Founder · Engineer · Builder
Built from curiosity. Guided by purpose.
Software, machines, places, fabrication, aviation, and product building brought into one continuous practice of learning how things work.
A software engineer by training, but not by limitation. My work moves through aircraft, 3D printing, motorcycles, restoration, music, construction, shelters, mobile software, and company building.
The medium changes, but the process stays constant: observe, build, test, iterate, and make it better.
Since childhood, I have spent my time learning how things work, taking them apart, and rebuilding them again.
Selected Work
Things I’ve Built
Software products, field-tested shelters, mechanical restorations, aircraft builds, and long-form craft practice.
Detour
A location-based social platform for discovering new places through the spots you and your friends love.
Residential Construction Systems
Hands-on exposure to plans, design logic, electrical review, walkthroughs, and issue-spotting across residential projects.
Rooftop Tent
Designed and built from scratch, then tested on the road instead of just in the garage.
Burning Man Tent
Designed and fabricated for heat, dust, rain, transport constraints, and fast assembly.
Motorcycle Restorations
Mechanical restoration across vintage Hondas and a Kawasaki: wiring, brakes, suspension, paint, engines, and carburetors.
Tricopter & Quadcopter Builds
Scratch-built aircraft, tricopters, quadcopters, FPV systems, CAD frames, 3D printed parts, and milled components.
Piano & Century-Old Instrument Restoration
Learned piano independently, then restored a century-old upright through keys, action, tuning, and finish work.
Darkroom Photography
Explored analog photography through darkroom work, where light, chemistry, timing, and paper become a physical system.
Current Focus
Detour
A mobile-first product built around real-world connection, place-based discovery, and the human meaning behind favorite places.
Product · Maps · Memory
A social collection of your favorite spots.
Detour turns places into a social layer: friends, saved spots, countries, memories, and discovery organized around where life actually happens.
Places
Favorite spots become the foundation of discovery.
Friends
See overlap through the places people care about.
Memory
Photos and maps turn movement into context.
200+app versions pushed to GitHub
4major product phases before Detour
50kphotos processed in under one minute
Globalcountry and territory detection
Founder
Building a mobile-first social platform around real-world connection, favorite places, and discovery through the locations people care about.
Product Evolution
Detour evolved from dating to social discovery to friend-making, then into a place-based connection platform.
Engineering
Built with Swift, SwiftUI, Supabase, maps, geolocation, photo intelligence, and backend systems for physical-world behavior.
Aviation · Fabrication
From small aircraft to milled parts.
The aviation work connects early curiosity to real fabrication: flight lessons, RC aircraft, tricopters, CAD, CNC milling, and custom frames.
20+scratch-built aircraft
30+aircraft types flown
17 yrsRC flight experience since 2009
10+tricopter and quadcopter builds
Jan 23, 2011
First tricopter attempt, where flight control became a buildable problem.
July 15, 2011
Discovery flight and early exposure to real aviation systems.
March 18, 2011
First FPV plane and early experiments with perspective, control, and range.
Feb 12, 2011
A more rigid aircraft frame, pushing the builds toward stronger fabricated systems.
May 06, 2012
Tricopter built using 3D printed parts.
March 16, 2015
Milling custom parts and translating CAD intent into physical geometry.
Architecture · Construction
Buildable systems at architectural scale.
Construction made the same pattern larger: plans, constraints, walkthroughs, coordination, and buildable details.
Plans · Review
Official drawings, electrical logic, design intent, and construction details reviewed as connected systems.
Southwest Ranches · Since 2018
Three completed new homes, plus an 8,000 sq ft barn concept modeled with CAD.
Construction Systems
Ideas become real only when the details agree.
Growing up around architects and construction gave me a practical eye for drawings, sequencing, electrical coordination, site constraints, and the small issues that decide whether a project works in the real world.
3new homes completed in Southwest Ranches, Florida
~6 acresacross three residential lots
8,000 sq ftbarn concept designed with CAD
14horse stalls with tack lockers
Field-Tested Builds
Shelters that had to work outside the garage.
The tent projects were real-world tests: design quickly, transport, assemble, expose to road miles, weather, dust, and desert conditions.
5,000+miles of rooftop tent road testing
2 weeksrooftop clamshell tent build
3 weeksBurning Man shelter build
9 daysdesert field test
Sept 24, 2021
Rooftop tent in Colorado, after surviving the road and becoming a real field test.
Field Setup
Rooftop tent mounted on a Tacoma.
Sept 01, 2024
Burning Man 2024 tent, built for heat, dust, transport, and fast assembly.
Restoration
Systems with weight, sound, and memory.
Some projects were software. Others were machines and instruments you could hear, tune, repair, and bring back to life.
3motorcycles running
2complete motorcycle rebuilds
3carburetor rebuilds
1913approximate upright piano year
June 10, 2019
100+ year old piano restoration, studied through the mechanism itself.
Jan 16, 2020
1979 Kawasaki KZ750 rebuild.
April 10, 2021
Honda CB750 engine work.
Builder’s Timeline
A condensed timeline organized by era
2009–2011
Early systems.
Arduino, RC aircraft, programming, and early fabrication became the base.
2011–2016
Flight systems.
FPV, discovery flight, tricopters, CAD frames, and camera-mounted builds.
2017–2022
Restoration depth.
Motorcycles and a century-old piano restored through diagnosis, repair, and tuning.
2018–2025
Architecture and construction.
Plans, site constraints, electrical coordination, walkthroughs, and buildable structure.
2021–2024
Field-tested builds.
Shelters designed for transport, assembly, road miles, heat, dust, and weather.
2023–Present
Swift, SwiftUI, geospatial product design, and Detour.
The work now comes together in Detour: maps, favorite places, photo intelligence, friends, and real-world context.
0API calls required for photo processing.
100%Designed, engineered, and maintained by one developer.
190+country and territory detection using custom GeoJSON boundaries.
2010Hardware coding began with Arduino at age 13
2012First formal JavaScript course at age 15
2017Serious app and software development began
Capabilities
Disciplines I Move Between
Software
Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Supabase, geolocation, mapping, product architecture, mobile UX.
Fabrication
CAD, 3D printing, CNC milling, prototyping, structural problem solving, field testing.
Mechanical
Motorcycle restoration, carburetors, electrical systems, troubleshooting, repair, assembly.
Construction
Plan review, electrical coordination, site walkthroughs, CAD concepts, residential construction logic.
Creative
Piano, cooking, writing, product storytelling, observation, and design sensibility.
