Work & Projects

A smart mirror built with a Raspberry Pi running MagicMirror² software behind a two-way mirror. Displays weather, calendar, news, and Home Assistant integrations. Still running in my house today.

DIY smart light panels inspired by Nanoleaf, built with 3D-printed housings, WS2812B LED strips, and an ESP8266. Controllable via MQTT and Home Assistant. A fun weekend project that turned into a deep dive into embedded systems.

Custom 3D-printed planter insert designed in Fusion 360 for a recycled postcard rack. Printed on my Prusa MK3. A fun exercise in turning digital design into a real-world object.

A real-time Spotify player built with React. My most starred open source project. Integrates with the Spotify Web API for custom playback. Accompanied a popular tutorial.

Does your favorite film pass the Bechdel Test? Uses NLP to parse movie scripts and analyze gender representation in dialogue. Includes a custom scraper to pull scripts from IMSDB by genre or title. Featured in multiple publications and conference talks.

A digital humanities project exploring performativity in cinema. Inspired by Joseph Cornell's 1936 found footage film. Analyzes and visualizes narrative structure in film scripts.

An interactive art installation where audience members draw on a shared digital canvas that displays their creations in real-time on a physical RGB LED grid. Uses MongoDB Realm for instant cross-client data sync.

Common data structures and algorithms implemented in JavaScript. Created as teaching material when I was an instructor at DevLeague. Covers linked lists, trees, graphs, sorting, and more.

Every way a client and server communicate - HTTP, WebSockets, SSE, GraphQL, gRPC, and more. A complete reference guide with examples.

Generates unique Sudoku boards across 4 difficulty levels with a built-in solver using backtracking.

A production subtitle generation pipeline using GPU-accelerated Whisper (faster-whisper) with NVIDIA CUDA. Features parallel workers, automatic language detection and translation, VRAM-aware scheduling, and time-of-day worker scaling to share GPU resources across services.

A from-scratch Python implementation of MikroTik's proprietary binary API protocol. Handles variable-length encoding, authentication, and sentence-based messaging for programmatic control of network infrastructure - bonding, DHCP, firewall rules, and more.

A 2-node Proxmox cluster running 30+ LXC containers and VMs. Self-hosted services include Plex, Home Assistant, Frigate NVR, Grafana, and more. 20Gbps LACP backbone. I wrote the guide.

Replaced Alexa with Home Assistant Voice. Local speech processing via Wyoming Whisper on GPU. Zigbee devices, Frigate camera AI, and zero cloud dependencies.