~ $ whoamigreg.phillips — full-stack application developer·~ $ cat ./taglineA proud father and relentless tinkerer.·~ $ uptime8 years coding · 3 active projects · 1 one-person studio
# I'm a builder. Whether it's a physical project or a creative idea, I thrive on turning concepts into reality and finding clever ways through hard problems. I started in industrial trades, taught myself to ship software, and now I build full-stack apps, on-device tooling, and SEO sites for local businesses — sometimes all in the same week.
> I came up in industrial work, then moved into public-sector infrastructure — and that shop-floor instinct still shapes how I write code: build the thing, prove it works, ship it, repeat.
> These days I run a one-person studio out of the DFW area. I take projects from sketch to production: data model, API, UI, deploy, and the boring middle bits that make the whole thing actually hold together.
> When I'm not at the keyboard I'm with my family, working on small electronics projects, building autonomous roving ai robots (Hi Juno!) or chipping away at side projects in the evenings.
Flo is the SaaS platform I lead development on at Hardin and Associates Consulting. Built for a regulated industry — mobile-first for field work, with a full web dashboard for office staff.
Juno is a home assistant robot built on a mecanum-wheel chassis with a Raspberry Pi 5 brain. Four ToF distance sensors and a 9-DOF IMU ride on an I2C multiplexer, a hardware-PWM pan-tilt servo head carries the camera, and voice chat runs through either the OpenAI Realtime API or the Claude Code CLI — so Juno can actually read and edit her own source when I ask her to. She follows people with YOLOv8, talks back through a Bluetooth speaker, and runs entirely off a 3S Li-ion pack.
Five fully-distinct storefronts (Sleek + Sexy / Violet Hour / Soft Glow / Boutique Storefront / Y2K Slay) wired to a single product catalog, theme provider, and persistent cart. Built to replace a Wix site with something that actually moves — motion-driven editorial heroes, real catalog photography matched to each product, swappable brand palettes per version, and a Convex-backed CMS so the owner can edit products and orders from a single console.
Backflow Buddy simulates an actual backflow prevention device and a working test gauge, letting technicians walk through the same hose hookups, valve sequences, and pressure readings they'd run in the field. Built mobile-first from years of hands-on field experience, not theory. A small quiz feature is included for state-exam prep, but the core of the app is the device + gauge simulation.
Built mobile-first with structured data, fast loads, and a contact funnel that actually fits how people shop for movers — see prices, see trucks, call.
./skills ├── languages/ │ ├── TypeScript — [core] │ ├── JavaScript — [core] │ ├── Python — [strong] │ ├── C# — [comfortable] │ ├── HTML5 / CSS3 — [core] │ └── SQL — [strong] ├── frontend/ │ ├── React — [core] │ ├── Next.js — [core] │ ├── React Native / Expo — [strong] │ ├── Tailwind CSS — [core] │ ├── Motion (Framer) — [strong] │ └── styled-components — [comfortable] ├── backend & data/ │ ├── Node.js — [core] │ ├── Express — [core] │ ├── Convex — [strong] │ ├── MongoDB / Mongoose — [strong] │ ├── FastAPI — [comfortable] │ └── REST + JSON-LD — [strong] ├── infra & tooling/ │ ├── Netlify — [core] │ ├── Railway — [strong] │ ├── Vercel — [strong] │ ├── Clerk auth — [strong] │ ├── Stripe — [comfortable] │ └── Linux / tmux — [strong] └── other toys/ ├── Unity3D — [comfortable] ├── Blender — [comfortable] ├── Raspberry Pi / X11 — [strong] └── Claude Agent SDK — [strong]
Done is a feature. I'd rather have an ugly v1 in production than a beautiful PR rotting on a branch.
Code that works together lives together. I'd rather repeat a bit than spelunk across six abstractions to read one user story.
I optimize for the next six months, not the imaginary scale-out three years away. The future will pick its own fights.
I write better software because I lived inside the messy industrial workflows it replaces. Specifics beat patterns.
From: you@somewhere.com To: gsphillipsjr@gmail.com Subj: let's build something
I take on a few small-batch builds a quarter — local-business sites, internal tools, mobile apps, and weird AI tinkering. If you've got something messy and real, I'm interested.