15 years in food service - learned work ethic, teamwork, customer service

20 years curious about computers - tinkering, researching, learning

Full-time NixOS user and convert

Pivoted to web dev through AI-assisted learning

Building skills every day, open to opportunities

Philosophy: Sovereignty through technical competence

Chinese game developer known for Genshin Impact, Honkai Rail, Zenless Zone Zero.

Key design principles:

• Non-intrusive UI with progressive disclosure

• Anticipatory animation sequencing

• Secondary motion polish (particles, glows)

• Character-first special moves

• Dynamic tooltip reveals

Reference: UI/UX patterns studied for portfolio redesign.

EXISTENTIALISM: Freedom through code creation

DETERMINISM: NixOS declarative systems

DIALECTICS: Iterative development cycles

PHENOMENOLOGY: User experience as lived reality

STOICISM: Embracing technical constraints

TRANSHUMANISM: Human-AI symbiosis

SOVEREIGNTY: Reclaiming the Digital Individual from the noise.

Social VR platform observations:

• Avatar expression as identity projection

• Spatial audio design for immersion

• World-building with Unity SDK

• Community-driven content creation

• Performance optimization for VR

Note: Explored avatar creation pipeline.

DECLARATIVE CONFIGURATION MANIFESTO

Core tenets:

1. Reproducibility over convenience

2. Atomic upgrades and rollbacks

3. Declarative system configuration

4. Reliable package management

5. Multi-environment support

Current deployment: Full workstation + 4-host cluster

Learning curve: Steep but worth it

GHOST IN THE SHELL: Tech philosophy, mecha aesthetics

EVANGELION: Psychological depth, mecha aesthetics

COWBOY BEBOP: Style, music, episodic narrative

STEINS;GATE: Time manipulation, cause/effect

PSYCHO-PASS: Surveillance society themes

Serial Experiments LAIN: Internet consciousness

Applied: Dark color schemes, cyberpunk aesthetics

1998: Fallout - Choice & consequence

2000: Deus Ex - Immersive sim design

2004: WoW - Social systems, progression

2011: Dark Souls - Environmental storytelling

2017: BOTW - Emergent gameplay

2020: Genshin - Gacha + open world

2023: BG3 - CRPG renaissance

Total hours: [CLASSIFIED]

LANGUAGES: TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust

FRONTEND: React, Astro, Tailwind, GSAP

BACKEND: Node.js, Express, FastAPI

DATABASE: PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite

INFRA: NixOS, Docker, Kubernetes

AI/ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, Local LLMs

DECK: Development workstation

ICE: Security measures / firewalls

RUN: Active development session

CHROME: User interface elements

DARK: Undocumented features

WAREZ: Open source tools

GRID: Network / internet

MEATSPACE: Physical reality

WIZARD: Expert programmer

High tech, low life aesthetic

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Blade Runner - Visual language

Akira - Neo-Tokyo aesthetics

Applied: Neon accents, dark themes, terminal UIs

ACTIVE SYSTEMS:

• Claude (Anthropic) - Primary coding assistant

• GPT-4 - Research and analysis

• Local LLMs - Privacy-sensitive tasks

• pi - Terminal-based AI coding agent

Philosophy: AI as force multiplier, not replacement

Coding soundtracks:

• Synthwave (Perturbator, Carpenter Brut)

• Lo-fi hip hop (focus sessions)

• Electronic (Daft Punk, Justice)

• Post-rock (Explosions in the Sky)

• J-Pop/Rock (Anime OPs)

OPSEC Practices:

• Full disk encryption (LUKS)

• GPG for commits and emails

• Hardware security keys (YubiKey)

• Network isolation (VLANs)

• Regular security audits

4-HOST INFRASTRUCTURE:

• Control plane: Multi-GPU workstation

• Storage: Dedicated storage node

• Compute: Multi-GPU compute nodes

• Monitoring: Infrastructure monitoring node

Colmena multi-host deployment system

Kubernetes migration in progress

Comprehensive documentation system with agent automation

CLIENT WORK:

• Troves & Coves - Crystal jewelry e-commerce (React + shadcn/ui)

• hair@home - Salon booking site (Hugo + SCSS)

PERSONAL PROJECTS:

• Frostbite Gazette - AI-curated Canadian journalism (Astro + Groq)

• Astral Key - Rust Web3 authentication microservice (Axum + SQLx)

• Synapse - Local-first AI command center (Tauri)

INFRASTRUCTURE:

• 4-host NixOS cluster with Colmena deployment

• Kubernetes migration in progress

All projects feature strict TypeScript, comprehensive docs

Production deployments on Cloudflare Workers, GitHub Pages

WEB DEVELOPMENT: Static sites → full storefronts (from CAD $1,500)

RUST MICROSERVICES: Auth, APIs, security tools (from CAD $2,500)

INFRASTRUCTURE: NixOS/K8s setup & migration (from CAD $3,000)

AI INTEGRATION: MCP servers, local LLM tools (from CAD $2,000)

All work includes:

• Production-grade code with strict TypeScript

• NixOS-compatible deployment where applicable

• AI-assisted development for faster delivery

• Comprehensive documentation

Model Context Protocol servers:

• Pinecone - Vector database operations

• Context7 - Live documentation lookup

• Stripe - Payment integration

• Web Reader - URL content extraction

Philosophy: Composable AI tooling via stdio JSON-RPC