AI Product Engineer · Founder

Robert Kinder

I use AI to fix real problems

Four products in production: two AI SaaS apps and two client platforms. I designed, built, and run each one end to end.

The "About Me" section, animated. Software by day, welding and 3D printing in the shop, and the family it's all for.Created with Higgsfield AI, driven from Claude Code. How it was made →
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Recent projects

The work

Two case studies walk through the decisions, the shipped systems, where they fail, and the numbers behind each product. Not just a feature list.

Selected builds

Other products I designed, built, and shipped.

Desktop App · Windows + macOS

PicPlotter Auto

Places geotagged field photos and videos on satellite imagery automatically, with a live map editor, then exports an interactive HTML map, Google Earth KMZ, or a permanent client link in one click.

Desktop app

Site · Live

Marketing Site

Marketing site and quote pipeline for an excavating and sitework contractor in New Jersey, built for local customers who would rather call than fill out a form.

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Owner Only · Private

Operations Platform

A private bakery operations platform that takes each request from quote and signed agreement through deposits, production, inventory, and a completed order.

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About

Who I am

A product designer and engineer who turns messy real-world workflows into shipped AI products. Most of the work on this site started as a problem of my own.

By day I lead a cross-functional Integrated Product Team at Raytheon, owning customer-facing technical work from problem framing through delivery. The products on this site are what I build outside that job, and I own each one end to end: discovery, design, code, launch, and the iteration after.

For two and a half years I also owned and operated a commercial line striping company in Tucson. LineStriper AI began as the tool I used to estimate and quote my own jobs, then grew into a product for other contractors. I sold the business in 2026 and kept the software.

Before that came eleven years of complex technical work: defense systems at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, and automotive forensics at DJS Associates, where I founded the firm's mobile-device forensics practice and authored SAE International technical papers. That background is why I care so much about edge cases, recovery paths, and whether AI output can actually be trusted.

Away from the keyboard I weld cafe racer frames, 3D print unicorns for my daughter, and lose at the memory game to a two-year-old. The animation at the top of the page is those stories in order.

Based in
Oro Valley, Arizona
Currently
Integrated Product Team Lead, Raytheon
Education
M.S. Engineering Technology, DrexelB.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers
Stack
React, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Go, PyTorch, Convex, Vercel
Contact
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