What I Build
Dory
PyPII wanted AI agents to remember things more like a person and less like a notes folder. Dory gives them a memory graph where old facts decay, corrections attach to what they replaced, and nothing important disappears into a flat text dump.
pip install dory-memoryPyPI →AllergyFind
LiveMy wife has a dairy allergy, so every restaurant visit starts with the same uneasy conversation. AllergyFind is the thing I wished existed: restaurants publish their allergen info, and diners get a filtered menu they can actually trust. First customer is live in Nashville.
Elwin Ransom
LiveA local AI companion that runs on my own machine. Voice, vision, memory, web search — on hardware I own, talking through a PWA. No cloud account, no subscription, no personal data leaving the box.
Physics: A Field Guide
LiveAn upper-division physics textbook that runs in the browser. Eighty-three chapters from classical mechanics to string theory, each with interactive simulations, worked examples, and Elwin as the built-in AI tutor — all served as static HTML. **THIS WAS BUILT VERY FAST USING GENERATED CURRICULUM. IT IS IN BETA AND UNDER REVIEW**
Pellucid
LiveMy personal finance dashboard. Plaid pulls the real numbers in, Elwin does the coaching locally, and I can finally see what's actually happening with my money without handing it to another service.
FerroBot
In ProgressA ferrofluid wave pool. The simulation models spike formation and the weird behavior near the instability threshold. The next step is the coil array on the bench, where the math has to survive wiring, heat, and real magnets.
WeatherMap
LiveA navigation PWA for the days when the weather actually changes the drive. It knows what's on your route, not just what's outside your window, and adjusts your ETA as conditions shift. Installable, no account required.
A Quick Bio
I started working in a warehouse at 16. Tried college after graduating high school.. dropped out. Then a gas station, restaurants, hotels, retail. The kind of years that don’t really have a clean narrative.
I eventually tried college again - hit a wall I wasn’t ready for - and dropped out again.
I finally found success in fine dining. I climbed through it from burger joints to the real thing: places where how you hold the plate matters, where you remember who’s celebrating their anniversary and you bring the champagne out exactly right. I served celebrities, athletes, heads of state. Somewhere in there I picked up a rule I’ve never shaken: it’s all in the details.
Third try at school, I actually finished. BS in Physics, MTSU, 2019. For two years I did research in a lab trapping individual lung cancer cells with laser tweezers — focused light holding something alive, measuring how it pushes back. I also built an acoustic levitator for my capstone: ultrasonic transducers, a 3D-printed dome, hand-soldered circuits, an Arduino. It made things float with sound. I accidentally built a very weak acoustic cannon along the way. That part did not make the final presentation.
Then 2020 happened. While the world locked down I kept working — landscaping, carpentry, whatever was in front of me. Not glamorous, but honest, and quite a bit of fun.
After that I got a data science certificate from my alma mater, then spent three years at a global tech consulting firm building production AI: LLM pipelines, responsible AI evaluations, old systems dragged into the present. I mentored for the Congressional App Challenge for two years. One mentee won an internship. One won the district. Then my job moved to India, so I moved back home and went back to my roots behind the bar. A door opened at NASA. I walked through it.
My wife has a dairy allergy. During my unemployment, I had a lot of time and a problem worth solving. I built AllergyFind so she could look up a restaurant and know what she could eat before we got there. It started as a way to stay busy. Now there is a real customer in Nashville. If you think you could get some use out of it, please get in contact!
Away from the keyboard, I like taking my dog somewhere new, taking my wife on pretty dates, and shooting my bow — I’m quite good at it. I also enjoy college football and auto racing. Sometimes I’ll find a city I’ve never been to and acquaint myself, or disappear into the woods for a while.
I love to build. It’s less a hobby, more a compulsion.
Off the Clock
Archery
The dog
Range
Auto racing
Flyover
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