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The studio had no financial baselines or per-project figures, and its payments, payroll records and collections lived in separate spreadsheets. The platform brings them into one ledger, so the directors can see where the studio stands and payments go out on a weekly schedule, with approvals.

Designed and shipped the studio's internal finance and administration platform, in production on AWS since July 2026: ledger, collections and retainers, payment requests with approvals and a weekly payment run, quotations with a costing engine, payroll records, invoice tracking with fiscal checks and director dashboards.

Changes reach production only after automated integration tests against a real database, so the platform can be extended every week without interrupting the team's work.

The platform also hosts a daily ingestion pipeline from the Meta Marketing API into Postgres and Google Sheets, and an LLM assistant that calls the platform's own tools under the user's role permissions.

Biosafety assessments have to be defensible, so the product could not rely on a model answering from memory. Every answer is built from a curated set of authoritative sources and cites them, and the service runs self-contained and supervised, so assessors can check each recommendation.

Designed and built the knowledge base, data pipeline and AI service layer in Python on AWS: a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service with semantic search and citation tracking on every answer, on a serverless architecture (Lambda, Bedrock) with no dependence on third-party services.

Designed model routing by assessment type, with automatic failover on a refusal.

Integrated the insights pipeline into the partner's Django backend behind a feature flag, with rate limits and a rollback plan, validated against real production assessments.

IBBIS's Common Mechanism runs from the command line, which keeps it out of reach of many of the technicians at synthesis providers who are meant to use it. A web interface removes that barrier and leaves the screening itself to IBBIS's tool.

Built and deployed a web interface for IBBIS's open-source Common Mechanism DNA-synthesis screening tool, so that synthesis providers and technicians can run a screen without the command line or bioinformatics expertise.

Proof of concept, released as open source under the MIT license. I presented it to the IBBIS team through an email exchange and a meeting, where they asked about the design rationale and for my input on bringing the tool to wider audiences, their planned next step. The screenshots and the linked demo come from its demo mode, which runs in the browser with sample data.

Regional conferences such as EAGx could not offer live interpretation because of its cost, so part of the audience followed talks in a second language. The platform lets an event offer its talks in several languages on attendees' own phones, at a fraction of the cost.

Designed and built a real-time AI translation platform on Next.js and TypeScript: the speaker's audio goes to a realtime speech model over WebRTC and the translated audio is republished through a self-hosted LiveKit server to listeners' phones, with an operator dashboard and a listener web page.

Credentials stay on the server: each session receives short-lived tokens minted server-side and scoped to its role, so the browser never holds an API key and a listener can receive the translation but never publish to the room.

A second provider's realtime speech model runs as a parallel A/B engine, and both engines are compared on the same audio across logged sessions, with a written decision record.

The linked demo replays a 1962 public-domain recording through the listener and operator views, with translated captions and AI-generated voices, in the browser and without keys.

Inspectors wrote their field notes and then retyped them into each report, and expiry dates were tracked by hand. The platform captures a site visit once and produces the deliverables from it, and it flags commitments before they expire.

A proof of concept for workplace safety and compliance audits, shown as a May 2026 snapshot. Inspectors record a site visit once (findings by area with priority and regulatory reference, extinguisher inventory, environmental checks, ergonomic questionnaires) and the platform produces the deliverables from that single capture.

A team dashboard surfaces recent audits, overdue extinguishers and open high-priority findings; an expiry tracker sorts commitments into overdue, critical and upcoming.

Field advisors service cooling towers, boilers and softeners at industrial plants every month. Readings were written by hand on site, re-keyed into a spreadsheet, photos were pasted into cells and the sheet was printed for signatures; by the company's own estimate each report took a full day, and nothing flagged a reading outside its ideal range.

The advisor captures make-up water, chemical readings and the physical inspection for every unit on one screen, and each reading is checked against that unit's spec range as it is entered and flagged when it falls outside. Sign-off happens on screen, one click produces a bilingual PDF and a shareable link for the customer, and every unit keeps a trend chart across visits. Equipment types and vendor ranges live in editable registries, so the catalog changes without a code change.

Functional demo, deployed for the client's evaluation. The linked static demo runs in the browser with fictional customers, equipment and readings.

The studio wanted to organise how it lent equipment to its own productions and to put its spare equipment to work by renting it to outside productions, as an additional source of income for the space. The kiosk was designed to bring a check-out from three to five minutes to under fifteen seconds, and the public site to take rentals.

Started as an internal kiosk inventory tool for a creative studio and grew into a dual-platform equipment-rental solution: an internal kiosk app with hardware barcode-scanner check-out and check-in, and a public rental site with real-time availability and automatic conflict detection.

Taken to an advanced functional demo deployed for evaluation; not in daily use. The linked static demo shows the public landing page and catalog with fictional equipment and prices.