www.thebathroomwall.link

This is my attempt at capturing the magic of latrinalia (bathroom graffiti) using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and SAM. The frontend lives in a private S3 bucket and is served securely via CloudFront/OAC. The backend is powered by three Lambda functions (post message, get message, and a cleanup function) and three DynamoDB tables (one storing the messages, an index table for scalability, and a table that integrates with the post message Lambda to handle rate limiting). This project demonstrates best practices in modern cloud architectures and showcases my ability to design, deploy, optimize, and troubleshoot production-grade serverless solutions. Go ahead, post what's on your mind (or visit my GitHub to spin up your own stack).

www.rejectedvanityplates.com

My most popular AWS-based project, this serverless app leverages AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, and S3 to serve up real, often hilarious, vanity plate applications. A RESTful API hits up a CSV stored in an S3 bucket. The frontend is served via S3 hooked to CloudFront. Seriously, this one's a great time waster.

www.wartburgweather.art

A server-based project built on DigitalOcean, this project leverages a custom-built Raspberry Pi weather station, the Anthropic LLM API, with a Node.js backend to generate algorithmic prose poetry based on the weather of my hometown.

Digital Metis: Computer Hacking and Agonistic Rhetoric

My dissertation explores the development and cultural cache of the "mythic hacker archetype" while examining the failings (and potential solutions) of end-user cybersecurity pedagogies.