About
baseline. self-taught by breaking things and following the sparks.
currently at openclip, fighting NVENC b-frames and patching production at 3am.
also building tonr, an AI music platform for video creators. solo, mostly because nobody else would.
most days it's code, gym, guitar, repeat. most of what i ship earns nothing. that's fine.
Skills
Technologies I work with
Check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
Reverse-engineered Google Gemini's image watermark algorithm and shipped a fully browser-based removal tool using NCC detection and per-pixel alpha estimation. No server, no uploads. Open source (MIT) with Polar licensing for the Pro tier.
Legal PDF reader. Drop in an NDA, lease, or privacy policy. GPT-4o-mini returns a plain-English summary, flags the clauses worth worrying about, and answers follow-ups in a chat. Anthropic is the fallback when OpenAI rate-limits.
Telegram bot. Paste a YouTube URL, get back the video trimmed to your timestamps at 144p to 4K, or converted to MP3. BullMQ and Postgres run the job queue. yt-dlp does the downloads.
Dashboard watching Xandeum's pNode network. Scores each node by uptime, version lag, and flapping. 24-hour health trends and a world map of node locations. Grant competition submission.
Contributing to the community
I believe in giving back. Here are some open source projects I'm actively contributing to.
2 merged PRs to Mail-0/Zero, an open source privacy-focused email client: light-mode email visibility fix (#1994) and button cursor UX improvements (#1993).
Contributing to Rocket.Chat core. Open PRs under review. Drafted Google Summer of Code 2026 proposals for the Apps Engine Test Framework and a Personal Calendar UI.