Engineering log · self-taught since 2011 · shipping to real people
I'm a self-taught developer and reverse engineer. I like shipping things people actually use, then sticking around to maintain them. My navigation tool for Path of Exile 2 has more than a thousand players on it right now, and I've patched it in step with the game since the day it launched.
A live overlay that reads the game as you play and guides you through maps in real time. More than 1,000 people use it daily. I ship a patch within a day or two of every game update — 90 releases and 745 commits since launch in May 2026 — and I run the whole thing solo: the Windows overlay, the Cloudflare Workers backend, and the supporter tooling.
I co-founded a three-person company and built its store from the database up: the storefront, checkout, and an automated pipeline that delivers orders instantly. To give the community free tools, I reverse-engineered the game client and its network protocol and shipped a custom client and a real-time event notifier. It has been running for nearly a decade.
Every hour it reads the top of the ladder through poe.ninja and distills more than 124,000 characters into a ranked list of builds. Click once and it writes a build straight into the game's planner through the File System Access API. There is no backend and nothing gets tracked; it is stdlib Python on an hourly GitHub Action that fails safe.
I run a small studio that builds sites for retail shops and restaurants around Northern California — design, build, and delivery, start to finish.
I ported Android 4.0 to phones that never officially got it, adapting the framework from a supported device onto older hardware that shared much of its internals. It was bytecode-level work: decompiling system apps to smali, patching and recompiling the framework, and editing build.prop and firmware internals. One ROM I worked on passed 5,000,000 downloads on XDA.
I build and maintain the organization's production website end to end: feature work, user-acceptance testing, and tracking down issues in production through root-cause analysis.
Deployed and maintained embedded systems in an aerospace shop, repaired hardware, and turned dense technical detail into plain language for the people using the devices.
Three tools I wrote that take apart binary formats in your browser. Nothing gets uploaded. Each runs on a parser I wrote from scratch, checked byte-for-byte against a separate implementation.
APK Inspector decodes an Android app's manifest, permissions, and signing. Packet Visualizer reads a .pcap or .pcapng and dissects it up the stack. APK Security Scanner grades an app A–F, flagging risky config and hardcoded secrets.
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