Case studies

Production systems,
not portfolio theater.

Selected work across AI, dev tooling, software architecture, software development, and product execution. Each case study focuses on the problem, the decisions, the system, and what changed.

Work

May 2026Featured

NRRV: a reality-driven product-development ecosystem

A founder-built, open-core platform that makes the feedback loop the architecture: a governance framework, an execution methodology, and a multi-provider AI engine, all unified by an event-sourced signal bus.

TypeScriptNode.js 24React 19InkZodNext.js 16

September 2025Featured

LLM.Info: Directory, LMS, and Community for the world of AI

A production platform pairing a structured, searchable catalog of AI models, apps, and tools with a full learning-management system, an educator marketplace, and a moderated community, built end to end.

Next.js 16React 19FastAPISQLAlchemy 2.0 (async)PostgreSQLRedis

Deployed for Multiple Clients

Outreach and Relationship Manager (CRM/Email Campaign Platform)

A robust integrated marketing platform: multi-provider campaign sending and automation on one side, a full CRM with deal pipeline, lead scoring, and lifecycle automation on the other, supporting 500K+ contacts and scaling.

FastAPISQLAlchemy 2.0 (async)React 19TypeScriptPostgreSQL 17Redis

Commercial Real Estate Client

Property Listing Plugin for WordPress

A comprehensive Divi 5 WordPress plugin for showcasing commercial and residential properties: interactive clustered maps, Chromium-rendered PDF brochures, PDF legal disclosures, agent listing profiles, native field editor and pluggable S3/B2/R2 storage with automatic image optimization, backed by an extensive set of visual builder modules.

WordPressDivi 5ReactTypeScriptLeafletPuppeteer

Projects

Things I'm building, things I've shipped, and the occasional gist worth sharing.

LiveFeatured

YAJ.net: this website

The portfolio and consulting site you're reading now: a Next.js App Router build with an MDX content system, build-time search, and a hand-tuned design system.

next.jstypescripttailwind

Shipped

Portable Dependabot bootstrap

A single bash script that auto-detects a repo's ecosystems (npm, pip, docker, github-actions, and more) and writes a sensible .github/dependabot.yml. Drop it into any repo.

githubcishell