Tim Kleier

Software Architect, Engineer, and Systems Thinker

I have experience across various web stacks and mobile development, tackling all aspects of software development in working with startups, enterprises, small businesses, and government agencies. I love creating valuable products and making software teams more effective.

I'm also an avid runner, family man, and dad joke enthusiast.

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Model Context Protocol: The AI Integration Layer for Modern Business

This four-part series explores how Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridges the gap between large language models (LLMs) and real-world systems. If you’re building with AI—or just trying to make your software more intelligent—MCP offers a lightweight, standards-based way to expose your existing tools and APIs to natural language interfaces.

Product Definition: A Critical Missing Piece in Software Development

This talk at the Fort Collins Internet Pros Meetup discusses the importance of Product Definition in bridging the gap between Discovery and Development. It emphasizes the need for a clear and shared understanding of the product vision, goals, and requirements among all stakeholders involved in the software development process. Distilling that shared understanding into a single, portable specification allows us to distribute DNA to all of our systems.

Full Stack Application Development with GenAI

GenAI tools are rapidly maturing, but is it possible to leverage those tools to generate working full stack applications? In this presentation at the Fort Collins Internet Pros Meetup, we attempted to generate a basic blog application entirely through prompts and generative AI tools. Then we discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the current maturity level of these tools as well as paradigm shifts in applying GenAI.