📍 Raleigh, NC | 🚀 Co-Founder & CEO Nutrient (@PSPDFKit) | ⚖️ Lawyer turned builder | 🤖 Aspiring vibe coding god
I left a law career to build software. Best decision I ever made. Now I run Nutrient — the company I co-founded as PSPDFKit back in 2014. We help developers build better document experiences, and our tech powers apps used by nearly a billion people.
These days I'm deep in the AI trenches, building document processing infrastructure for AI agents. I run a fleet of AI agents that handle everything from email to market research while I'm at my kid's birthday parties. The future is weird and I'm here for it.
- 📄 Nutrient DWS MCP Server — MCP server for document processing: convert, OCR, redact, sign, extract, watermark PDFs via natural language
- 🔌 Nutrient Agent Skill — Universal document processing skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 15+ agents
- 🤖 agent-skills — 35+ AI agent skills for OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex
- 🦞 lobster-workflows — Deterministic workflow templates for OpenClaw with approval gates and state tracking
- 📝 nudocs — AI-powered document editing and collaboration
- 🎨 volks-typo — Astro blog theme exploring Bauhaus modernism and WW2-era typography
- 🦞 OpenClaw — Contributing to the personal AI assistant that actually does things
- 🔋 Nutrient (formerly @PSPDFKit) — Co-Founder & CEO. Document SDKs used by millions, backed by Insight Partners. Built from scratch with @steipete in 2011, rebranded to Nutrient in 2024.
- Building document infrastructure for AI agents — MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins that give AI agents real document processing capabilities
- Building in public — Shipping AI tools and sharing what I learn
- Writing — Documenting the journey at jdrhyne.me
- Leading Nutrient — Evolving how humans (and AI agents) experience documents
- Meet Brosef: How AI Learned to Work While I Sleep — Jan 2026
- Building My Website Without Writing Code — Jun 2025
- 🏛️ Forbes Technology Council member
- 🎙️ AiThority Interview on AI and document processing
- 📄 PDF Association member
- 🦞 Featured on openclaw.ai
"Ship beats perfect" — I went from writing legal briefs to shipping code. Turns out both are just about clear communication and solving problems.
- 🎓 NC State undergrad → Campbell Law School → said "nah" to practicing law
- 🤝 Co-founded PSPDFKit with @steipete — still friends, still building
- ☕ Powered by North Carolina coffee and the belief that documents don't have to suck
- 🤖 Currently running 5 AI agents that do real work while I live my life