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Things I've built, and what each one taught me

Production defense software I can only describe in outline, research projects with the numbers attached, and side projects I built because something annoyed me. Sorted by how much I want you to read them.

Launch Wordlet
Professional2021 — present

A processor built from the ground up

Kernel, task scheduler and communication protocol written from nothing, in C and Ada, now in production and distributed globally.

In production. Globally distributed.
CAdaRTOSBare metal
Capstone2021

Sign Language Interpretation System

Control any smart device with American Sign Language — hand tracking, a gesture classifier and grammar correction, wired together over a client-server link.

98.8% accuracy across 14 hand gestures
PythonTensorFlowComputer visionCNN
Research2025

Patient Care Portal Triage

An NLP pipeline that routes patient portal messages to the right team and surfaces relevant evidence-based research while they wait for a human.

Classifies sentence embeddings into care teams, then retrieves supporting research
PyTorchEmbeddingGemmaNLPInformation retrieval
Personal2023 — present

Bindersnap

GitHub for everyone who doesn't use GitHub — document management, review lifecycle, team collaboration, search and an in-browser editor.

Started because my wife complained about her company's policy platform
GoVueAWSSQL
Professional2023

A system library that runs anywhere

One portable C++ library targeting any RTOS or bare-metal system, packaged with Docker, Bazel and GitLab CI — cutting porting work by 4×.

4× fewer engineering hours spent on porting
C++BazelDockerGitLab CI
Personal2024
Playable

Wordlet

A word guessing game built in Flutter and compiled to the web — playable right here, no install, no account.

Play it in the browser in about two seconds
DartFlutterWeb
School2020

Handwritten digit recognition with weighted KNN

A KNN classifier for handwritten digits, plus a k-value optimizer that collapses repeated distance calculations into a single pass.

Optimizes k without recomputing distances per candidate
PythonKNNOptimization
School2020

ID3 mushroom classification

A from-scratch ID3 decision tree that predicts whether a mushroom is edible or poisonous from its attributes.

PythonDecision treesInformation gain
Personal2026

This website

A static site built with Astro, hosted free on GitHub Pages, designed so writing a post costs one markdown file and nothing else.

Zero JavaScript on most pages
AstroTypeScriptTailwindGitHub Pages

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A processor built from the ground up

Kernel, task scheduler and communication protocol written from nothing, in C and Ada, now in production and distributed globally.

Professional

Sign Language Interpretation System

Control any smart device with American Sign Language — hand tracking, a gesture classifier and grammar correction, wired together over a client-server link.

Capstone

A system library that runs anywhere

One portable C++ library targeting any RTOS or bare-metal system, packaged with Docker, Bazel and GitLab CI — cutting porting work by 4×.

Professional

Patient Care Portal Triage

An NLP pipeline that routes patient portal messages to the right team and surfaces relevant evidence-based research while they wait for a human.

Research

Bindersnap

GitHub for everyone who doesn't use GitHub — document management, review lifecycle, team collaboration, search and an in-browser editor.

Personal

Wordlet

A word guessing game built in Flutter and compiled to the web — playable right here, no install, no account.

Personal

Reinforcement Learning applied to Tetris

An agent that learns to play Tetris — a genuinely fun excuse to get hands-on with reward shaping.

School

Handwritten digit recognition with weighted KNN

A KNN classifier for handwritten digits, plus a k-value optimizer that collapses repeated distance calculations into a single pass.

School

ID3 mushroom classification

A from-scratch ID3 decision tree that predicts whether a mushroom is edible or poisonous from its attributes.

School

Healthcare length-of-stay estimator

A data mining project predicting how long a patient will stay, from admission-time features.

School

This website

A static site built with Astro, hosted free on GitHub Pages, designed so writing a post costs one markdown file and nothing else.

Personal

I rebuilt this site so that publishing costs one file

The old site was a single 41,000-character index.html. Every change was archaeology. Here is what I replaced it with and why the constraint was maintenance, not design.

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