Projects

Ideas that I have toyed with.

• Hinge automation- I built this when I was into dating. Swiping is a bad process and a drain on time, so I automated my side of it. The longer argument - what is automatable, what is not - is a post of its own.
• On-call harness - I was tired of on-call at work, so I built a harness that automates on-call for my team, and it could work for any team at Amazon. An agent investigates issues, dedupes them, and only pulls me in when something actually needs my attention. My on-calls are much better now. It is an internal tool, so I can't share details - I am just surprised it did not exist already.
• Room automation with ESP32 - in college, around 2017-2018, we wired an ESP32 microcontroller into our room's switchboard and controlled the switches from a phone. This was before the smart-home wave. A couple of years later, when every new construction started advertising smart homes, we wondered why we had not turned it into a product. We never did - we were just college kids having fun.