I build developer tools and desktop apps: small, fast, genuinely-free software for people who live in a terminal and an editor. Most of what I make is open source and keyless by default.
I came up through full-stack web work and kept drifting lower in the stack, toward the close-to-the-metal things: web unlockers, git internals, on-device Android hacks. I like building the unglamorous infrastructure that other tools quietly lean on.
By day I'm a software engineer and architect on production SaaS. Most recently I designed and built an agentic AI compliance platform end to end: a tool-calling assistant with safety-gated write actions (propose-then-confirm, server-side re-validation, audit logging), a deterministic statutory-deadline engine, and a multi-provider LLM layer (OpenAI / Gemini / Claude) with cost accounting and admin-governed model routing. Before that: transcription, document-AI / OCR, and AI avatar platforms across React, React Native, Node, Python, MongoDB, and AWS.
Right now I'm building an open web-retrieval layer for AI agents, local AI usage telemetry, a git review companion, and a few things for the Nothing Phone.
searchts - The missing layer between AI and the web. An escalating open-source unlocker (browser-fingerprinted fetch, JS-render relay, stealth browser, human-in-the-loop CAPTCHA) that gets agents past Cloudflare, PerimeterX, and DataDome. Decodes AI-chat share links no generic reader can (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Poe -> complete role-labeled conversations), plus keyless read / search / transcribe / grab across the open web, GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, LinkedIn, and RSS, with prompt-injection scrubbing built in. Ships as a CLI, an MCP server, and a Claude Code skill. Python, MIT, on PyPI.
burncard - Accurate local AI usage telemetry for Claude Code and Codex: see what your agent sessions actually used and cost, computed from your own logs on your own machine. npx burncard. TypeScript.
Grove - A genuinely-free git review companion that sits beside your AI editor: a custom SVG commit graph, real diffs (even on merge commits), blame, instant spotlight search, and a worktree-first dashboard for when several agents are running at once. Rust + Tauri + Svelte 5, GPL-3.0.
GlyphMaps - Mirror Google Maps turn-by-turn directions onto the 137-LED Glyph Matrix on the back of a Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, so you glance at the back of your phone instead of the screen. Built on a reverse-engineered notification pipeline and an unthrottled matrix path the official API doesn't give you. Shipped v1.0.0, signed APK on Releases. Kotlin, AGPL-3.0.
beep-beep-oss - An open-source, self-hostable universal chat client: all your messaging networks in one native inbox, nothing gated behind a paywall. Beeper's core architecture rebuilt in the open: Matrix homeserver + mautrix bridges + a native Tauri / Rust client. Already a working two-way WhatsApp messenger. AGPL-3.0, in progress.
Smaller delights: CoffeeBreath (a Rainmeter music widget that pulls the accent color from the current album art and breathes with the song), a glass Discord voice overlay for the desktop, and capad.fyi, a from-scratch Next.js + WebGL portfolio.
Day to day I reach for:
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Web (daily driver) | React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Node, Express, MongoDB |
| AI-assisted dev | Claude Code (power user), Codex, DeepSeek, custom MCP servers, agent harnesses |
| AI engineering | Agentic assistants with safety-gated actions, multi-provider LLM APIs (OpenAI / Gemini / Claude), usage and cost telemetry |
| Agents, libraries | Python, TypeScript, MCP |
| Desktop apps | Rust, Tauri, Svelte |
| Mobile | Kotlin, Android; React Native (Expo) |
| Infra, tooling | Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub Actions, git, ffmpeg |
The fuller toolbox (also comfortable in)
- Web: React, Next.js, Redux, Node, Express, Tailwind, Material UI, HTML, CSS
- Motion and graphics: GSAP, Motion, Lenis, SVG, WebGL (React Three Fiber)
- Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Sanity
- AI: multi-provider LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude), agentic assistants with safety-gated actions, MCP servers, Claude Code skills, LLM training work
- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Lua, C
- Build and tooling: Docker, Webpack, npm, PyPI, Vercel, Git (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket)
- Design: Figma, Canva
- Proof-first: a throwaway benchmark or prototype greenlights the approach before any integration.
- Reverse-engineering when there is no API: Maps' notification format, bot-wall fingerprints, bridge behavior.
- Everything ships with CI, real releases (PyPI, signed APKs), and a plain-English write-up.
- Free and open by default: MIT, GPL, or AGPL, chosen deliberately per project.
I tinker with my Nothing Phone (custom Glyph Matrix experiments), build in public, and have a soft spot for tools that do one thing fast and then get out of the way.
- Portfolio: capad.fyi
- Email: hi@capad.fyi
- Or open an issue on any of the repos above