Software engineer based in Atlanta. Lately I've been building small instruments: single-purpose tools that answer one question and then let you close the tab.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| on-the-clock | A fantasy draft board built from your league's actual lineup. Value over replacement against its real roster shape, cost of waiting from public ADP, and a phone-first tracker that follows the live ESPN feed. Python does the thinking, the browser draws the board. |
| self-drawing-svg | Blueprint plates that draw themselves in on view, develop to cyanotype on hover, and trace their own most meaningful line. Deterministic linework, and all of the motion is CSS. |
| appear-on-scroll | Reveal elements as they enter the viewport, with a slide that knows which way you're scrolling. IntersectionObserver, zero dependencies, about 2.9 KB gzipped. |
| overflow-x-culprit | A Chrome extension for the mystery horizontal scrollbar. It outlines every element actually causing it and ignores the ones that only look guilty. |
| skills | The Claude Code skills I use every day, cut down to the ones that make sense on someone else's machine. Nothing in it calls a metered API. |
At Amazon I'm the front-end technical lead for a React app 68,000+ people use every day. The work I'm proudest of there is the unglamorous kind: unifying three design systems into one across 20 repositories, reducing my team's average CI/CD build time by 65%, and taking a Babel config from 276 lines to 40. None of it was assigned, but it compounds.
The long-form versions, tradeoffs included, are on davemaynard.dev.