Windward Line · Sheet 1 of 1
Design Engineer
I build things that help people get somewhere they haven't been. Five projects in three months, all running in production 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. Themed with design tokens and every asset self-hosted, so a live demo can never fail on someone else's outage.
28 commits · design-token theming · 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.
189 commits · 51 test files · RLS on every user table, verified fail-closed
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
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.
The bench where these are tuned: craft.windwardline.com — interaction studies, lofted before they run.
Bearing
Three careers. One throughline: systems people depend on.
I advised technology strategy at Gartner. Then I was commissioned in the United States Navy as an Information Professional Officer in Information Warfare, accountable for the networks and communications a fleet relies on when nothing else is working. Both roles came down to the same thing: know a system well enough to be trusted with it when being wrong carries a cost.
I am also a formerly incarcerated engineer. That shows up in the work rather than around it. Pathfinder exists because reentry is a routing problem nobody bothered to solve properly. Proper Form was written for a man preparing for his first interview in years.
The craft is where I spend. Row-level security before the first 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 is not a demo. A recovery drill in Pathfinder's CI, because a product about someone's reentry cannot be the thing that fails them.
Everything on this chart is live. Every link resolves. I can defend any decision on it, including the ones I would make differently now.
