McCoy Didericksen
builds the tools, then goes outside.
Software engineer in Utah. I build AI agents and the tooling around them: the parts that read your systems, do the tedious work, and tell you plainly what they did. I'd rather spend the time that saves on a trail or with a book.
South Jordan, Utah. Remote or along the Wasatch Front.
On the bench
℈ Scruple. We're building margin recovery for independent pharmacies, which lose money a few dollars at a time: claims paid below cost, Medicare refunds that never arrive, wholesaler prices that creep up. Both demos below run on public data or a made-up pharmacy. How it's built
- Live · runs in your browserDrug shortage checkPaste an NDC list, or load a made-up pharmacy. Joins FDA's shortage list, RxNorm and NADAC to show what's short and what the alternatives cost.Open the shortage check
- Sample · a made-up pharmacyMargin boardWhat a check turns up for three stores and 90 days of reports: refunds that never came, claims paid below cost, prices that drifted.Open the board
Projects
- In progressScrupleMargin recovery for independent pharmacies: invoices, remittances and NADAC joined into a dollar figure an owner can act on.Read the case study
- Going public soonbasecamp-mcpAn MCP server and a small agent that plan backcountry trips in Utah: NWS weather, Recreation.gov campgrounds and live site availability, avalanche forecasts. One tool catalog, two consumers, tested against fixtures and the live feeds.
- Internal · write-up comingClaude Code toolchainThe skills, subagents, hooks, and CLI clients my team uses to let agents read and act on Jira, Bitbucket, Sentry, Sidekiq, and Slack, with a fresh-context code reviewer that scores its own confidence.
- Essay in progressAgent cost auditWhere the tokens went across a quarter of AI-assisted development, and what changed once we knew.
- FreelanceCustomer portalScheduling, invoicing, and client messaging for a small business, over a Monday.com integration with single sign-on.
Where I've worked
- 2025 to now
Kadince, software engineerDashboards and search for a compliance platform used by community banks, plus the team's AI developer tooling. Remote.
- 2025
Ping Assistant, founding software engineerProduction AI agents for accounting firms: client communication, documents, meeting notes.
- 2025
Podium, senior AI support engineerMonitoring and bug resolution for a large fleet of production agents.
- 2023 to 2025
Pattern, analytics engineerDynamic pricing, review syndication, and alerting for marketplace brands.
- 2022
Goldman Sachs, business intelligence analystAutomation and reporting for Global Markets controls.
On the nightstand
Currently The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver. Before that, Demon Copperhead. Recommendations welcome, especially anything that reads well by headlamp.