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Church Grid
Members, events, communication, giving, and reporting in one calm system, so small teams stop living in spreadsheets.
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Fast, useful software people quietly rely on.
Product framing, interface design, and production architecture for teams that care how software gets built.
Open to focused engagementsToronto, Canada · 43.65° N · 79.38° W
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At a glance
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I’m Joel, a solo founder and engineer in Toronto, building my own products end to end.
I take products from first sketch through interface, data model, and the systems that keep them running. Calm UI, dependable engineering, and the small details that make software feel considered.
Now
Church Grid & Waveform Apps
Availability
Open to focused engagements
Get in touchStudying
AI agents & TanStack Start
Local time
Latest writingFable 5, Export Controls, and GLM 5.2
Toronto, Eastern time
What I do
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Product design
Frame the problem, shape the flows, and design interfaces that feel obvious.
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Full-stack engineering
End-to-end production apps: data model, API, UI, deploy, and reliability.
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AI integration
Scoped AI features and agents that earn their place in the product.
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Ongoing partnership
I stay after launch to maintain, measure, and improve what ships.
How I work
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Design and build as one
No handoff gap. The person shaping the interface is the person shipping it.
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Ship small, ship often
Real software in front of real people, improving every week.
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Sweat the last 10%
Timing, empty states, and copy are where trust is quietly earned.
Selected work
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Moment Gallery
Photography portfolio and inquiry site for Ontario event, portrait, corporate, and food work: image-first and built to book.
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Waveform Apps
Custom AI-powered web apps for teams that need speed and clean integration, from scoping through a maintained production system.
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04 / 04View all writingFable 5, Export Controls, and GLM 5.2
Anthropic's Fable 5 hit US export controls days after launch. GLM 5.2 shipped open weights in the same window. What builders should take from both.Romans 6: Dying to Live in Christ
Romans 6 on freedom in Christ: dying to sin and self so a new life can take root.The AI-Powered Developer: Building Modern Web Apps in 2026
Practical ways Claude Code, Copilot, and similar tools change shipping with Next.js 16 and React 19, without outsourcing judgment.Next step
Let’s talk.
Tell me what you’re building and what success looks like. You’ll get one reply within a day, usually with a few questions.
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