What I’m working on
What I build
Projects across four disciplines. Pick a category to explore.
Recent Activity
Project wrapped. Production live on Vercel, admin fully self-service for the band, and every state surface - repo docs, client context, session memory - synced for a clean handoff. Close-out queue: confirm the DNS cutover, merge the booking form.
Domain cutover initiated: confirmed ajandthegroove.com is Wix-managed with no MX records to break, staged the Vercel DNS records, and emailed the client a step-by-step Wix guide - rollback values included - so she can make the switch herself.
Premium-field gating across the profile, church, and business edit forms: every field now shows, with locked ones grayed and a tooltip naming the tier that unlocks them, while a lapsed subscriber keeps their existing content editable.
Admin affiliate management: create, edit, and disable referral codes for any member, church, or business from one screen, with a type-ahead user search and case-insensitive uniqueness that prevents code collisions.
Caught a partial-apply incident on a security migration when smoke tests failed — 31 of 45 production functions broke under an empty search_path that the original spec assumed wouldn't matter. Reverted within the same builder session before any user impact, then redesigned the migration with full body schema-qualification before re-attempting.
Where This Is Heading
What's Cooking
Several things at once, as usual:
- AI systems and automation that take repetitive work off people's plates
- Websites and web apps that ship and do what they're supposed to
- Building out entertainment spaces with live sound and light systems
- There have been a bunch of tools that started as a personal experiment and ended up solving a real problem for a real client
- I've been playing in a brand-new space for me — ARGs — Stay tuned for more
On the surface, those don't have much in common. But the same instincts that make a live show run smoothly are the ones that make a software system hold together under pressure. The people I work with get the benefit of all of it, and it's a whole lot of fun.
The Endgame
Same pattern as always, just covering more ground.
Decades across sales training, military service, and enterprise technology will do that. The focus has shifted hard into AI development over the last couple of years, and it's been a hell of a ride so far.
People come back to work with me and bring friends because something got solved, something shipped, and they've got more problems worth solving.
The work itself:
- AI and automation has moved past experimentation — it's running for real clients, on real deadlines, giving people huge amounts of time back in their week
- The sound and lighting work is still a blast — years on stage before I ever stood behind a board means the people performing get someone who knows what it feels like from both sides
- My friends and clients who get things solved keep coming back with more challenges and bringing new friends along that often become new clients.
No master plan. But the pattern holds, the range keeps expanding, and something useful comes out the other side.