Case studies from my production builds — what I shipped, how it's architected, and why the decisions were made the way they were. Source code for some of these lives in other public repos; for in-flight or client-adjacent projects, this is the canonical write-up.
Me: Aaron "Carl" Lewis · Forward Deployed Engineer · ex-Accenture · ex-Microsoft (TEKsystems) · @crafty-arl
| Stack | Role | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| theKickBack — text-first venue protocol | Twilio · Cloudflare Workers · Next.js · Docker · Caddy | Solo builder | 🟢 Live (source) |
| Mitobyte App — tech community hub & directory | Vite · React · Cloudflare Pages/Workers · D1 · Fedify/ActivityPub · Crossmint | Solo builder | 🟢 Live (app.mitobyte.com · source) |
| Azure AI Foundry Practice Hub — agent patterns for Azure AI | Azure AI Foundry · Python · YAML · Azure CLI | Solo builder | 🟢 Published (source) |
| EtherithApp — mem-weaver — multi-agent memory platform | Python · CrewAI-style multi-agent · OpenAI · IPFS | Solo builder | 🟡 Paused |
Every write-up follows the same shape:
- What it is — one paragraph
- Why I built it — motivation, constraint, or client need
- Architecture — diagram + component breakdown
- Notable engineering decisions — the trade-offs I actually made
- Outcome / metrics — who used it, what moved
- What I'd change — honest retrospective