About
Most people building small-business websites aren't engineers.
You notice the first time something actually has to work. A booking form that talks to your calendar, say. Or the site staying up on a Saturday night when it matters most. I write software for a living, so that side of it is the straightforward part for me.
The day job
I'm a software engineer at Adoreal here in Seattle, working mostly in C# and React. I built a production system that transcribes clinical conversations using AI. I've also worked on systems that have to keep running with over 100,000 people on them at once. Adoreal employs me, they're not a client of mine, but it's where I learned most of this.
That job makes you paranoid about things you can't see on launch day. What happens when traffic spikes. What breaks first when something goes wrong. Which parts you'll end up doing by hand every week if you don't automate them now. Those same questions go into these sites, and honestly you'd never notice until the day you need something changed.
What I build on my own time
Outside work I build my own products end to end. Design, code, and everything that comes after launch.
Vivo
An iOS app for finding bars in Seattle on a live map. It is in TestFlight with real users on it now.
Just Juice
A storefront for an online juice shop.
Go check for yourself
Nobody should hire someone off a paragraph they wrote about themselves. My portfolio goes through the projects properly, and the code is public if you want to read it.