Behind REDRIXX

The path here wasn't linear.

I spent eight months unemployed after a layoff, watching the market tighten while supporting a family of five. When work finally came, it wasn't at the level I'd been at before. That gap between what I was doing and what I was capable of became the friction that sparked everything that came after.

REDRIXX started as a way to stay sharp. RaiderPal began as a personal tool to solve my own problem in ARC Raiders: item data scattered across wikis, repair costs unclear, no way to track what mattered. I built it because I needed it, then kept building because other players did too. Normalized database architecture, repair calculators, layered data relationships: the kind of systems thinking that comes naturally when you've spent years debugging integrations and building automation tools.

Haven is proof that modern tooling can challenge entrenched platforms: an Electron app with real-time voice and presence that's nearly feature-complete. These shipped because dozens of others didn't. UltimaScanner, a sleek Python parser for extracting complex hardware error logs. File Peek, a browser extension for previewing files without downloading them. Ad-hoc tools built because I needed them in the moment: parsers, automations, UI experiments. Some solved a problem for an afternoon. Others became part of my daily workflow. Most never got polished enough to publish, but they all taught me something about what it takes to ship.

The work is always in service of solving real problems. I learn by building. I build because problems exist. And I refuse to accept 'that won't work' without asking why.

Part of this is for my three daughters. I want them to see that daunting projects aren't barriers, they're puzzles. That you don't need permission to build something, you just need to start. I'm not raising consumers. I'm raising doers, builders, thinkers. People who don't just accept how things are, but ask how they could be better.

I'm looking for the kind of role where that orientation - bias to action, systems-level thinking, relentless problem-solving - is an asset instead of something to justify.