Ex-Amazon · AWS Certified · UCSB Engineering Honors
Full-Stack Software Engineer who ships production software by day and passion projects by night
I'm a full-stack engineer. The workday is production SaaS for airports and airlines; most evenings go to my own ideas. Lately that's a vocal trainer that listens while you sing, an app for memorizing scripture, and the site you're reading right now. If a project needs a tool I've never touched, that's usually why I picked it.
Los Angeles, CA · Open to Remote
Selected work
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A browser-based vocal trainer that listens as you sing and gives honest, real-time pitch and timing feedback. A Rust/WASM engine does the listening, and any song can be imported at zero infrastructure cost.
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The Astro template this very site runs on. One typed config file drives every word of content, it costs $0 to host, and a friend could make it theirs without touching a component.
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An offline-first PWA for memorizing scripture with FSRS spaced repetition, seven graded recall modes, and word-level diff grading. No backend, no accounts, and all data stays on your device.
Career
Apr 2024 – Present
Los Angeles, CA
Jun 2022 – Sep 2022
Alexa org
Sep 2019 – Jun 2023
Santa Barbara, CA
Toolkit
About
Most of what you'll find here started as a question I couldn't let go of. Could a browser detect pitch fast enough to coach someone while they sing? That became AI Music Trainer, and it's why I learned Rust and WebAssembly: the JavaScript version wasn't fast enough. Could an app help people truly memorize scripture instead of just re-reading it? That became Bible Skill Builder, which runs offline with no accounts and no tracking, because an app like that should respect the people using it.
This site is one of those projects too. I built it as a reusable template where everything personal lives in one config file, so a friend can fork it, swap in their own words and photos, and have a site of their own without touching a component. That's how I like to build in general: ship the whole thing, sweat the details people will actually feel, and document it well enough that the next person isn't lost.
The day job keeps me sharp. I'm a full-stack engineer at ProDIGIQ working on production SaaS for the aviation world, and I mentor junior engineers, which is the quickest way to find out whether I really understand something. Before that I studied Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara (Engineering Honors), interned at Amazon on Alexa, and led a HoloLens capstone with NavSea that placed 3rd among engineering senior projects. I picked up my AWS Solutions Architect certification along the way, and there's usually a half-finished experiment on my laptop. That's how I like it.