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Personal projects built outside of work - mostly to explore technologies, solve problems I ran into, or sharpen skills in areas I find interesting.

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Signal Breach

A browser-based real-time strategy prototype built around deterministic simulation, replayable battle tests, and a rugged retro tactical display. Players secure uplinks, extend radar coverage, reposition strike packages, and issue command-queued orders through a React + Canvas shell that consumes a fixed-step sim.

TypeScript React 19 Canvas 2D Vite Vitest Game Simulation

MarketLens

A complete data engineering pipeline that ingests equity, crypto, and macroeconomic data from free public APIs, transforms it through a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold), and surfaces analytics in an interactive Streamlit dashboard. Runs locally with a single docker compose up - no API keys required.

Python dbt DuckDB Polars Prefect Streamlit +2

QuarterClose

A mobile-first bookkeeping and quarter-close assistant built as a TypeScript monorepo. Implements authentication, CSV import, bank sync, transaction review, receipt handling, UK tax quarter materialisation, and export share links - with full integration and Playwright end-to-end test coverage across a NestJS backend and Next.js frontend.

TypeScript Next.js NestJS Prisma PostgreSQL BullMQ +3

Epoch

A browser-based simulation that generates terrain, founds settlements, grows trade routes, forms civilisations, triggers wars, and tracks collapse into ruin. Built as a deterministic TypeScript + Canvas system with replay controls, dynamic overlay legends, major-event callouts, and end-of-era summaries.

TypeScript React Canvas 2D Vite Vitest Simulation

Plexify

A Python CLI that organises movie, TV, and music files into a Plex-compatible structure. Infers titles and years from filenames, queries Wikidata, TVMaze, and MusicBrainz with a confidence-based matching system and a 4-level episode cache. Safe by default: all operations are dry-run until explicitly confirmed.

Python CLI pytest GitHub Actions Wikidata TVMaze

mediashrink

A Python CLI for analysing video libraries and re-encoding worthwhile candidates to H.265/HEVC with FFmpeg. Includes a guided wizard, hardware encoder detection, sample-based profile recommendations, manifest export, and conservative cleanup behaviour for batch compression runs.

Python CLI FFmpeg Rich pytest GitHub Actions

Algorithm Playground API

A FastAPI backend and React frontend for benchmarking sorting algorithms. Benchmark jobs run asynchronously via Redis and RQ, with results stored in PostgreSQL and surfaced in a Vite-built frontend. Includes bearer token auth, job tracking, comparison reporting, and a Docker Compose stack.

Python FastAPI React TypeScript Redis PostgreSQL +2

Algo-Visualiser

An interactive browser tool for visualising 7 sorting algorithms - Bubble, Merge, Quick, Insertion, Selection, Heap, and Cocktail Shaker. Built with React 19 and Framer Motion, with clean separation between algorithm logic, animation state, and UI.

React TypeScript Tailwind CSS Framer Motion Vite

SwiftSeek

A Windows desktop search application built on .NET 8 and WinUI 3. Uses Lucene.NET for full-text content indexing with a lightweight metadata fallback scan mode. Designed as a thin UI shell over a testable core search library.

C# .NET 8 WinUI 3 Lucene.NET xUnit

This Website

A personal portfolio site built with Astro 6, Tailwind CSS v4, and TypeScript - deployed on Cloudflare Workers with Git-connected builds. Features a pure-CSS crossfade slideshow, scroll-reveal animations, a scroll progress bar, and zero client-side JavaScript frameworks. The irony of listing your portfolio site as a project on your portfolio site is not lost.

Astro TypeScript Tailwind CSS Cloudflare Workers

Chess-AI

A complete chess game in Java 22, including full rule enforcement, piece movement validation, and a working two-player GUI built with Java Swing. A clean OOP implementation of classical game logic.

Java Maven Java Swing

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