Aviation × applied AI · building in Seattle, WA
Applied AI engineer · Aviation & flight simulation
Applied AI engineer with 8+ years in aviation and flight simulation. I ship production software with AI agents and own the architecture, review and testing that keep it running.
01 Selected work
Each of these was built by me directing AI coding agents, with the design, review and test suites done by hand.
Internal tool: no screenshots of real data.
I'm the sole developer of the inventory, procurement, work-order and budget system a 40-person simulator maintenance team runs on. It replaced MS Access and GigaTrak, and it links 6,000+ simulator schematics to live stock.
Decodes and builds data words (BNR, BCD, ISO-5 text, parity, bit-order detection) against a label database compiled from cited OEM manuals. It can also read words off a photo of an analyzer screen, on the device.
A monitor behind two-way acrylic, run by a zero-dependency Python server and a browser UI in a self-starting Chromium kiosk. Weather, calendar, news and household notes posted from phones by QR code, with live push. It greets whoever's home by pinging their phones on Wi-Fi, so nothing leaves the LAN, and a PIR sensor wakes the screen.
Cached, stale-on-failure proxying so it never goes blank. Easter eggs: a MIRROR-OS boot, katakana rain when it's actually raining, and a fake netrunner intrusion. Also ships as a Windows Rainmeter HUD and Win11 theme.
Paste a link, share a screenshot or a caption, and get a clean recipe with no life story attached, plus a weekly plan and a shopping list sorted by aisle. I wrote the native Swift plugin for Apple Vision OCR, iCloud sync and the share extension.
Live position sync, chat, trading and duels over hibernating WebSockets on Cloudflare Durable Objects, with a player-to-player market stored in D1. About 11k lines.
02 More things I've shipped
Make a printable boarding pass that reveals a surprise trip. Paid tier through Stripe checkout.
surprisepass.pages.dev
A one-thumb daily landing game. Fly the approach, follow the PAPI, flare, and grease it.
Play butter
Sweep a metal detector over the sand, listen for the beep, and dig. Synthesized audio, no samples.
Play beepbeach
Snap a receipt, tap who had what, and send everyone their exact share with tax and tip.
Open halfsies03 How I work
My workflow, in concrete terms.
I split work into scoped tasks and run several Claude Code agents in parallel: one on a data migration, one on tests, one on UI. Then I review and integrate what they hand back, the way a tech lead would.
I decide the data model, the boundaries and what ships. I read the diffs. When something breaks in production, it's my problem, and I can debug it without the agent.
Every project has automated suites and a gate that only ratchets up: 340+ checks on PAR, including headless-browser end-to-end tests on a CDP driver I wrote, and 267 on Crumb. On PAR, agents work on scrubbed database copies, never live records.
A personal "factory" uses the Anthropic API to score product ideas, draft store listings and summarize reviews, so my build time goes into the product itself.
04 Experience
05 Browser experiments
Small things I built to try out new-tab pages, Web Audio and in-page reading tools.
A retro desktop as a new-tab page, with draggable windows, a Start menu, a taskbar and small built-in games.
A music visualizer for a tab's audio: spectrum bars, an oscilloscope and more, built on Web Audio.
A Web 1.0 homepage for every new tab: hit counter, guestbook, cool links and themes.
A reading companion for AO3 with reader themes, mute filters, highlights and EPUB export.