projects

Reveal.js Skill

December 2025

Claude Code skill for generating professional presentations in Reveal.js (HTML presentation framework).

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Kindle Storyteller

November 2025

iOS app that generates on-demand audiobook snippets using AI. Downloads book content and auto-syncs reading position using reverse-engineered Kindle API. Swift (app) + Fastify (server) + Python (content deobfuscation).

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ryanbbrown.com

October 2025

This portfolio site. Notion → Markdown → HTML using Hugo and notion-exporter.

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Web Deckbuilding

August 2025

Sandbox environment for deck-building games with support for live multiplayer. Includes full eng pipeline (CI/CD, semantic versioning, multi-env deploys). Zustand + Redis + React. Used to help me quickly iterate on the board game I'm creating.

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NextWorkout

April 2025

Progressive web app for workout tracking with a unique UI focusing on exercise consistency. Fastify + React. Used to manage my chronic pain.

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BookRank

August 2024

Beli, but for books. Web app using Django + React + Pinecone + Digital Ocean. Unfinished due to prohibitively expensive data.

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Moodify

December 2022

Simple Spotify playlist generator based on song mood. React + Spotify OAuth + Heroku. Built before AI made it easy.

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Texas Datahack

October 2022

Data hackathon analyzing clickbait for a viral news aggregator. We won first place out of 22 teams.

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UT Grades Dashboard

May 2022

Interactive dashboard to visualize UT course grades from 2010-2022. Altair + R2 object storage for data access.

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The Analyst: Zero to Hero

November 2021

Notebook submission for the 2021 Kaggle ML & DS Survey competition, exploring the ambiguity of the "analyst" job title. Narrated as a role-playing game.

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Medium Blog

2020-2023

Various narrative articles leveraging statistics, visualization, and NLP. Published in Towards Data Science.

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MLDS Datahack

October 2021

Data hackathon analyzing song success factors on Spotify. We won first place out of 15 teams.

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Content-Based Recommendation Systems

January 2021

Independent research paper exploring recommendation based on book content instead of collaborative filtering. Focused on the 52 books I read in 2020.

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Dell Data Hackathon

October 2020

Data hackathon predicting COVID infection growth for the holiday season. We won first place out of 12 teams.

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