Projects

Designing and building sites, tools and apps since I was a kid

AI Apps

Building AI applications end to end, from agentic pipelines to the UX

2026 App

Tally Split AI

I built an AI app that turns a hand-annotated receipt into a fair split. Underneath the simple idea: a multi-layer LLM pipeline, computer vision for the handwriting, and a custom HMAC security model.

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2026 App

AKS Architect AI

An AI advisor for designing Azure Kubernetes clusters. It blends official Well-Architected best practices and Microsoft docs with guidance personalized to your requirements. I aimed to digitize the version of me that only Microsoft's enterprise clients had access to.

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Tools

Building beautiful tools to improve the developer experience and workflows

2022 Tool

GitHub Action - Lowercase Linter

GitHub Action to drive file naming consistency for increased productivity across teams.

Challenge

Unix based systems and Windows treat file case sensitivity differently, which can lead to recurring git conflicts and broken deployments.

Solution

Create an GitHub Action to check for kebab-case consistency in filenames and break builds as needed, accelerating consistency and improving productivity.

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2021 Tool

tidy-jsdoc

NPM package for a minimalist and clean jsdoc template

Challenge

Most jsdoc templates at the time were ugly, which limited usability for users and adoption of code documentation for authors.

Solution

Create an template with clear visual and information hierarchies to increase developer productivty.

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2022 Tool

Azure Checklists - Transform Checklists JSON to Markdown

Scripts to convert Azure/review-checklists JSON to Markdown frontmatter.

Challenge

The popular Azure Review Checklists source leveraged JSON data, limiting content richness and scalability.

Solution

Create a script to convert the existing JSON (preserving previous efforts) into Markdown for richer content to accelerate customer learning.

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2019 Tool

Newton.js Graph

Cloud Architecture Graphs for Humans

Challenge

Most auto-generated architect graphs rely on technical components, creating lots of visual noise limiting their usefulness.

Solution

Create human friendly graphs to quickly identify bottlenecks that affect business contexts.

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Archived Projects

Highlights from 25+ year career… starting as a web designer

2015 App archived

Antwort - Email Signature Generator App

CLI for automated email development, incl. template generation and inlining CSS

2015 Tool archived

Antwort CLI for E-Mail Generation

CLI for automated email development, incl. template generation and inlining CSS

2013 Website archived

Janus Projekt Website

Small website for Ancestry.de partner acquisition featuring Google Maps integration.

2010 Other archived

Ancestry.de User Onboarding Strategy

We conducted user research and decided to counterintuitively increase the number of steps in our onboarding flow to successfully increase new subscriber conversion rate and revenue.

2010 App archived