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Work Experience

• Freelance Web Developer / Designer, Freelance

  Aug, 2017 - Present

  Independent design and development for startups, small businesses, and self-hosting / sovereign-computing projects. End-to-end delivery: UX, design systems, frontend, backend, database, and infrastructure.

  • Start9 Labs — landing page, marketing site, and supporting tooling

  • GraphicViZion — product websites and blogs

  • Vol Attire — custom static-site web shop

• CTO / Technical Co-founder, FlyLocal

  Jul, 2017 - Aug, 20236 years

  FlyLocal was an early-stage air-travel startup focused on small planes, small airports, and small airlines across North America. As CTO, I owned the technical roadmap and architecture of the MVP — from initial product/UX through to launch, GDS integration, and partner onboarding.

  • Tech lead and architect for an MVP designed to grow audience and unlock partnerships with regional airlines

  • Global Distribution System (GDS) integration

  • Airtable as a flexible operations backend

  • Frontend on Nuxt with custom OpenStreetMap-based route exploration

  • Hands-on across product, engineering, design, and DevOps

• Lead Developer & Webmaster, The Seasteading Institute

  Jan, 2021 - Present

  Volunteer Wordpress support from 2018, then lead developer from 2021. Took over the Wordpress estate, modernised the theme and stack, and ran day-to-day site operations and migrations.

  • Wordpress maintenance, hardening, and theme refresh

  • Server migration and deployment, hosting

  • Custom components

• Full Stack Web Developer, Tech Lead, Designer, Chainbridge Technologies

  May, 2007 - Jul, 201710 years 2 months

  Spent a decade building custom line-of-business applications for high-profile US federal clients (including FEMA and the Department of Energy), supporting tens of thousands of monthly users. I worked across the stack as developer, tech lead, and architect, and moved the team from ASP.NET Web Forms through MVC to a JavaScript front end on Vue.

  • Tech lead and architect on greenfield projects and major rewrites

  • Federal-scale apps for FEMA and Department of Energy

  • Backend: C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, Entity Framework

  • Frontend: Vue.js

  • Data: SQL Server, T-SQL

  • DevOps: Azure, CI/CD, design systems

• Data Acquisitions Analyst, Battelle Memorial Institute

  Jun, 2006 - May, 200711 months

  Database administrator and Crystal Reports developer across three internal applications, supporting Battelle staff and DoD client personnel. Worked in SQL Server, Crystal Reports, HTML, and Visual Basic.

Projects Experience

• Picture Telephone

  - Present

  Anonymous, private, peer-to-peer video calling for two. WebRTC over Trystero — no signalling server, no ads, no Big Tech.

  • WebRTC

  • Trystero P2P

  • Vite

  • IndexedDB / Dexie

  • PWA

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