Digital Transformation · AI in Practice
Better processes. Real efficiency. Outcomes that actually matter. Follow the build-in-public journey — or hire me to bring it to your team.
A fully client-side personal finance tracker built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, and Recharts. Features category breakdowns, monthly trends, search/filter, CSV export, and a Monthly Insights view. Shipped from scratch in a single session using Claude Code.
One project shipped, one journey documented. Before starting the next one, I wanted to write down what actually changed — in my skills, my thinking, and my sense of what's possible.
The app worked perfectly on my machine. Deploying it to Vercel took three attempts, two ESLint errors I'd never seen before, and a branch confusion I should have caught earlier. Here's the actual story.
The Vanderbilt course gave us a starting point. What I did with it — the look, the features, the three rounds of iteration — that part was mine. Here's how a practical assignment became something I'm actually proud of.