Product strategy, AI tools & weekend builds.

Front end work, testing and documentation on an internal tool for wealth management advisors. First industry internship, and mostly a lesson in inheriting a codebase somebody else wrote.

A summer of interviewing educators across Ontario, 20+ conversations, synthesized into insights the team could act on. The problems that came back were ones nobody would have guessed at from a desk.

Sixteen straight months across research, Figma prototyping, service mapping and tooling evaluation. A component library from it is still in use, and one process got restructured because the map showed a manual step everyone had stopped noticing.

Product work on eCore, where the users are lawyers and the constraints are compliance requirements rather than preferences. Mostly translation between what a regulation demands and what someone will tolerate at 4pm on a Friday.

Full time strategy and operations on the SunAdvantage group benefits platform, which modernizes health and dental coverage for small and medium businesses. Automated reporting, process discovery, and business transformation.

A Unity project taken all the way to a WebGL build and put on the internet. Sword mechanics, physics constraints, and browser performance budgets connecting directly to game design theory.

An AI-powered recruiting and athletic roster planner built for coaches to evaluate player fits, depth charts, and eligibility timelines under rapid iteration.

Gift giving treated as a structured preference matching problem. Testing the product surface and user onboarding before committing to heavyweight backend logic.

A real-time office hours queue management system researched, designed, and evaluated using HCI methodologies at U of T. Dynamic wait estimates, structured intake, and DBSCAN question clustering scoring an 89.6 SUS (Grade A).

Started as a CSC301 project in January and stopped being one. AI parsing that turns multi-format syllabi into a structured semester. Incubated at UTM ICUBE from the summer, alongside the Sun Life term.

The first attempt: scrape, narrate with pyttsx3, upload to Google Drive, and email the link. Taught the hard lesson that an email with a Drive link dies inside a month.

The rebuild: drops a playable neural audio file straight into Discord where people already are. Scraping weekly publications and delivering automated audio summaries to the community.

Retrieval assistant that answers only from indexed source passages and cites each claim by document and page. Hallucination is prevented by the retrieval architecture rather than by prompts.

A continuously self-updating markdown knowledge base with automated synthesis across dozens of research notes, articles, and operating playbooks.

Self-hosted n8n orchestrator on PikaPods with Telegram input and Claude classification, routing thoughts into structured Notion pages.

Apify web scraper and LLM scoring pipeline ranking startup strategy roles automatically against specific skill criteria.

Decades of baseball statistics parsed in R to rerun the Oakland replacement problem, plus a ggplot2 rebuild of the Economist corruption chart. The lesson was that a chart is an argument about what someone notices first.

A linear regression on rental counts against temperature, season and hour. The model underperformed, and reading the residuals is what made it worth building. Two commuter rush hours in the scatter plot said more than the metrics did.

Local first job search app. Apify ingestion, resume parsing, and model scored matching behind one provider interface covering Claude, Gemini, Groq, local Ollama and a stub mode. Everything stays on disk, and live calls stay gated behind flags.

CSV import, category rules and take home pay modelled against 2026 Canadian brackets across four lifestyle scenarios. Runs entirely in the browser, because it is my money and it does not need an account.

Reading a financial foundation model closely enough to work out that the tokenizer is the whole trick. Fine tuning setup, architecture notes, and a much better sense of what these models can and cannot claim.

On Langdon Winner and Steven Jackson, and what a closed TTC line and an unrepairable smartphone have in common. A critique of planned obsolescence and public utility stewardship.

Taking the Systems Reply seriously: why the room understands Chinese even if the person inside it does not. The boundary between syntactic symbol manipulation and semantic comprehension.

Four strangers on one couch, one Xbox controller each, and an argument for why local co-op built social community that online matchmaking never could replicate.

A letter to the commuter train that carried an immigrant kid to a Raptors game and, years later, to his own corporate job downtown. The quiet rhythm of regional transit and shared public life.

How copyright law and weak open access policy let corporate publishers profit from research the public already paid for, plus the systemic reforms required to restore open scholarship.

Why a game with a $100,000 budget deserves classic status, argued through what it started in sports simulation architecture rather than how it played.