerAPI, web, iOS, and Android, plus Marv, its AI assistant. Case study - Rumble StudioSole iOS developer. 2,000+ creators within months of launch. Case study
Also open to remote, full-time Founding Engineer, Product Engineer, AI Engineer, or Forward Deployed Engineer roles.
How I build
One engineer, AI agents, and tests on every merge
Agents type, I decide
AI coding agents, mostly Claude Code, do most of the typing. I own the product decisions, the architecture, and every code review.
Tests gate every merge
Lint, type checks, and tests run on every pull request. If they fail, it doesn’t merge.
AI features with controls
AI features ship with cost and quality controls: model routing, usage caps, and tests.
One owner, design to App Store
The same person takes it from design to the App Store, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.
Building now
What I’m working on
Meet Marv
One AI assistant, in both products.
Marv is the AI assistant I built for Autodemia and Men of Hunger. He’s the same character in both, plain and direct, but he does a different job in each.
On Men of Hunger
- Catch me up: briefs a long thread. It’s his main job. Case study
- Chats in DMs and threads, and searches the web for news.
- Runs tasks and a morning brief. His changes wait for your OK.
He gets better on his own in both. Once a day he reviews how his answers landed, from corrections, pushback, and reactions, and writes himself plain-language lessons. Nothing private makes it into them.
Latest big project Shipped
Rumble Studio, on every Apple screen.
I built Rumble Studio for iOS from scratch as its sole developer, then shipped every update on iPhone and iPad. The same iPad app runs on Vision Pro, with custom UI so eye tracking can highlight each control.
2,000+ creators adopted Studio by May 2024. Some who went live with it:
More creators in the Studio case study
“The Rumble Studio feature is incredible. Effortless streaming on multiple platforms at the same time.”
The personal side of building
AI in my
everyday life.
I build with AI at work, but I also use it to solve problems at home, preserve family history, and keep track of my finances.
An AI biographer
I’m building an AI biographer for my memoir. Custom tools connect letters, photos, stories, and interviews through a graph of people and relationships, developing the book, a wiki, and a family tree.
Illustrative workflowExplore a source
AI biographer People + relationships
Book Wiki Family tree
Letters add a voice. Connections give it context.
A little help running home.
I use household agents with my wife, connecting Linear home tasks, calendars, and email. A morning brief helps us get going. Evening wins help us close the day.
Start with a little clarity
One shared view of the day.
What’s coming up. What needs attention.
Linear+Calendars+EmailIllustrative workflow
My finances, organized.
I use AI to organize my income, spending, expenses, and assets into a clearer picture of my finances.
IncomeSpendingExpensesAssets
One clearer view
Less scattered. More understandable. Illustrative workflow · no account data
Career
The road here
2009 to today. Drag through it, or use the arrow keys.
2009
Northern Kentucky University
Northern Kentucky University2011Workday
Workday2013DocuSign
DocuSign2015Imgur
Imgur2016
Layer
Layer2017
Eligible
Eligible2019
AD:60
AD:60
Airside Mobile2020Walmart Labs
Walmart Labs
Supersapiens2021
Rite Aid
Rite Aid2022EEpihealthy
Callin2023Rumble
Rumble2023 – 2026
Rumble
Lead iOS Developer (Studio) · Senior iOS Developer (Video)
Sole iOS developer for Rumble Studio, a livestreaming app that streams to six platforms at once, adopted by 2,000+ creators by May 2024. Built it from scratch to the App Store with the backend and design teams, set the iOS technical direction, and owned every update on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro.
Joined via Callin acquisition · May 2023
Excerpt from James Whitney’s recommendation
…John single-handedly built the Rumble Studio app from the ground up.
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