Software Engineer · Self-Hosting Advocate · Music Obsessive
Building purposeful software — clean architectures, developer tooling, and the occasional vanity project.
I'm a software engineer with a fondness for clean architecture, strong opinions about tooling, and an embarrassingly deep interest in music.
By day I design and build .NET systems with a focus on clean architecture, proper testing, and CI/CD that actually works. By night I run self-hosted infrastructure, build Obsidian plugins, and over-engineer my music library. When I'm away from the keyboard you'll find me training for a triathlon or hunting down a record.
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An eclectic radio station built on Hugo with a bespoke .NET 10 content operations pipeline. The pipeline handles album intake, Spotify and Lidarr integration, and automated publishing — all packaged as a self-contained binary with a GHCR-published Docker image.
Tech: .NET 10 · Clean Architecture · Mediator · ErrorOr · Docker · GitHub Actions · Hugo
A TypeScript plugin for Obsidian that brings CookLang recipe management into your knowledge base. Render, browse, and manage structured recipes alongside your notes.
Tech: TypeScript · Obsidian API
Sample project demonstrating fitness data integration with the Strava API via Strava.NET — a useful reference for anyone building health and activity tracking applications.
Tech: C# · .NET · Strava API
A structured, opinionated productivity system: reusable Todoist templates, weekly review workflows, and automation patterns for power users who want repeatability without the overhead.
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Last updated: 27 March 2026 at 17:20 UTC
- sundown-sessions — 🌎 The Sundown Sessions website.
HTML - todoist-playbook — A productivity playbook for Todoist - reusable templates, weekly review workflows, and automation patterns for power users.
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- foam2
SCSS - art-school-dance
HTML⭐ 1 - pi-collectarr
C# - resume
HTML - collectarr
Last updated: 27 March 2026 at 17:20 UTC
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