The work we deliver, in the open. Workshops and talks we run, client engagements we ship, and tools we build — a broad spectrum of engineering.

Each card is colour-coded by the practice it belongs to:

  • Reliability & resilient comms
  • DevOps & tooling
  • Cloud platforms
  • Product engineering
  • AI & retrieval

Client engagements

2026 (ongoing)

Enterprise chatbot

Anonymized. MFA-protected RAG chatbot on GCP: Claude, hybrid pgvector retrieval, Terraform on Cloud Run.

Learn more → Feb – May 2025

Music streaming platform

Anonymized. Took a streaming startup from laptop prototype to multi-env GCP: Cloud Run API, Fastly media CDN, Terraform + CI.

Learn more → Sep – Nov 2025

GCP & Workspace migration

Anonymized. Led a 30 TB GCP + Workspace migration with an overseas partner — PM, leadership, and SRE: plans, docs, staged overnight cutover, and operability.

Learn more →

Workshops

Workshop · SCaLE 23x

Building a mesh node from a kit

Public resources from our Pasadena workshop — everything attendees needed to keep going after the room emptied.

Learn more → Workshop · BSides Seattle '26

Hands-on mesh networking

The workshop returns for BSides Seattle: kits, firmware, and a room full of nodes talking to each other.

Learn more → Workshop · BSidesPDX '25

Custom firmware, telemetry, and a mesh BBS

Our deepest write-up: Heltec v3 firmware, GPS and BME280 wiring, antenna theory, and the BBS we ran for attendees.

Learn more →

Talks

Upcoming · BSidesLV '26

Broadcast, Don't Chat

Hyperlocal emergency status on $11 radios with LoRaCast — why mesh chat is the wrong shape for one-to-many alerts.

Learn more → Talk · BSidesPDX '25

From walkie-talkies to Meshtastic

An overview of communication platforms from walkie-talkies through to Meshtastic.

Learn more → Talk · BSidesLV '25

Can you hear me now?

A survey of communications platforms during emergencies — what still works when infrastructure fails.

Learn more → Talk · LayerOne '25

Engineering Culture

Creating, maintaining, and identifying a high-quality technical environment.

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Open source & R&D

Open source

Nudge

Real-time Zoom call coaching, entirely local: live faster-whisper transcription plus Claude, surfacing a few high-value nudges instead of a transcript feed.

View on GitHub → Open source · R&D

why-am-i

A pocket LoRa social radar for conference buildings — direction arrows and distance bins to friends, no GPS or phones.

View on GitHub → Open source

LoRaCast

One-way LoRa emergency broadcast: signed SLIM pages from a Pi gateway to silent ESP32 receivers.

View on GitHub → Open source

Meshtastic firmware

Our custom event firmware for Heltec v3 boards, open for perusing and pull requests.

View on GitHub → Open source

meshSides BBS

Our BSidesPDX '25 fork of TC²-BBS — mail, bulletin boards, and a channel directory served to attendees over Meshtastic direct messages.

View on GitHub → Open source

tspprint

A CLI that turns a Star TSP654 receipt printer into a branded output device: raw TCP on port 9100, Star Line Mode or ESC/POS, and Markdown rendered as real printer styles.

View on GitHub →

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