Lumen
A study workspace that turns lectures into searchable notes with local transcription, hybrid search, and a source-citing assistant.
- Next.js
- React 19
- Supabase
- Whisper
- MCP
// software engineer · sydney
I’m Sam Young, a software engineer building fast, useful products for the web, front to back.
Selected work
The JARS Crew
A motion-led marketing site for a four-person product studio, with typechecking, linting, and tests guarding every merge.
- Vite
- React 19
- Tailwind v4
- Motion
h-alter
A CLI that fits an agent harness, including docs, hooks, skills, and guardrails, to an existing repository and its tooling.
- TypeScript
- Node
- CLI
Rankwire
A personalised engineering-news feed that learns from every vote.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Prisma
- Postgres
Northward
A browser-hosted ASCII horror roguelite with a deterministic Python engine, a Preact terminal client, and WebSocket play. It is still being readied for release.
- Python
- Preact
- FastAPI
- WebSocket
// about
I build the whole thing, front to back.
I work across the stack, turning rough ideas into focused products. That means shaping the interface, data model, backend, and path to production instead of treating them as separate jobs.
I like code that ships, systems that stay understandable, and fixes that remove a recurring headache. Side projects are where I test the stranger ideas.
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node
- Python
- FastAPI
- Postgres
- Astro