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Growing up, my mother always went overboard for the holidays, a tradition I proudly carry on in her memory.
Holiday Cards
I began by creating custom holiday cards for my family and friends. At one point, I launched a holiday card exchange website to connect enthusiasts globally. This platform featured
Charlie is a uniquely designed, fully articulated 3D-printed figure. He features movable legs, knees, paws, head, and tail, all printed as a single piece, eliminating the need for assembly.
A custom T-shirt generator built as my first-semester final project at Harvard. Laravel and MySQL underneath, a p5.js canvas rendering the shirt live as the text changed, and a Zazzle affiliate handoff for printing. The code is still public.
A workshop management system for a college professional development program: registrations, waitlists, attendance, and email reminders. It scored each registrant's likelihood to attend from their own no-show history. Built for one district and used there.
A Raspberry Pi that flashed lights and played music whenever my Fitbit scale showed I had lost weight. A Laravel backend watched the Fitbit API, and when the number dropped it published over MQTT to Python running on the Pi. Built for one person, me.
An installable Laravel package that let an application's own users build their own forms. Field definitions were stored as JSON, so a new form was a new row rather than a migration. It passed 11,000 installs on Packagist and strangers sent pull requests. I stopped maintaining it in 2020.
A scheduler for recurring employee emails and Slack messages, where each contact list was a stored GraphQL query re-run at send time instead of an uploaded spreadsheet. A React and Strapi learning project, published as open source.
My Harvard Extension graduate capstone: a web app for building a course-by-course education plan and publishing it so other students could start from it instead of from a blank catalog. Deployed with real course data, never taken past prototype.