Windward Line · Sheet 1 of 1
Software Engineer
I build things that help people get somewhere they haven't been. Seven projects in three months — six of them running in production right now, on real domains, with real users' data behind row-level security.
Plotted in order of departure
Read it top to bottom, first commit to last. The sequence is the point — each project picked up something the one before it was missing.
2026-05 → 2026-07
Course project
A menswear guide for men who were never taught the basics — written for interviews, first office jobs, and showing up with dignity. Built deliberately as a single zero-dependency file so a live demo could never fail on a missing asset.
18 commits · single-file build · validated markup in CI
Major light
2026-06 → ongoing
Production
A disciplined market-review platform: chart analysis, structured trade review, and limit-order setup generation. Every table is user-owned and locked behind row-level security; the analyzer runs as a Supabase Edge Function so market keys never reach the browser. The longest-running project here, and the one I keep returning to.
106 commits · 11 test files · RLS on every user table, verified fail-closed
2026-06 → 2026-07
Course project
A jetlag visualiser that plots your body clock against the destination's, so you can see exactly when to sleep on the plane. Five-day solo sprint, built test-first — the temporal engine has a documented red-green-refactor history, because time zones punish guessing. Includes a retrieval-augmented travel coach that falls back to lexical search when no model key is present.
143 commits · 183 tests across 40 files
2026-07 → ongoing
Production
Converts D&D Beyond character PDFs into Roll20 imports. The interesting part is the failure case: those PDFs store every value as a widget annotation with no AcroForm catalog, so ordinary form APIs read them as empty. Mimic walks the annotations directly, and when a file has been flattened it falls back to mapping loose text back onto the template's field rectangles by geometry.
No OCR · no scraping · 56 tests
2026-07
Course project
Margin recovery for electrical and HVAC subcontractors. Field crews file a two-minute report; an automation turns it into a professional change request and emails the PM before extra work quietly becomes free work. The generator falls back to a deterministic template if the model is unavailable, so a demo never dies on an API outage.
Deterministic fallback path · 19 tests
2026-07 → ongoing
Production
Builds and continuously updates a person's reentry route — what comes next, why it comes next, and what it unlocks. One rule holds the whole system together: only confirmed facts may affect routing. The route engine is the sole sequencing authority, so the product can never quietly guess about someone's life.
6 CI workflows · CodeQL, secret scan, OSV dependency scan, license policy, production health, recovery drill
2026-07 → ongoing
Private repository
A software consultancy that employs formerly incarcerated engineers. The repository isn't an application — it's the company itself in document form: strategy, process, financial assumptions and decisions, all version-controlled and reviewed like source. Private, because it holds real business material.
Documentation is source code · decisions are architecture
Source private by design
How to read this chart
Not everything here is the same kind of thing, and a chart that hides that is worse than no chart. Each waypoint above carries the mark that matches its row here.
main. — LevelFlow Cloud, Mimic, PathfinderWhat's aboard
One stack, used deliberately, across every project. I'd rather go deep on a small set of tools than collect logos.
Bearing
This is my third career. The first two taught me what the third is for.
I was a consultant at Gartner, advising on technology strategy. Then I was a commissioned officer in the United States Navy, serving in Information Warfare as an Information Professional Officer — the community responsible for the networks, communications, and information systems a fleet actually runs on. Both jobs were the same job underneath: understand a system well enough to be trusted with it when it matters.
I'm also a formerly incarcerated engineer. That fact shows up in the work rather than around it: Pathfinder exists because leaving prison is a routing problem nobody has bothered to solve properly. Proper Form has a persona named Raymond who is preparing for his first interview in years. Refactored is a consultancy staffed by engineers with records, built on one principle — mission follows mastery. The mission only earns its place if the craft holds up first.
So the craft is the part I sweat. Row-level security on every user table before there was a single user. Test-first on the temporal engine because time zones punish confidence. A deterministic fallback in That's Extra because a demo that depends on someone else's uptime isn't a demo. Six CI workflows on Pathfinder — including a recovery drill — because a product about someone's reentry cannot be the thing that fails them.
I'm early in shipping software and I know exactly how much I don't know yet. What I can tell you is that everything on this chart is real, every link resolves, and I can walk you through any decision on it — including the ones I'd make differently now.
Hail
Open to engineering roles, and happy to talk through any of this — including the parts I'd build differently now.