Engineering · Experiments · Selected work
Test automation, tools for humans, and spaces you can step inside. Explore what I build and the decisions behind it.
On screen · In VR · In ARStep into the 3D galleryFrom daily engineering to open experiments
Engineering at work
I own regression automation for a government software contractor. My current work moves a VB.NET suite to a C# adapter that supports both Selenium and Playwright.
The challenge is to keep existing coverage useful while changing the driver beneath it. I also document shared rules and review practices for AI-assisted work within my QA team.
Tools you can use
Chat About Ben, Promptpad, Problem Solver and Agent Agenda explore conversational interfaces, prompt refinement and guided workflows.
The apps pair browser interfaces with server-side prompts, explicit user actions, retry handling and visible errors. Chat About Ben is a beta; the resume remains the source for employment facts.
Three.js · WebXR
Project frames, interactive objects and 360° photographs share one gallery. Explore on a screen, in VR or as a headset AR miniature.
The gallery uses Three.js and cannon-es, with desktop and touch controls, controller and hand interactions, teleportation and grab mechanics. The rebuild article records the headset checks and remaining device limits.
Menuat · 2016–2018
I translated brand requirements into responsive digital menu boards and companion menus, working across client consultations, design and delivery.
The Menuat stack used CouchDB, JSON, Bootstrap and jQuery. This work predates the Firebase and Node.js tools on this site.
Prompt workflows
A separate home for my prompt engineering work and reusable instructions.
Explore the catalog and the workflows behind it at Promptfolio.dev.
A collaborator’s corner
Meet my personal AI collaborator and explore his browser apps, notes and visual experiments.
Koda keeps his own site at kodalivenow.com, including Kaleidoscope, Tie-Dye Mandelbrot and a record of current work.
The work that came before
Promptfolio.dev is where my creative-writing background and my engineering habits met. It's a platform of custom GPTs I designed for work, chat, and art, each one an exercise in interaction design as much as prompt engineering. Building it is what pushed me from writing prompts toward building the tooling around them; that thread continues in the AI Lab, where the same ideas now run against open models with a real backend, rate limiting, and a test suite behind them.
From February 2016 to May 2018 I worked for Menuat, a B2B SaaS company, where I delivered hundreds of restaurant and retail digital menu screens for roughly a hundred clients. Menuat's cloud-hosted platform was built on CouchDB, JSON, and a Bootstrap/jQuery front end, and let clients update their menus in real time.
These screenshots show some of the digital menus I developed with Menuat.
This menu features round slideshows.
This menu features text animations and slideshows.
I developed and designed this menu template.
This project features animated decorative elements.
I developed an automatically updating custom movie board.
Project management and development lead for this client.
Donuts and this design both make me smile.
This menu animates featured items and scrolling sections.
A notable internet company's cafeteria uses this menu.
A tricky redesign of a legacy menu.
My first project featured animated illustrations.
I served as interim project manager for about six months while the company hired a permanent PM — a process I helped with — owning the full project life cycle (scoping, database setup, frontend build, QA, install coordination, and support) across the client base during that stretch.
Photo Credit: S'Wiched Facebook Public Feed
Most projects included the fully editable and often animated digital menu screen views as well as accompanying responsive mobile menus for customer ordering and a matching responsive editor view that enables real time menu updates from any web browsing device.
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Screenshot from 1 of 4 Restaurant Views
Digital Menu Project developed for one of approximately one hundred Menuat clients. Visit S'wiched menu.
I owned each project end to end: scoping it with sales and design in client consultations, setting up the database and project, building the front end, QA testing it, coordinating the onsite install, and taking the support calls afterward from clients and contractors.
As part of my application for the role with Menuat I coded a benu of what I have to offer. Visit the benu.
Mobile Covershot View
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In 2018 I built a full stack responsive site on WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for a design firm's software-startup client.
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Screenshots of Point of Sale Startup Website developed for We Are Charette. Visit Hazlnut site.
In 2012 I designed and built a full stack responsive site for a local IT firm, including a custom PHP page server that delivered the HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS front end. It stayed in production until the business closed more than ten years later.
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Screenshots of Law Office Website developed for Enix Networks.
My interactive portfolio turns the work on this site into a gallery you can explore. The refreshed Three.js scene includes readable light-box exhibits, physics-enabled devices, articulated hands, and a tabletop AR view.
Screenshot from WebXR Portfolio Entry Point
Visit on a regular screen with keyboard, mouse, or touch controls. In a compatible headset, use controllers or hand tracking to explore and pick up the devices. Teleportation and adjustable movement settings keep navigation comfortable; AR presents the room as a movable, scalable miniature.
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Interactive portfolio
Explore the 3D gallery
On screen, in VR or AR.
No headset needed.
Earlier views of the gallery. Visit the refreshed version to explore the current scene.
My VR and spatial media tinkering includes web experiences built for the unique interaction capabilities of 360° media, Google Cardboard, Mobile 3DoF, PC 6DoF, and Quest platforms.
Browse my current work and experiments on GitHub.
I have also taken deeper dives into VR development utilizing the Oculus SDK for Unity and OpenXR.
In working through Udemy Coursework, I have become familiar with three dimensional art concepts from a technical standpoint as they apply in a Blender to Unity pipeline.
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Scene from Unity coursework
With guidance from Unity developer coursework I have built several small game interactions and a few larger game concepts.
At times my digital media hobbyist broadcast Ben Live has included OBS produced livestreaming of front end development, playful kittens, social media management, gaming, 360° video, and custom rendered VFX in 2D, 3D and 360° formats.
I am comfortable using an extensive variety of CLI, GUI, AI, 3D, and Spatial media creation and interaction development applications. I have spent countless hours using keyboards, mice, touchscreens, voice commands, and controllers to interact with software including instances of beta testing gaming and web application software to provide user experience data and feedback to inform the development process.
My partner and I live in St. Augustine, Florida with our two cats. I'm interested in remote AI-enhanced software engineering roles, the kind where I can ship features, harden them with tests, and build the tooling and context that lets a team work well with AI, and I'll consider relocation only for an exceptional frontier-lab opportunity.
My first software engineering role resulted from a nationwide competitive interview process for a venture backed startup and included both remote and onsite collaboration with coworkers and clients. Before leveling up to my first salaried job in technology, I was livestreaming coding sessions, kittens, and gaming from my home office turned media studio to elevate my visibility as a developer.
As a senior in college studying creative and technical writing, I interned as a community manager for a multinational social media startup operating in stealth mode from the suburbs of Tampa. I am trained and comfortable using most Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office applications as well as their open source alternatives. During my time in community college, I volunteered as a proofreader and technical assistant for our English department's after hours tutoring program.
I campaigned for change, occupied, and felt the Bern. I haven't eaten meat in over a decade out of concern for the health of my person and planet. Progressive politics are a real and non-negotiable aspect of my choices personally and professionally because regressive politics are illogical, cruel, and dangerous.
I studied technology, digital media, and produced the morning news broadcast through high school. As a teenager, I built an e-commerce site for a local salon garment manufacturer using Macromedia Flash. Creative media development with emerging technology has always been a primary interest of mine; I have personally, academically, and professionally sought out and engaged with contemporary iterations of human-computer interaction throughout my life.
I usually enjoy free time by watching Star Trek or playing third person open world video games. My favorite Star Trek series are Deep Space Nine and Discovery. As an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, I always have more video games available than time to play them. Going back to Skyrim in VR was a particularly surreal experience because I was stepping into a world that already felt familiar. The emergence of AI alongside XR computing is an exciting time because science fiction is becoming reality.