OPEN TO SOFTWARE ROLES · GREATER SEATTLE, WA
Software engineer working the whole signal chain: from hand-written C++ DSP on the audio thread to the web apps that control it.
Audio DSP + Creative UI
A Juno-inspired polyphonic synthesizer plugin in C++20/JUCE with entirely hand-written DSP — PolyBLEP anti-aliased oscillators, a state-variable filter, bucket-brigade delay, and a 16-line FDN reverb. Drag any LFO or envelope onto any knob to route it, with live connector lines drawing the whole modulation graph. Real-time-safe by construction; ships as AU, VST3, AUv3, and CLAP.
Embedded Real-Time Audio · My Live Rig in Progress
A C++17 multi-effect guitar pedalboard on a Raspberry Pi 5 — the rig I'm building to perform through live, nearly complete. One binary runs 30+ JUCE effects plus real-time neural amp modeling, an on-device LVGL UI, and a phone-friendly Svelte control surface synced over Server-Sent Events. The audio thread never takes a lock: chain edits publish through epoch-based RCU, so effects reorder mid-performance without a click.
C++ Library + Hardware Drivers
A JUCE-free C++17 hardware abstraction layer extracted from the pedalboard: rotary encoders, footswitches, NeoPixel LEDs, an LVGL display, and a realtime ALSA duplex audio loop behind clean headers — the board object owns the shared SPI mutex so consumers can never corrupt the bus. The same headers are backed by a full macOS simulator, so an entire pedal app can be developed with no Pi attached.
Browser Synth · Built for My Students
A browser-based 8-bit sound-effects generator built so my coding students’ games wouldn’t be silent. A dual-oscillator Tone.js engine with curated presets, a smart randomizer, and one-click WAV export through a custom encoder — plus an AI prompt bar that turns “a sad laser powering down” into synth parameters via the Claude API behind a rate-limited Cloudflare Worker.
Agentic AI Engineering
An AI desktop learning platform that turns a short interview into a complete personalized course — lessons, multi-file coding exercises, and quizzes — with a context-aware tutor beside every module. Built on a custom multi-agent framework with a bounded tool-use loop and a four-level hierarchical context model, in Electron + React 19 + strict TypeScript.
OS-Level Enforcement
An Android self-control app enforced at the OS level through Device Owner APIs — the same layer as enterprise MDM — so blocks survive any attempt to uninstall the app. Scheduled blocks with overnight windows, commitment locks that can tighten but never loosen, and website rules pushed into Chrome via managed configurations. Kotlin 2.0, Jetpack Compose, Room, Hilt.
Adversarial Systems Design
A tamper-resistant website and app blocker for Linux that treats “future me trying to cheat” as the adversary: a Python/FastAPI daemon defended by a self-healing mesh of watchdog processes, NTP-verified time locks that defeat clock tampering, and a heartbeat-tracked browser extension — any browser that stops reporting gets closed. Managed from a React + TypeScript GUI; fails closed on any error.
Automation With Real Users
A macOS desktop app that turns a list of Bible references into presentation-ready PDF slides in seconds, replacing a weekly manual copy-paste job — still used every week by the church I built it for. Passages are scraped and cleaned, split across slides at sentence boundaries, rendered with Pillow, and shipped as a self-contained .app with a headless CLI.
You're Looking at It
This site — designed and built from scratch with Astro, Svelte 5, and Sass. Static-first with islands of interactivity like the project filter above, and a design system borrowed from the hardware I build: signal-chain sections, silkscreen labels, and one amber LED too many.
My love of technology started with Logic Pro when I was 16. I've always been creative, but recording and mixing my own music is where I discovered I also loved engineering, and I learned programming largely hoping to someday build the kind of music software I was so passionate about using. Now I build a bit of everything: a synthesizer plugin where I wrote all the DSP myself, a Raspberry Pi pedalboard I'm building as my live rig, and the TypeScript web apps, Python tools, and AI agents that make things like that usable by actual people.
I'm mostly self-taught, but not entirely: since the day I started learning programming four years ago, I've met every other week with a senior software architect. He tells me what I should learn next and I go do that. Along the way I've taught programming to over 50 students, led a student team contributing to a production codebase, and built tools that people still use every week even though I've moved on. Thousands of hours in, I just really love building things. I'm the type of person who doesn't want to go to sleep until the bug is solved.
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