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Websites & web apps for people & small businesses·Design through deploy
I design, build, and ship websites — and the apps behind them when a site isn’t enough. Hand-written, quick to load, and yours to own outright. Two client sites are live below, and the games further down are playable right on this page.
About
I build websites and web apps for people and small businesses — design through deploy, hand-written, no page-builder bloat. Behind that: 7+ years as a full-stack engineer in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and an AI-first workflow that lets me learn a new business fast and ship fast without cutting the corners that matter — speed, accessibility, and something you can actually keep updated.
You get one person, start to finish — the first sketch, the copy, the build, the domain, the forms that land in your inbox, and the handoff that leaves you able to change your own words. No agency layers, no template you’ll outgrow, no monthly rent on your own website.
And when you need more than a site — accounts, a database, a booking flow, an admin screen, an integration with something you already run — I build that too. Same person, same hand-written approach, a different size of job. Say so early and I’ll scope it.
Client work
Both are live right now — the green dot means deployed. Yours could be next.
Sports commentator — full rebuild
Rebuilt an Emmy-winning Olympic commentator’s site from scratch on Astro: a reel player that switches video host from one config line, a photo gallery he can refill himself, career credits that read in fifteen seconds, and a booking form straight to his inbox. Sitemap, metadata and IndexNow submission so the producers hiring him actually find it.
Visit the siteBrand site & storefront
Marketing site and store for a community empowering women and girls — in sport and in life — built out from the brand identity they already had: palette, quote-card motif and pamphlet copy carried across intact. Newsletter, product-interest and contact forms wired up, and products flip from “Notify me” to “Buy” with one flag when checkout goes live.
Visit the siteThe workshop
Where the techniques come from. The dashed boxes are playable, right here on the page.
A carrier pigeon for files — it only flies home
Self-hosted file and photo app, built because sftpgo was the wrong tool: one Docker container on a home server, reached over Tailscale, installable on a phone. Devices pair with a short code and are held to one folder. Chunked, resumable uploads that keep a photo’s capture date; a gallery by day; on-box face grouping that never uploads anything; duplicate finding; video remuxed by ffmpeg as it streams. Nothing is ever deleted — only trashed.
Claude Code across every project — inbox to merged PR
Desktop app that runs Claude Code over every project in a folder, on a schedule or on demand. Code review, bug hunts, audits and tasks you write in plain language file their findings into a triage inbox; approve one and it is built in an isolated worktree, pushed, judged by a second agent against the item, and merged from the app. Embedded terminals that survive restarts, a browser the sessions can drive, live previews, on-device dictation, and the whole thing from a phone over Tailscale. This site is maintained through it.
A phone blocker — from bare metal to the app stores
Opt-in self-restriction for adults: a small BLE device locks your most distracting apps while the toilet lid is up; a Bed Foilet is next on the same protocol. Built end to end — embedded C firmware on a TI CC2340R5 with a 5+ year battery budget, custom PCB and enclosure, over-the-air updates, a SwiftUI iOS app on the Screen Time API and its Kotlin Android twin — plus a screen-time layer (pause before opening, daily limits, schedules, leaderboards) that needs no device at all.
AI meal planning, end to end
Full-stack AI app: a React Native/TypeScript client and Node.js + PostgreSQL backend with LLM-driven meal planning behind a provider-agnostic layer. Hybrid retrieval-and-ranking pipeline, evaluation and cost controls, photo → meal logging, and text → image meal previews.
Push-your-luck dice, live with friends
Real-time multiplayer dice game — PIN lobbies, anonymous auth, and optimistic Firestore writes so every roll lands on every screen instantly. Configurable bust rules, doubles, and anonymous banking. Try the pocket version here, then host a real game.
The word game, multiplayer in the browser
Live lobbies, synchronized rounds with a shared board, word challenges, round review and scoring — all on a single Firestore document per game. There are words hiding in this very board: trace adjacent tiles to find one.
Two products, one small team, lead engineer
Led architecture and delivery across a two-product startup effort (2020–2022): integrated Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR API to turn large external data flows into an analytical platform, and built a client-facing marketplace from the ground up. Both products have since been retired.
Experience
Freelance Web Designer & Developer
Software Engineer
Software Lead
Associate Engineer & Technical Support
Skills