Hello!
I'm currently a senior software engineer at Block, which acquired Sliderule (fka Modern Logic) where I was the first backend engineering hire in 2021. I also spent around 3 years at Amazon working on ML stuff for Alexa, merchant management for Prime Now (RIP) and some internal HR tools. I joined Amazon initially in 2016, left in 2018 to make mapping software at Unearth Labs (acquired by Procore) and went back in 2020 until leaving again for Sliderule.
Before all of that, I graduated from the University of Arizona with a BS in computer science. I also minored in Africana studies with a concentration in hip-hop cultures which added some variety. While I was in school, I managed a Drupal website for the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry for a couple of years until I got a job as a student software developer at CyVerse (fka iPlant Collaborative). Also made a twin stick shooter called Foo with a friend of mine while we worked at CyVerse.
I spend a good amount of my free time working on Homegames. It's an open source multiplayer game platform I've been working on since 2018. In July 2026, I was finally brave enough to post about it on Hacker News. These days the platform is pretty solid so I focus mostly on making games to play with my kids e.g. Hot Potato.
Other Stuff
Homegames is my main thing outside of work these days, but I occasionally do other stuff for fun
- Yardsailing - an iOS app that lets people easily find active yard sales in their area. Still very much work in progress. My other main side project outside of Homegames
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Winans - NSFW content filtering for external drives
The idea for this was that people die and have photos/videos/files on USB drives and stuff like that, but families don't want to go and filter through stuff they might not want to see. So this tool scans a drive, finds photos and videos, and copies them in one click without you having to see any explicit images.
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Yank - automatically grab drawn images from paper
Generated this one with Claude to improve my game development workflow for Homegames. I like to draw characters/game objects on physical paper and scan them, so I made this tool to automate the "identify things and crop them individually with transparent backgrounds" step
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Spinwheel - prize selection wheel.
Listed this one mostly to mention my wife's bakery, which was the reason this project exists. We used to do local farmers market type things and I had the idea to add a "walk up and hit a button and get a deal/free cookie" type of thing. We set it up on a raspberry pi and a 7 inch external monitor and it was a big hit.
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HAPI - The Happy API
The basic idea for this one was a simple public REST API that would allow people to contribute to a crowdsourced database of positive thoughts. The hope was that websites / applications would integrate with the API and customers of those applications would post short positive messages about a specific category (e.g. food, dogs). Never really took off but I still like the idea. hapi.io is dead, but the code lives on.
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Viper album name generator
Viper was a rapper known for releasing hundreds of albums with absurd names. I thought it'd be fun to create an app that would randomly generate album titles based off of Viper's discography. I released this as a web app hosted on hapi.io/viper for a short time and got a bit of popularity on Reddit from it. GitHub user Noskap created a Twitter bot based off of the generator, so in some way this project made an impact.