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JUDSON

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

A working harbor for software, automation, hardware, and active experiments from Judson Systems Engineering.

Explore the harbor → Open the logbook
SCROLL TO SET SAIL HARBOR · 9 PROJECTS LOGGED SOG 4.2kt · HDG 284°

Projects, moored.

Each card opens a build log with stack notes, current status, and the next technical step.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Production
Soul & Sea Santa Barbara

A direct-booking path and owned brand home for three Santa Barbara vacation rentals.

DATA & ANALYTICS
Production
Bar Rescue Tracker

Tracks every episode, rescue outcome, and which bars are somehow still open today.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Production
The Judson Tribune

A personalized daily newspaper for a 7.5-inch ePaper display in my grandfather's living room.

HARDWARE & E-INK
Production
Tide Display

An e-ink dashboard showing live tides, weather, and the day ahead at a glance.

AI & AUTOMATION · DESKTOP
Production
Work Suite
Custom Desktop Application Builder & Launcher

Private local desktop tools for client work. Jira comparison, metrics dashboards, and task management share a Dropbox JSON data layer.

HARDWARE & EMBEDDED
Production
SoundNav

Custom firmware for a 1.28" round ESP32-S3 display with rotary encoder. One dial controls Sonos, WiZ lights, weather, and a vinyl library through a unified local bridge.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Prototype, Active Dev
Football Playbook Engine

A local-first system for modeling, validating, teaching, and organizing American football plays.

DATA & ANALYTICS
Prototype, Paused
Life System V2

Personal telemetry for habits, health, and the small systems that run a daily life.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Prototype, Paused
yogaEngine

Self-hosted class booking and membership platform replacing Acuity Scheduling. Uses the existing Squarespace iframe slots with a new src.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Placeholder
BookEngine

A future home for tracking books, reading status, notes, and queues.

Disciplines I work across.

01
Software Systems

Web apps, engines, and pipelines built to run for years.

5 PROJECTS
02
AI & Automation

Desktop tools and agents built from human specs, domain constraints, and real workflows.

1 ACTIVE SUITE
03
Hardware & E-Ink

Physical displays, controllers, and things that beep.

2 PROJECTS
04
Data & Analytics

Trackers, dashboards, and telemetry for messy real life.

2 PROJECTS
05
Simulations & Games

Toy worlds, models, and small systems for testing strange ideas.

EXPLORING
03 — THE WORKBENCH

Captain's log: work in progress.

LAST ENTRY · 01 JUL 2026
4 EXPERIMENTS UNDER WAY
E1
Tide Display v2
HARDWARE / E-INK
Adding wind and a 7-day forecast band; rewriting the refresh scheduler.
BUILD75%
E2
Work Suite · Tool #4
AI & AUTOMATION · DESKTOP
Scoping the next tool in the suite: a contract-status tracker tied to the shared Dropbox data layer.
SCOPING20%
E3
Bar Rescue Tracker v3
DATA / ANALYTICS
Rebuilding on a cleaner data model with episode-level sourcing and a live still-open status layer.
DESIGN38%
E4
Logbook Agent
AI / AUTOMATION
An agent that reads project markdown and drafts the next dispatch.
SPIKE25%

The toolkit behind the harbor.

2012
First lines of code

Small scripts, strange ideas, and the first taste of making a machine do the boring part.

2016
Systems lens

Industrial systems engineering, focused on human and machine interaction. Entrepreneurship stayed in the margins, where useful trouble tends to start.

2017
Factory floor to interface

Aerospace manufacturing taught CAD, product design, dashboards, internal tools, and the difference between a neat model and a tool people keep using.

2020
Startup weather

Helped fully automate COVID-era workflows, then followed the work deeper into software: apps, dashboards, architecture, and faster feedback loops.

2025
Lab systems, personal harbor

Now building full time on software for advanced medical laboratories across the country. This harbor stays focused on personal projects, with Work Suite as the private-work exception.

2026
Home lab takes shape

The bench adds a 3D printer and hardware experiments. The personal workshop keeps the analog habits nearby: library shelves, records, film camera, sketchbook.

Still making better instruments.
05 — MAKE CONTACT

Have a problem worth building a system for?

Email is best for collaborations, hardware questions, system design, or project notes.

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ACCESSIBILITY

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