Gavin, wtf.
I'm working on building this place out more to be a place to get updates on what I'm doing. I'm not a fan of posting to social media, so I'm trying to write here more. honestly doing a poor job at it
I started my software development journey by getting an Associates Degree in Web Development from Truckee Meadows Community College. While there I worked on the web team, mainly content management, but also some PHP making it easier for faculty to update the college website.
I've worked at some amazing companies like SensorTower and GoDaddy/Re:Amaze as a Full Stack Developer.
I'm now at Ridgeline as a senior software developer working to help financial institutions more easily create value for their clients. Working on the Client Engagement team, helping our customers do better work for their clients.
Blog
Some words about my projects, development experiences, and other topics that interest me.
- Laws of development - The rules I carry with me now govern a computer too
- Idea Check - A framework for having coding agents check your ideas
- Revisiting deploying Rails apps - Render is expensive for my pet projects
- Repo-conditioned code prediction with local Markov models - LLMs are out LMMs are in
- How I build projects using AI - How I develop and deploy Rails based applications to Render with the help of AI
- Building Elaro: Turning Short-Form Videos Into Something You Can Actually Use - How I turn chaotic short-form videos into structured, searchable content
- Stock Predictions with Agents - How I built an aggressive stock trading agent
- Building Spectre: A CLI Coding Agent - How I built a local AI coding assistant
- Vector Databases for AI: Building Context-Aware Chatbots - My experience with cloud and self-hosted vector databases
Projects
Some things I've built that I'm proud of. Some of them are dead now though
- Minnas -- This ends up being a different project every month, no clue what it is right now.
- Metner -- Storefronts designed for the side-hustler selling locally.
- Elaro -- A mobile app to help people collect things and actually use what they save this costs so much money, please don't use it
- Spectre -- A CLI Coding Agent designed to run on home AI servers with llama.cpp there's way better options out there
- Cool QL Cool -- A web scraping server using GraphQL.
- Wordtcha Game - Stop bots from accessing your site via Wordle challenges
- s'More -- Electron app to write stories on the Medium platform.
- Volume (no longer working) -- An app and website to listen to curated list of Medium articles.
- Blade -- A better way to manage Gmail Signatures
- Templates for Gmail -- A smarter way to manage Gmail templates.