AI Software Design · Principal QA Engineer / SDET · Full-Stack
I spent 26 years at Autodesk, most recently shipping AI features in Autodesk Maya — the world's leading 3D animation software — that took character animation from months to days, delivered alongside an Agile team.
Since the 2026 layoffs I have been building. Not prototypes: a fleet of running products on infrastructure I operate myself — multi-tenant auth, per-tenant data isolation, RAG over customers' own records, CI, TLS, mail, monitoring, and the deploy tooling underneath all of it.
evomedia.net is my personal site and it is the current answer to "what are you doing now?"
evo.zscripts — one-word commands for multi-project development, built for the case where an AI agent would otherwise burn its context window on SSH plumbing and Docker output. zdeploy myapp, zrepair myapp, zstart myapp. Measured at ~26,500 tokens saved per active development day. Tested under Pester.
evo.locate — self-hosted IP geolocation. No account, no API key, no per-query cost, and no visitor IP ever leaves the machine. Drop-in for ip2location's free tier: same JSON field names, repoint the URL. Built after pricing the paid options and realising a 140 MB file answers the question.
Both exist for the same reason: I would rather build the small thing than rent it, when building removes a dependency, a cost, and a privacy problem at once.
Most of what I work on is commercial and lives in private repositories — an EHS compliance platform, a legal-mail service, a construction-code assistant, a quoting product, and the multi-tenant platform they all run on. The work is described, with architecture and screenshots, at evomedia.net.
Happy to walk through any of it in detail.