The person behind the code
Builder, data nerd, and independent creator based in Arkansas.
I'm Dylan — I build things with code, mostly for the satisfaction of making something that actually works. My background is in [placeholder: your background here], and over the past few years I've shifted toward building data tools, web apps, and ML experiments independently.
I care about software that's fast, private, and honest. When I build something, I try to make it genuinely useful — not just technically interesting. That usually means less abstraction, more direct thinking, and shipping things that work rather than things that are theoretically elegant.
Outside of code, I'm interested in [placeholder: interests], living in Arkansas, and thinking a lot about economic opportunity and what makes communities work. Some of that thinking ends up in my projects.
Background
Expanding the retirement simulator with scenario comparison and a Sankey diagram for spending breakdown.
Working through store sales forecasting — getting comfortable with time series methods in LightGBM.
Turning analysis projects into readable posts — findings that don't require a PhD to interpret.
Tools that are genuinely private — computation that stays on your device.
Economic data and what it tells us about place, mobility, and opportunity.
Machine learning that's legible — interpretable models over black boxes when it matters.
Building browser games as a way to think differently about interaction design.
Occasional writing on projects, data, and things worth noticing. No fixed schedule.
Where the actual code lives — most projects are open source.
Competition notebooks and public datasets from analysis projects.