About

What I do

I came up in the hand-coded era of the web. For years I wrote everything myself, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL, one careful line at a time. It was slow work, and it was the best teacher I could have asked for. You come to understand how the web really fits together when you have built every piece of it by hand, why it breaks, and what good actually feels like.

These days I build differently. I'm an AI-first product engineer, and I lean on modern tools like Claude Code to bring immersive web experiences to life, the kind you can step into and explore. The fundamentals haven't gone anywhere. They're what let me steer, and what let me catch the confident answer that's quietly wrong. But AI amplifies human creativity and ability like no technology before it. It has changed what a single person can imagine and ship, and it keeps the focus where it belongs, on the ideas and the craft instead of the boilerplate.

Highlights

• Engineering

  Full-stack work built on hand-coded fundamentals and accelerated with modern AI, always with an eye on performance and security.

• 3D & interactive

  Immersive browser-based 3D with Three.js, faster to build with AI in the loop, like the walkable 3D version of this very site.

• Product thinking

  Shipping the right thing, not just the thing. AI handles more of the build, so I can spend my time on the judgment that decides what good looks like.

Timeline

1. 2026

   Started using Codex, Drizzle ORM, Playwright, Supabase (PostgreSQL), Turborepo, and Vercel

2. 2025

   Started using Claude Code, Next.js, NGINX, Redis, and Three.js

3. 2024

   Started experimenting with LLM development tools and prompt engineering

4. 2022

   Was writing mostly backend TypeScript in a Microservice environment

5. 2021

   Did a lot of localization work, mostly in TypeScript

6. 2020

   Started using Jest, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microservices

7. 2019

   Started using AWS, Docker, GCP / Firebase, ReactJS, and Selenium (MERN-stack)

8. 2018

   Started using Angular 2.x, Material UI, Node.js, and TypeScript (MEAN-stack)

9. 2016

   Developed a lot of REST backends (PHP) and rich HTML5 frontends

10. 2015

    Started using MongoDB / NoSQL and AngularJS

11. 2014

    Started writing unit tests (PHPUnit) and using CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)

12. 2013

    Did a lot of ETL automation work (cron + PHP / Python scripts + MySQL)

13. 2012

    Started using Bootstrap on the frontend and still mostly PHP + MySQL on the backend

14. 2011

    Started using Git and Memcache

15. 2010

    Built a lot of sites with Wordpress and a few with Django

16. 2009

    Wrote my first Python script and started using jQuery

17. 2008

    Started writing ETL automation scripts (cron + PHP scripts + MySQL)

18. 2007

    Worked at my first online start-up (now defunct)

19. 2006

    Learned general Linux server administration

20. 2005

    Started building full-stack web applications (LAMP-stack)

21. 2004

    Wrote my first CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL

22. 2003

    Wrote my first HTML