I started coding in 2004, scripting video games. When I saw something a game didn't do, I wrote the thing that made it do it, and I never really stopped. By the time I got to Southeastern Louisiana for a Computer Science degree, the hobby had turned into a career path, and school pointed it toward business software.

My first real job was at Lipsey's, a firearms distributor in Baton Rouge. I spent two years there on a full modernization of a large VB codebase onto .NET Core + React, covering both the customer-facing surface and the internal tools, rebuilt incrementally without taking the system offline. That shape of problem is the kind of work I kept going back to: an old system that still earns its keep, with real users on the other end, that needs to move forward without breaking.

Since late 2021 I've been on Fastlane, a compliance platform at Tri-Core. End-to-end feature work across API, web, data model, and rollout, collaborating with a development team and project managers for four-plus years. In the margins, I've shipped four solo products: a recipe site migrated off WordPress with a print-on-demand cookbook (CookJunkie), a pay-as-you-go scheduling SaaS for tutors (TutorTab), an offline-first POS for market vendors on both app stores (Vorbiz), and a gardening content site with AI-assisted drafting (Weekend Plant).

I treat AI as a teammate you give narrow, well-specified tasks to, then review. Most of what I build with agents is the operational plumbing around them (the batching, the dry-run mode, the review step) rather than the model call itself.

Consulting work runs through Jawetzel LLC, my Louisiana company, so contracts and invoices come from there. It's still a one-person shop; the entity is the paperwork, not a bench of subcontractors.

The site you're reading is public on GitHub if you want to see how it's built.