# 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. This file expands the site into a compact context document for inference-time use. It is designed to answer practical questions such as who David works with, what he helps with, how he thinks, and how to start a conversation. ## Site Overview David works at the overlap of product strategy, technical leadership, and hands-on implementation. He is most useful when a team needs senior engineering judgment without heavy process overhead, especially when shipping AI-enabled features and making important product and architecture trade-offs. ## Working With David David is open to work across a few formats: - Full-time product engineering and technical leadership roles - Fractional CTO support for teams shipping under product and technical pressure - Hands-on product engineering focused on shipping early, often, and with high quality He also mentors engineers who want stronger product thinking and better use of AI tools in real product work. A useful first outreach message includes product context, main constraints, relevant links, and current priorities. ## Core Pages ### Home URL: https://davidlevai.com/ The homepage positions David as a product engineer and fractional CTO. It points visitors toward the best starting paths: contact, projects, decisions, and writing. ### About URL: https://davidlevai.com/about/ David is a full-stack product engineer with more than a decade of shipping digital products. He works with founders and small teams that want senior technical decision-making without heavy process overhead. ### Contact URL: https://davidlevai.com/contact/ The contact page is the best place to start a work or mentorship conversation. It explains what information makes outreach useful: context, constraints, relevant links, and priorities. ### Now URL: https://davidlevai.com/now/ Current focus includes fractional CTO support for AI-enabled product teams, hands-on product engineering, and improving delivery systems with clearer documentation and release discipline. ### Uses URL: https://davidlevai.com/uses/ Lists daily setup and tools across hardware, dev tools, and stack preferences, with an emphasis on practical product engineering workflows. ### Teaching URL: https://davidlevai.com/teaching/ Mentoring focuses on real projects, plain-language architecture trade-offs, and using AI tools as leverage rather than as a crutch. ## Projects URL: https://davidlevai.com/projects/ ### Black Toast Music URL: 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. Status: active ### Raterflow URL: https://www.tenww.com/ Energy inspection workflow platform, improving field execution, reporting consistency, and internal operational throughput. Status: active ### Developer Digital Garden URL: 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. Status: active ### ShouldIBuy URL: 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. Status: wip ### AI Git Workflow Assistant URL: https://davidlevai.com/projects/ An in-progress assistant for teams shipping with AI that reduces pull request noise, review overhead, and release coordination friction. Status: wip ### Unreal Engine Mini Games URL: 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. Status: wip ## Decisions URL: https://davidlevai.com/decisions/ ### AI API or SDK for music search and recommendation URL: https://davidlevai.com/decisions/ai-api-or-sdk-for-music-search-and-recommendation/ Making it simple to get new themes songs for Hollywood. Published: 2026-03-08 ### Multi-role multi-tenant organization system design URL: https://davidlevai.com/decisions/ai-feature-rollout-guards/ Designing a system that allows multiple roles to manage multiple tenants. Published: 2026-03-01 ## Writing URL: https://davidlevai.com/blog/ ### Glassmorphism with Tailwind CSS Under 60 seconds URL: https://davidlevai.com/blog/tailwind-glassmorphism/ Quick guide on how to make glass morph components with Tailwind (updated for latest Tailwind version) Published: 2020-12-17 Updated: 2021-05-23 Status: archived ### Static sites are dead. Long live static sites? URL: https://davidlevai.com/blog/jamstack/ JAMStack is a revolutionary new way to create blazing fast and secure web applications (PWA) and websites. Published: 2020-10-19 Updated: 2021-05-18 Status: archived ### Productive Remote Teamwork For Product Teams URL: 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. Published: 2020-03-16 Updated: 2021-08-29 Status: archived ## Best Next Step If the question is whether David is a fit for a role or collaboration: 1. Read About (https://davidlevai.com/about/) 2. Review Projects (https://davidlevai.com/projects/) 3. Skim Decisions (https://davidlevai.com/decisions/) 4. Start a conversation from Contact (https://davidlevai.com/contact/)