Independence, Missouri

I build software for towns, families, and the people who show up when things go wrong.

I'm a firefighter who ships production software — native apps, civic systems, encrypted infrastructure, and developer tooling. Most of it exists because my family, my department, or my town needed it to.

Lately that work has been about how coding agents find what matters. My retrieval tool prepass placed first of eight on an independent benchmark, ahead of embedding models many times its size — and I built the evaluation that proves it as carefully as I built the tool.

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Agent Retrieval Bench: 1st; of 8 on trace2code — R@5 0.777 vs 0.449 next-best
Held-out issues: 82.1%; top-20 over 407 issues never tuned on
Platforms: 6; iOS, watchOS, macOS, Android, web, CLI
Press: 2; KCTV5 and Fox4 KC segments

Selected work

The record.

01Shipping · Marketplace · Consumer iOS

BRYKK Local

The neighborhood marketplace where nobody pays to be a neighbor.

Native SwiftUI marketplace submitted to App Store review with a full metadata and screenshot package, backed by a deployed business-alert layer proven against Stripe in sandbox.

brykk.app/market ↗How it's built

02Live · Graphics Engineering · Creative Tooling

ScreenStage

Turn any screen into a cinematic 3D stage — live, at 120fps, straight into OBS.

A public, Developer-ID signed and notarized macOS studio running a custom Metal engine — live 60–120fps screen capture on 3D geometry, Syphon output to OBS, and in-app App Store Connect upload.

screenstage.io ↗How it's built

03Live · Product + Ops

BRYKK

Family location and safety, without the cloud.

Shipped a live diagnostic pipeline and found a production CloudKit bug affecting every family joiner.

brykk.app ↗How it's built

Also built

plumbYour coding agent says it's done. Nothing checked. how it's builtLive

05PRprepassStop the agent searching from zero. how it's builtLive

06THThe completion-gate studyI wrote down what would count as success. Then I missed it. how it's builtLive

07LOLocker DropEncrypted file transfer with no size cap — and I never see your files. how it's builtLive

08PIPin311Report a problem to your city without downloading anything. how it's builtLive

09RERental Inspection ComplianceWhen a deadline carries legal weight, it belongs in one tested function. how it's builtShipping

10LOLockerTurn your inbox into a private command centre for apps, bots, and AI agents. how it's builtLive

FobA local base for AI-assisted work. how it's builtLive

CLOAKRedact code before it reaches an LLM. how it's builtLive

13NANativeBridgeA browser IDE that converts iOS apps to Android. Swift ↔ TypeScript ↔ Kotlin, across four working parsers. how it's builtLive

GoKCKansas City for visitors and locals. 750+ places, 8 languages, native iOS + Android. how it's builtLive

RANKANOff-grid walkie-talkie + GPS for your group. Free. No subscription. No account. how it's builtLive

PinPalsFind golfers nearby, match, chat, and turn the chat into an actual round. how it's builtLive

17PAPayCheck BudgetThe budget app that says no when 'yes' would leave the family with $0. how it's builtLive

Face2FaceFaceTime your kid. Pick a game. Both phones see the same board. how it's builtLive

19INInbox TicketsI rebuilt my day job's inbox as a CRM I actually want to use. how it's builtLive

20PUPuptown PalsAn animated kids' channel where the whole studio is a build pipeline. how it's builtLive

21GRGRAVITASTwo million stars, real gravity, one finger — running at 120fps on an iPad. how it's builtIn progress

About

A firefighter who ships production software.

I'm an active firefighter with the Sugar Creek Fire Department and a father. That shows up in what I build: family safety, emergency tooling, privacy-first architecture, and software that has to hold up when it matters.

It started in October 2025 at the kitchen table with one question — what can we actually afford? That became an App Store budgeting app, then a render studio with its own Metal engine, open-source tooling on PyPI, a civic reporting platform, and a neighborhood marketplace for my own town. KCTV5 and Fox4 ran segments on GoKC ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

I work nights and after shifts. Every product here was architected and built by me, solo and end to end — the schema, the backend, the interface, the store listing, and the support email.

KCTV5 feature ↗Fox4 KC feature ↗