Inventor · Software Engineer · Founder
I’m Nathan Jobrayan — an inventor and software engineer. I’m building codmir, an AI development platform of 70+ services where fleets of autonomous agents plan, write, review and ship production software.
The story
I didn’t start in software. I started behind a mixing desk, running sound for live television — X-Factor, The Voice, and a few hundred nights where a single missed cue was broadcast to everyone watching. Live production teaches you something no tutorial does: the show does not stop for you. You build a system that holds, or you get found out in real time.
That instinct carried straight into software. I came in through testing — the part of the industry everyone treats as a stepping stone — and found it was the best seat in the building. Testers see where things actually break. I spent years at Applause, Ubertesters and Smule learning exactly how production software fails, and then got tired of finding the same failures by hand.
So I automated it. Playwright suites, CI pipelines, visual feedback hooks that told you what broke before you asked. Somewhere in there the job changed shape: I wasn’t testing the product any more, I was building the machinery that tested it. That’s the moment the rest of my career turned on — the realization that the highest-leverage thing you can build is a system that does the work for you.
I’ve been chasing that idea ever since. First Vision One, a technical recruiting practice I ran through the pandemic — two years of matching engineers to teams by hand. Then Jobrain, which was me getting tired of doing that by hand and building the ML platform to do it instead. Same lesson twice: the bottleneck is almost never the code. It’s the number of things one person can hold in their head at once.
Which is what codmir is for. It’s an AI development platform — 70+ services spanning agent orchestration, cloud workstations, real-time collaboration and an IDE — built on one premise: a single engineer with a clear enough vision should be able to direct a fleet of autonomous agents the way a director runs a production. Not autocomplete. Agents that plan, write, review and ship, and keep working after you close the laptop.
I build systems that build themselves. That’s the whole thing, really.
What I've built
Three ventures, one idea: give a single person the leverage of a team.
Founder & Software Engineer
An AI development platform where autonomous agents plan, write, review and ship production software.
Founder
An ML-backed platform matching people to work, and employers to the people they actually needed.
Founder
A technical recruiting practice built through the pandemic, placing engineers with employers across the country.
Writing
Notes on agents, orchestration, and building software that builds itself.
Why I think the ceiling on what one engineer can build is about to move, and what actually has to be true for that to happen.
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codmir is a monorepo of more than seventy services. Here's what running that alone has actually taught me — mostly that scale is a people problem wearing an architecture costume.
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Software testing is treated as the entry-level door into engineering. I think it's the best seat in the building, and I'd argue it made me a better engineer than a CS degree would have.
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A timeline of my professional journey and experience.
Jobrain
Mountain View, CA, USA
Vision One
California, USA
Practical SQA
Los Altos, CA, USA
Smule, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Ubertesters
Remote
Applause
Remote
Art Center Pro (with X-Factor/Voice TV)
Remote
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