Projects

I still have the itch to build.

I lead teams for a living. Building is my hobby, and it keeps my technical judgment current. When a board discussion turns technical, I speak from recent hands-on work. These are the projects I build on weekends.

Built with AI

Current projects

Current work, built with AI in the toolchain.

This Site

Portfolio 2.0. Next.js on Lambda with ISR, an MDX blog with interactive elements, and a two-stage CI/CD pipeline.

nextjsawsserverless

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Ziggy

A home AI assistant with a brain-inspired architecture: routed reasoning, graph memory, and MCP tool control.

pythonfastapineo4j

GroundNet

A gamified AI alignment experiment that turns agentic misalignment research into an interactive trolley problem.

nextjstypescriptanthropic

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k3s Homelab

A five-node Kubernetes cluster with GitOps, SSO, zero-trust networking, and full observability.

kubernetesargocdcilium

The pre-AI archive

Things I built by hand

Everything below predates AI-assisted development. A CPU on breadboards, a neural network library from scratch, games, robots, and tools. They stay here because they show how I learn: pick something hard, build it, ship it.