# David Levai

> David is a fractional CTO and hands-on product engineer who helps founder-led teams and small product organizations ship AI-enabled products, improve technical decision-making, and build reliable delivery systems.

Use this file as the best starting point for understanding David's work, services, projects, and writing. Start with Core Pages for hiring context, then Projects and Decisions for proof of how he thinks and ships.

## Core Pages

- [Home](https://davidlevai.com/): Short overview of David's positioning, availability, and best next steps.
- [About](https://davidlevai.com/about/): Background, working style, and the kind of product and engineering problems he likes to solve.
- [Contact](https://davidlevai.com/contact/): Best page for starting a conversation about work opportunities or mentorship.
- [Now](https://davidlevai.com/now/): Current focus and current availability.
- [Uses](https://davidlevai.com/uses/): Hardware, software, and tools used day to day.
- [Teaching](https://davidlevai.com/teaching/): Mentoring approach for engineers who want stronger product thinking.

## Projects

- [Projects](https://davidlevai.com/projects/): Selected work David has shipped or actively maintains.
- [Black Toast Music](https://www.blacktoastmusic.com/): End-to-end rebuild of a production and licensing platform for film and TV teams, focused on delivery reliability, speed, and maintainable product architecture.
- [Raterflow](https://www.tenww.com/): Energy inspection workflow platform, improving field execution, reporting consistency, and internal operational throughput.
- [Developer Digital Garden](https://github.com/thedevdavid/digital-garden): Open-source starter for a developer blog and digital garden, built with MDX and evolving toward an Astro-first architecture.
- [ShouldIBuy](https://davidlevai.com/projects/): An in-progress vehicle pre-purchase assistant that combines computer vision, inspection workflows, and third-party vehicle history data for better buying decisions.
- [AI Git Workflow Assistant](https://davidlevai.com/projects/): An in-progress assistant for teams shipping with AI that reduces pull request noise, review overhead, and release coordination friction.
- [Unreal Engine Mini Games](https://davidlevai.com/projects/): A WIP collection of Unreal Engine 5 mini-games used to deepen gameplay engineering skills before combining ideas into a larger game project.

## Decisions

- [Decisions](https://davidlevai.com/decisions/): Public decision log showing how technical and product trade-offs are evaluated.
- [AI API or SDK for music search and recommendation](https://davidlevai.com/decisions/ai-api-or-sdk-for-music-search-and-recommendation/): Making it simple to get new themes songs for Hollywood.
- [Multi-role multi-tenant organization system design](https://davidlevai.com/decisions/ai-feature-rollout-guards/): Designing a system that allows multiple roles to manage multiple tenants.

## Writing

- [Writing](https://davidlevai.com/blog/): Writing index. Archived posts are listed in Optional.

## Optional

- [Help](https://davidlevai.com/help/): Navigation and keyboard shortcut reference for the terminal-style interface.
- [RSS](https://davidlevai.com/rss.xml): RSS feed for writing.
- [Search Index](https://davidlevai.com/search-index.json): Machine-readable index of pages, projects, decisions, and writing.
- [MentorCruise Profile](https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/dvidlvai/): External profile for mentoring inquiries.
- [Archived: Glassmorphism with Tailwind CSS Under 60 seconds](https://davidlevai.com/blog/tailwind-glassmorphism/): Quick guide on how to make glass morph components with Tailwind (updated for latest Tailwind version)
- [Archived: Static sites are dead. Long live static sites?](https://davidlevai.com/blog/jamstack/): JAMStack is a revolutionary new way to create blazing fast and secure web applications (PWA) and websites.
- [Archived: Productive Remote Teamwork For Product Teams](https://davidlevai.com/blog/productive-remote-teamwork/): The work culture evolved like 5 years in early 2020. Now, I’ve summarised my experiences working with 10+ remote teams and clients in the last half-decade. How to maintain human contacts, how to be productive, and what tools & apps I recommend for your team to maximize efficiency.