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Projects

Things I've built for coursework, for clients, and because I wanted them to exist. Live links where the project is deployed, source where the repo is public.

Selected work

Heartfelt: AI Letter Writing Service

2025
HA

A full-stack app that turns a few prompts about someone you care about into a finished letter. Shipped to 234 users and 7 paid orders. An Express REST backend wraps the Anthropic API with request validation so the key never reaches the browser, and Facebook Pixel tracks conversion across paid acquisition.

JavaScriptExpress.jsAnthropic APIStripeVercel

Dylan Web Design

2025 to Present
DW

Freelance practice building responsive marketing sites for local small businesses, handling client requirements through production deploy, two sites delivered. The portfolio site itself handles lead capture and quoting.

HTML/CSSJavaScriptVercel

Blackjack Strategy Trainer

2025
BS

A trainer that scores each decision against optimal basic strategy, built twice over: once as a CLI and once as a computer-vision pipeline. A YOLO model trained in Roboflow reads cards off a live camera feed and drives running-count logic in real time.

PythonOpenCVRoboflowYOLO
Private repo, available on request

Smart Product Advisor for L'Oréal Paris

2026
SP

A conversational product-recommendation chatbot built against a real client brief through the Global Career Accelerator. Every model call routes through a Cloudflare Worker proxy, which keeps API credentials off a static-hosted frontend entirely.

JavaScriptCloudflare WorkersOpenAI API

Coursework & smaller builds

NASA Imagery Explorer

2026
NI

A browser client for NASA's public imagery API, with date-range querying, a responsive gallery, and graceful handling of the API's rate limits and missing-media days.

JavaScriptREST APIsHTML/CSS

Intel Sustainability Site with Live Translation

2026
IS

A multilingual marketing site built to brief, with on-page translation so the same content serves readers in several languages without a separate build per locale.

JavaScriptHTML/CSSREST APIs

Intel Event Check-In System

2026
IE

A check-in tool for a mock conference: attendee registration, live attendance counts, and per-team totals that persist across page reloads.

JavaScriptHTML/CSS

charity: water Drop Game

2026
CW

A browser game built for a nonprofit brief, with timed rounds, scoring, and difficulty tuning, written to stay readable for the people who'd maintain it after handoff.

JavaScriptHTML/CSS

SIR Disease Spread Simulation

2025
SD

A Susceptible-Infected-Recovered epidemic model in Python with configurable population size, contact rate, and recovery period, plotted so you can watch a parameter change bend the curve.

PythonSimulationData Visualization

N-Queens Backtracking Solver

2025
NQ

A classic constraint-satisfaction solver that places N queens on an N×N board with no two attacking, using backtracking with pruning on column and diagonal conflicts.

PythonAlgorithms

Subscription Manager

2025
Subscription ManagerIn progress

A mobile app for tracking recurring subscriptions in one place, so renewals stop arriving as surprises.

FlutterDart

This Website

2025
This Website

Portfolio and contact site built on the Next.js App Router, statically rendered and deployed to Vercel on every push.

TypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSS