Independent engineer & researcherAvailable for the right problem

I make complex systems feel understandable.

I'm Shane—an engineer working where machine learning, software, and real human needs meet. I research carefully, build practically, and care about what happens after the demo.

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01 / Selected work

A few things I've
put into the world.

Projects that reflect how I think: begin with the real problem, expose the important details, then make the result useful.

01Developer tooling

Dock

Version control, built for documentation.

An early systems project exploring how technical documentation can be generated from source and tracked with the same care as code.

Systems design · C · ShellView on GitHub

docs / changelog

−installation requires manual setup

+run dock init to begin

track documentation with source

revision 18 / working tree clean

02Product engineering

OpenSurvey

Complex surveys without the complicated authoring.

An open-source, self-hosted survey platform designed around expressive logic, understandable workflows, and ownership of your own data.

Full stack · Data systems · Product designView on GitHub

Question 04What should we improve next?

IFresponse contains a suggestionTHENask a follow-up

03Machine learning

Springboard

A practical study in how classifiers behave.

An NLP classification project spanning data preparation, baseline models, evaluation, and a small interface for interrogating model decisions.

NLP · Evaluation · PythonView on GitHub

.9.6.3

observed— expected trend

02 / About & contact

Research instincts.
Engineering discipline.

I'm most useful when the problem is still a little messy.

My work moves between understanding model behaviour and building the software that makes it useful. I care about honest evaluation, calm interfaces, and failure cases that remain visible.

Research
Engineering
Product thinking