Principal Engineer & Architect at Recharge · Owner of Bearded Giant LLC
Based in Philadelphia, PA
I have been building backend systems for 25+ years. My professional work (Distributed Systems, Auth, Scale) happens in private repositories.
My public GitHub is more akin to my workbench. It is where I build the tooling, frameworks, and automation that allow me to manage that complexity. My personal focus is on Developer Experience: if a workflow has friction, I script it away. I never want to repeat myself for daily actions...I'm lazy in a good way I guess.
These are the repositories that actually power my day-to-day. They aren't polished products...they are the raw tools I use to handle many projects and initiatives in my day-to-day. These I use every.single.day.
| Repo | Category | The Role it Plays |
|---|---|---|
| giant-tooling | Automation | Git worktree lifecycle management, my personal workspace/scratch directory isolation, and full-text archive search. The system that keeps multi-branch, multi-project development fast and organized. |
| claude-code-config | AI Config | My personal custom configurations to align Claude code with my specific architectural patterns and requirements. I read and write a lot of docs, and this is how I do it. |
| Do-It.nvim | Neovim | My daily driver for todos, notes, even seeing my calendar. I don't leave the terminal to track tasks it's all here. |
| giant-ai | Python | An open framework I built to integrate AI tools directly into my backend stack. Was more of a proof that you didn't need to pay for Cursor. It's there if you are curious. |
| mdlive | Rust | Live markdown viewer and workspace organizer (of sorts) that can be used to read and organize your md files (user created or AI). Point it at a file or directory, get instant rendered preview in the browser. |
I live mainly in the terminal (Tmux + Neovim). Beyond the workflow scripts above, I maintain several plugins to fill gaps in the ecosystem.
| Plugin | Language | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| bearded-giant-tmux | Lua/Bash | My personal tmux theme. It's a hodgepodge of some other tmux themes I liked and a lot of customized scripts and things like my calendar and Do-It.nvim integration |
| giant-ai.nvim | Lua | Native Neovim integration for the giant-ai framework |
| mark9.nvim | Lua | Minimal, fast file marking like marks and coupled with Harpoon-like searching |
| dap-logger | Lua | Debugging context logger to capture state without pausing execution |
Stacks:Bash, Python, Node, Lua, Golang, Rust
Infra: Nginx, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Kubernetes, GCP