Software engineer.
I have a B.S. in Software Engineering. I design software before coding it, document it as it grows, and test it against how people actually use it. I work in Rust, Python, TypeScript and C#, and I build with Claude Code.
Selected projects
fman-rs
A Rust rewrite of the fman dual-pane file manager. Opening a 90,000-file folder takes about 0.13 s and 94 MB, against 19.7 s and 438 MB in the original fman, measured on the same machine.
Built from a spec with measured acceptance targets, a tested small-file fast path (copy, move and delete over 100x faster than the original), and native Windows fallbacks for everything else.
Generated demo files; the app is the real build.
Vestige
An audio-first spaced-repetition app that replaces Anki, scheduled with the FSRS algorithm. It builds its own cards in 8 languages by combining Claude, text-to-speech and dictionary data.
Started from a written spec and an interactive mockup. 149 commits.
Llymlaen
A levelling guide for Final Fantasy XIV that keeps checking game state to work out what to do next: the fastest route to experience, the best gear to buy or equip, and why. Includes cross-zone routing and a custom text renderer.
140 commits, 72 C# source files. Built spec-first, with decisions and reversals recorded.
Exploratory
- Redguard port (Rust + Bevy): research and data work toward a from-scratch port of a 1998 game, run from the player's own copy. So far it renders all 27 maps; there is no gameplay simulation yet.
- Nehrim port (Rust + Bevy): an earlier attempt at the same idea, now paused. It produced the lessons that changed how I scope projects.
Earlier open-source work (2019–2023)
- japReader: creator of an Electron app for reading Japanese games with real-time lookup. 112 GitHub stars; now maintained by someone else.
- wiktionary-to-yomitan (formerly kaikki-to-yomitan; 203 stars): wrote the original dictionary-conversion scripts from yomichan-es that it grew out of, then contributed Russian support and nested-definition handling. Since rewritten in Rust by another developer.
- Yomichan language forks (German, French, Russian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian): ~96 stars combined.