Copernicus by Jan Matejko (1873)

Shawn K

Full-stack engineer
delivering creative internet experiences
for the world's leading brands
for over 21 years

Interested in:

superintelligence, futurism,
next-gen software architecture,
AI philosophy, naturalism, homesteading.

linkedIn         substack         resume


Selected Projects

FrameVR.io link

FrameVR, browser-based metaverse. Built full stack subscriptions system resulting in tens of thousands MRR. Built an in-world AI-assistant NPC with FAISS RAG vector search and langchain. Designed and maintained GCP infrastructure. Lead DevX and documentation improvements. Had creative input across the full stack. Designed and implemented user experiences in vue/vuetify. Built avatar customizer experience. (2024)

Bermeo Heights Express link

Bermeo Heights Express is a scenic and meditative VR train ride experience taking you through procedurally-generated lowpoly environments inspired by the beautiful countrysides of Northern Spain's Basque Country as well as the Pacific Northwest United States. Self-produced and self-released on multiple platforms to 5-star ratings. Highly optimized to achieve long-running 60fps performance on low-end 2017-era mobile VR hardware. Features an exclusive 5 minute guided meditation by Cole Chance you can follow along with on the radio, or you can just get cozy to the rhythmic sound of the tracks while watching the countryside pass by. (2017)

TravelOregon link

Backend engineer on the team that built the webby-award nominated official Oregon state tourism site, traveloregon.com. (2012)

CIS.US link

CIS or CISSDM (pronounced system) is an SD-WAN managed systems provider. Built dashboard management and reporting software integrating with over a dozen telecom APIs (verizon, ATT, Tmobile, Cisco, Meraki, etc) for clients including Starbucks, 24 Hr. Fitness, Carhartt, State Farm and more to manage their networking and telecom infrastructure. (2020)

SMART Clinical Trials

Built an IVR phone screener system as an independent consultant that the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies use to pre-screen and match thousands of patients a day into participating clinics for clinical trials around the world. (2016)

Leupold & Stevens link

Brought Leupold & Stevens sporting optics company into the digital age converting their technical IP into usable databases powering their web apps. (2013)

Real Estate Title Signing App

Developed form-building and e-signing app used to close real estate title deals as an independent consultant. Used by clients like Navy Federal Credit Union. Custom API integration with CRM platform. Handles tens of millions of dollars in daily transactions. (2018)

Nike link

Backend engineer on the team that created an internal Nike employee metrics and shoe ordering app used nationwide in stores that sell Nike running shoes. (2013)


Recent Experiments

Vibecoding Our App Idea #1

Bunna link

If we selected random pixels on a grid to be filled in, we would get something that looked like TV static most of the time. But some arrangements of the pixels would be recognizable forms. Bunna is a latent space visualizer that explores concepts of computational time and combinatorial possibility. 100% AI-generated (2024)

Area / Volume Visualizer

AI code generation experiment to visualize areas and volumes in human terms rather than abstract terms. (2025)

Circadian link

Circadian is a minimalistic raw javascript that animates background and foreground colors of elements on a page according to a time and place on earth. 100% AI-generated codebase. (2024)

Colorpad link

What if your highlighter marker could export JSON? Colorpad is a 100% AI-generated codebase to explore this. (2024)