Full-stack software engineer in North Carolina.
I ship web, mobile, backend, and the infrastructure underneath all three.
For startups by day, and for the sheer joy of it the rest of the time.

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• Fressh: A real terminal in your pocket. A mobile SSH client that embeds the actual Alacritty terminal (its VT engine and GPU renderer) inside React Native. No WebView impersonating a terminal; the real thing on iOS and Android, driven by a single Rust core.  Rust React Native Alacritty russh · source
• Elden Ring Compass: Save-file forensics for the Lands Between. Parses Elden Ring saves entirely in your browser into completion stats, checklists, and an interactive world map. Nothing touches a server.  TypeScript React 19 Effect-ts Leaflet · source
• Clanker: Any LLM + TTS behind the OpenAI Realtime API. A self-hostable realtime voice gateway and group-conversation AI that listens, decides when to chime in, and answers out loud.  Effect-ts Bun Discord.js · open-source soon
• Dwarkesh Context Window: An AI third guest for my favorite podcast. Frontier LLMs read full transcripts and write the follow-up questions they wish had been asked.  TanStack Start Whisper · source

_{More on my site, plus the stuff that lives in private repos (a single-flake NixOS config for every machine I own, and a Kubernetes homelab managed as type-safe IaC).}

• Lead Software Engineer @ Listening.com: joined as the 3rd hire; now own the stack end to end for a TTS platform that turns research papers into audio. Cut server costs 10×+ while serving 20k+ hours of generated audio a month.
• Backend Engineer (part-time) @ Bender Games: backend APIs and infra for Sage, an Unreal Engine 5 title on Steam.

_{Six years shipping at early-stage startups · B.S. Computer Science (Security track) from NC State · Park Scholar, graduated a year early.}

TypeScript · React / React Native · Effect-ts · Rust · Flutter · Kubernetes · NixOS · AWS

_{Every commit I've ever pushed, as one rising line via commit-history.com. I grabbed a screenshot at ~#436 worldwide the day it went viral; a gameable number, but I'll take it before the bots arrive. 🚩}