Software Architecture Portfolio
Selected work across web applications, cloud solutions, developer tooling, and open-source contributions. Demonstrating practical architecture and engineering patterns.
Frogsfolly.com Main
Frogsfolly.com is the original website I created in 1999 when learning web technologies.
Travel Frogsfolly
A website with places we have traveld with a few pictures and descriptions of the highlights. The site is built with Web Project Mechanics CMS
JM Shaw Minerals
A website for a collector of fine gemstones. Uses Web Project Mechanics CMS and some custom code for tracking each item in the collection.
Control Origins: Innovative Tech Solutions
Control Origins empowers organizations with cutting-edge technology solutions to drive value creation and achieve business goals. Our expertise helps streamline operations and align with regulatory requirements.
Data Analytics Web Project Manager
DAWPM transforms CSV data into interactive visualizations, pivot tables, and detailed analytics. Built with ASP.NET WebForms 4.8 (VB.NET), featuring a modern Webpack build system, Bootstrap 5.3, DataTables 2.3, D3.js/C3.js charting, and PivotTable.js with drag-and-drop analysis.
UISampleSpark: Seven UI Paradigms, One Backend
UISampleSpark compares multiple frontend approaches — MVC, Razor Pages, jQuery AJAX, React, Vue, htmx, Blazor, and SPA — all running against the same .NET 10 REST API. Originally a simple MVC CRUD demo, it has evolved into a living reference for modern UI architecture decisions with Docker containerization and Bootswatch theming.
Mechanics of Motherhood: Recipe Management Platform
Mechanics of Motherhood is a modern recipe management platform for busy working mothers. Built with React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and Shadcn/ui, it offers 108+ curated recipes with smart search/filtering, PWA offline support, and data from the live RecipeSpark API.
PromptSpark
PromptSpark.Chat is a real-time, workflow-driven chat application built with ASP.NET Core, SignalR, and Adaptive Cards. Users interact with branching multi-step workflows through conversational UI, with optional AI-driven responses via IChatCompletionService.
ReactSpark
A production-ready developer portfolio built with React 19.1, TypeScript 5.9, and Vite 7.0. Features SignalR real-time chat with AI personalities, live weather widget with Leaflet maps, RSS feed integration, dark/light theming, admin panel, and dual deployment to Azure Static Web Apps and GitHub Pages.
PrismSpark: Advanced C#/.NET Syntax Highlighting Library
PrismSpark is a high-performance .NET 10 library that ports PrismJS for server-side syntax highlighting. Features a plugin system (line numbers, copy-to-clipboard, toolbar), hook-based event system, theme engine with CSS generation, and ASP.NET Core MVC integration supporting 20+ languages.
WebSpark.ArtSpark
WebSpark.ArtSpark is a .NET 10 solution providing a complete client library for all 33 Art Institute of Chicago API endpoints plus an AI chat system with four personas (Artwork, Artist, Curator, Historian) powered by Semantic Kernel and GPT-4o Vision. Includes demo web app, console app, and user collections via ASP.NET Core Identity.
TailwindSpark: Tailwind CSS React Showcase
TailwindSpark is a React 19.1 TypeScript monorepo showcasing Tailwind CSS v4 with the new @theme directive and design tokens. Built with Vite 7.1, Turborepo 2.7, and Vitest 4.0, it features showcase pages for dashboards, e-commerce, marketing, and analytics with WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
Git Spark: Advanced Git Repository Analytics Tool
Git Spark is an npm CLI tool and Node.js library that analyzes Git repository commit history to provide insights into contributor activity, code changes, and development patterns. Generates interactive HTML reports with charts, plus JSON, CSV, and Markdown exports.
WebSpark Bootswatch Theme Integration Library
WebSpark.Bootswatch is a .NET Razor Class Library (NuGet package) enabling seamless Bootswatch theme integration into ASP.NET Core applications. Version 2.0+ targets .NET 10 exclusively, featuring dynamic theme switching, light/dark mode with auto-detection, tag helper support, and high-performance StyleCache caching.
TeachSpark: AI-Driven Educational Platform
TeachSpark is an LLM-powered educational platform built with .NET 10 MVC and a Webpack 5 frontend build system. It provides adaptive learning with personalized content delivery, interactive curriculum with real-time feedback, progress analytics, and comprehensive code quality tooling (ESLint, Prettier, Husky).
WebSpark.HttpClientUtility
WebSpark.HttpClientUtility is a drop-in HttpClient wrapper for .NET 8-10+ with Polly resilience (retries, circuit breakers), response caching, correlation IDs, and OpenTelemetry tracing — configured in one AddHttpClientUtility() call. Includes a separate Crawler package for web scraping. 237+ unit tests across 3 frameworks.
MuseumSpark: AI-Powered Museum Trip Planner
MuseumSpark transforms the Walker Art Center Reciprocal Program membership list (1,269 museums) into an intelligent travel planning resource. Features priority scoring by artistic strength, smart city-tier clustering, visit duration estimates, and a multi-phase data enrichment pipeline using Wikidata, Wikipedia, and museum websites.
PHPDocSpark: PHP Documentation Platform
PHPDocSpark is an open-source PHP 8.2+ documentation and data exploration platform with a Vite 7.1 asset pipeline. Features include Markdown documentation viewer with full-text search, CSV data analysis, SQLite CRUD operations, GitHub API integration, Chart.js visualizations, and Azure Pipelines deployment.
DevSpark: Constitutional AI Governance Framework
DevSpark is a standalone AI-assisted development framework that extends Specification-Driven Development with constitution-based PR reviews, codebase-wide compliance auditing, adversarial risk analysis, brownfield constitution discovery, and adaptive lifecycle management. DevSpark makes project constitutions valuable throughout the entire development lifecycle — from greenfield planning through continuous constitutional governance.
SupportSpark: Compassionate Support Network Platform
SupportSpark is a privacy-focused web application designed to help individuals maintain supportive networks during challenging life moments. Built with React 19, Express 5, and TypeScript, it provides a calm, structured platform for sharing personal journey updates with threaded conversations.
DocSpecSpark
Documentation-driven specification system for turning architectural intent into implementation context.
TexEcon
Texas economic analysis and commentary site delivering expert insights on the Texas economy, built as a static React application with build-time content integration from the WebSpark API.
ApiSpark
Modular ASP.NET Core backend platform consolidating multiple low-volume APIs into a single Azure-hosted service, serving as the centralized API layer for the Make Bold Spark portfolio.
WebSpark
Comprehensive .NET ASP.NET Core MVC suite of seven modular applications — PromptSpark, RecipeSpark, TriviaSpark, WebCMS, AsyncSpark, Admin, and Identity — demonstrating modern enterprise web architecture with AI integration.
AsyncSpark
Production-ready reference implementation demonstrating enterprise-grade asynchronous programming patterns in .NET 10, built as part of the Make Bold Spark portfolio.
FastEndpointApi
Comprehensive demonstration of the FastEndpoints framework for ASP.NET Core, implementing a Person Management API using the REPR (Request-Endpoint-Response) pattern.
KeyPressCounter
Lightweight Windows system tray utility monitoring keyboard and mouse input activity alongside real-time system performance metrics and usage statistics.
InquirySpark
Modern .NET 10 unified survey, inquiry, and decision-management platform consolidating multiple legacy applications into a single ASP.NET Core MVC workspace.
GitHub Stats Spark
Automated GitHub profile statistics generator with AI-powered repository analysis, SVG visualizations, and the pipeline that feeds live repository data to this site.