BELLEVUE, EARTH / INDEPENDENT BUILDER

BUILT FOR
WHAT IF.^™*

I’m Troy. Founder, Rails hacker, and the guy who will absolutely build a machine to solve a mildly inconvenient problem.

Yes, the buttons work.
Please touch everything.

*NOT A TRADEMARK. JUST A WAY OF LIFE.

EXPERIMENT 000 / THE CURIOSITY ENGINE● READY TO PLAY

INVENTOR OS / 2.0CURIOSITY IS THE OS

ALL SYSTEMS CURIOUS20+ YEARS MAKING THINGS4 × 3D PRINTERS~50 ENGINEERS LED∞ REASONS TO TRY

01 / THE HANGAR

Strange ideas.
Real things.

A few companies. A lot of code.
Some things with actual buttons.

02 / THE SOFTWARE FACTORY

What if the factory
made software?

My fork of OpenAI’s Symphony, with specialized workers and a factory-floor console. Dispatch a demo job below. You’re the reviewer.

SYMPHONY / TROY’S CUSTOM FORK

The software factory.

INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT / NOT LIVE

00IN FLIGHT

00REVIEW GATE

00COMPLETED

NO WORK IN QUEUE

STATION / PLANNER

Planning

An agent turns a task into a scoped plan. Each column has its own worker prompt and allowed transitions.

EVENT LOG / DEMO DATA

› Factory exhibit loaded. Real orchestrator is not connected.

Built on OpenAI’s Symphony. Troy’s fork adds a Fizzy-backed state machine, specialized workers, a factory-floor console, and release notifications. This exhibit uses invented tasks and never starts agents, modifies repositories, or contacts the real factory.

OPENAI SYMPHONY → CUSTOM STATE MACHINE → FACTORY-FLOOR UI

03 / HANDS ON, PLEASE

This is not
a screenshot.

FIRMWARE / MEET YOUR BROWSER

A computer
in your pocket.
A rabbit hole
in your afternoon.

Cardtunes turns the M5Stack Cardputer into a music player. This browser edition gives you the buttons, the tunes, and a perfectly unnecessary game.

C++ / ESP32-S3MUSIC + WI-FI + CLIREAL BUTTON ENERGY

OPEN THE FIRMWARE ↗

M5STACK CARDPUTERADV / CARDTUNES

CARDTUNESⅡ 35% ▰

PRIVATE MUSIC LIBRARY

Loading the mix…

Troy’s personal collection

0:00 / 0:00RPT ALL

ESP32-S3 / INSPIRED BY THE REAL FIRMWARE● ● ●

Interactive browser recreation, not a hardware emulator. Real MP3 playback, playlists, seeking, and keyboard controls. Explore the real firmware ↗

A SMALL TASTE OF WHAT I’M BUILDING

So. Tell me about
something you built.

Meet an AI recruiter inspired by Talented. Practice answering real questions, get follow-ups, and see why demonstrated ability beats a bag of keywords.

Live GPT Realtime demo. Not a real hiring process.

04 / FIELD RESEARCH

Find dirt.
Go play.

RCMap started with a very practical question: where can I drive this thing? Explore actual community spots, right here.

05 / PRODUCTIVITY’S NATURAL ENEMY

One more
quick game.

NO COINS
REQUIRED100% PLAYABLE

06 / THE WORKSHOP

Some ideas
need a welder.

CONCEPT / LAYER-BY-LAYERWORKSHOP / PRINT

ADDITIVE CURIOSITY

From ‘what if’ to ‘hold this.’

Four 3D printers, including a Bambu H2C. Fusion 360 for sketches and models; Claude and Codex through Fusion MCP when an idea needs another angle.

4 PRINTERSFUSION 360PROTOTYPING

07 / CO-OP MODE

Better
together.

DESIREE + TROY
BUILDING A LIFE, TOO.

Desiree and I have been building things together since RepairShopr. Some of our favorite projects don’t fit neatly on a GitHub profile.

DESIREE’S FAMILY WORKSHOP / TROY’S SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

And Her Son Co. ↗

Handmade leather goods by Desiree and her son. I build tools around the craft, including Andherson Studio for imagery, review, and shop listings.

OUR PACIFIC NORTHWEST ESCAPES

Sunflower Vacations ↗

Family vacation homes, mountain air, and the details that make a place feel good to stay in. A different kind of product experience.

08 / THE SAVE FILE

Built a few things.
Learned a few things.

2025 — NOW

Talented

Co-founder & CEO

Building competency-based AI interviews and better ways to recognize exceptional people.

2017 — 2022

Syncro

Co-founder & CTO

Helped build a major RMM platform serving thousands of customers. Led about 50 engineers within a roughly 200-person company, with responsibility beyond engineering.

2012 — 2022