Full stack developer. Ten years spent making hard things click for other people. Now I build the tools instead.
Every one started with a problem someone actually described to me, usually a colleague, usually about their own classroom.
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Twenty years of Texas music contest results, in one place for the first time.
Data / DashboardAttendance for large groups, with the reporting that was always missing.
Tooling / AnalyticsA real-time vocal harmoniser that reads the key from your MIDI chords.
Audio / PluginPrivate beta
A dashboard for every Texas Music UIL result since 2005. Filter by school, district, and subject, then drill into per-song scores and advanced statistics through a fuzzy search. The data was scraped, normalized, and warehoused from scratch.
A generative approach to music sightreading practice. Set the constraints (key, range, rhythm, difficulty) and it composes fresh exercises, so students never run out of material or memorize the answers.
A multiplayer trivia challenge with category-based rounds and fast, classroom-friendly gameplay. Built so a teacher can start a game in seconds without setup or accounts.
A suite of ear-training games for classrooms and solo practice, covering intervals, rhythm, solfege, and steady beat. Audio is synthesized in the browser, so it works on any device without downloads.
A friendly 'betting' game for the Academy Awards, pulling live odds and nominee data from several APIs. A Python backend keeps the odds fresh while the frontend handles pools and scoring.
An attendance system built for large groups, with report tracking and analytics. Designed around the actual problem: taking roll for a hundred students has to happen in under a minute, and the data has to be useful afterward.
A Wordle-style daily game for ear training: guess the sequence by listening rather than reading. Same compulsive loop, aimed at a skill musicians actually need.
An online tool for running Super Bowl Squares. Grid setup, claiming, and scoring are handled, so nobody has to maintain a shared spreadsheet on game day.
Two VST3 and AU plugins built on a shared C++ DSP core. Harmelody adds up to four in-key harmony voices, each with its own interval style, level and pan. Harmelody Tune is a standalone autotune with retune speed, flex-tune, formant and natural vibrato. Both take a vocal on an audio track plus chords on a MIDI track and infer the key from those chords, and pitch shifting runs through three interchangeable engines that can be swapped while audio is playing.
I came up through a classroom, which turns out to be unusually good training for this work.
Teaching music in Texas public schools. The job was the same every single day: take something genuinely complicated, and find the version of it that finally clicks for the person in front of you. That skill did not stay behind when I left.
Taking roll for a hundred students took too long. Sightreading exercises ran out. Twenty years of contest results existed, but nobody had ever put them in one place. Each of those became something I built, and then something other teachers depended on.
CS50 for the parts I had been working around rather than understanding. Python and SQL first, because the data problems came first. Then React and TypeScript, because the people using these things deserved a real interface.
Eight are deployed and public. The ninth is a pair of audio plugins in private beta, written in C++, which is where I went once the web stopped being the hard part. Every one of them started with a problem someone actually described to me. I am looking for a full-time engineering role where that instinct is useful.
The number beside each is how many of the nine projects use it. If it is not in one of them, it is not on this list.
University of Texas at San Antonio
Four years of analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and holding a complex system in your head all at once. It turns out that transfers.
Harvard University
Data structures, algorithms, memory, and web development. The fundamentals I had been routing around instead of understanding.
IBM
Agile methodology and the collaboration practices behind modern software teams.
I'm looking for a full-time engineering role. If you have one, or just want to talk about any of the projects above, I'd like to hear from you.