Software is my creative medium.
I’m a creative technologist and independent software builder in Lafayette, Louisiana. I turn ideas and everyday frustrations into useful software, apps, and automation.
My background is in network and infrastructure engineering. That work taught me to look past whether something runs and ask what happens when people depend on it: how the parts connect, where it fails, and what keeps it understandable a year later.
The impulse to build has been there the whole time. Entrepreneurship, for me, starts with noticing something that could be better and being willing to work on it.
How I work
I start with the frustration rather than the feature. Understand the system, find the step that should not exist, and build the smallest useful thing that removes it. Sometimes the answer is software. Sometimes the process simply needs fewer steps.
On AI
I use AI-assisted development without handing over the judgment. The result still has to be understood, tested, accepted, and useful. AI extends what I can build; it does not decide what is worth building.
On business
Reliqra, LLC owns the software products I build through it. Swamp Treasure, LLC is a separate coin shop and Reliqra’s first customer. Keeping those roles clear matters: the business supplies real problems, while each product has to earn its own usefulness.
On finishing
I separate an idea from a prototype, implemented code from accepted behavior, and a released product from a useful outcome. When something is unfinished, I say so. Speed matters; evidence matters more.
The other medium
I write country songs and fiction. The Forty-Year Exile is being prepared for release, and Blessed Are the Children is in development. A lyric, a novel, and a workflow require different kinds of attention, but each begins with making an imagined thing real enough for someone else to experience.
Python · Swift · JavaScript
Network & infrastructure engineering
AI-assisted development; judgment kept in-house
Lafayette, Louisiana