About
Midnight Citylights is my personal software development studio — a name I operate under as a principal software engineer and independent developer.
Most of what I build is driven by a deep interest in digital art, interactive systems, and the exploration of emerging creative forms. Software, to me, is not just utility — it's a medium for expression, personal industrialization, and offers philosophical insights into the meaning of our existance.
Ethos
- Honor commitments
- Deliver excellence
- Clear and respectful business communication
- Uncompromised integrity
Experience
- Developed proprietary full scale applications from the ground up resulting in over 12 Million downloads worldwide.
- Authored and maintain hundreds of modern standard packages and tools across multiple languages.
- Built and deployed full web application and infrastructure solutions for businesses, individuals, and personal brands.
- Publish multiple major plugins in the 3D digital arts space, for Maya, 3DMax, Houdini, Blender, ZBrush, Unreal, and Unity.
- Lone wolf thought leader, standing tall and publishing against the raging tsunami.
Education
- Rhode Island School of Design BFA Industrial Design
Artistry
My engineering work serves my endeavors in emerging digital arts. Most of my artifacts live in this sphere, providing utility to digital artists — in presentation, industrialization, and generation.
I pursue philosophy on the side, and I learned that the logic of code mirrors the structures of reality. Programming, like poetry, offers a medium to attempt to express the transcendent.
This path is built from composable, precise pieces — boring on their own, but when amassed and connected they light up into something wild.
Philosophy
Writing is part of my strategic process to refine my approach. Occasionally I publish essays and formal statements exploring technology, engineering, and the deeper structures that shape them.
Absolutes
I hold strong convictions about technology and engineering, my words tend to 'disrupt' public consensus. I trust that the scale and execution of my work affirms the strength of these beliefs.
Others may hold vastly different ideas — and that is the greatest strength we have. While my conclusions are vital to my process, they are not meant to diminish anyone else, beyond disagreement. I speak in absolutes, but the only truth I know for certain is that I know nothing.
Social Inertia
- Most of what we call knowledge is a result of social inertia, not a pursuit of reality.
- All assumptions can and should be questioned. Even humanity’s most cherished truths are covered in cracks.
- The singular correct assumption is that everything we know is wrong — or, at best, a fragmented and distant allegory of something deeper.
- Those wrong via thought are wiser than those right via habit.
Shadows on the Wall
- Most tech stacks are recursive layers of bloat trying to manage bloat.
- Analytical algorithms are beasts — fractal chaos, self-fulfilling prophecies — not truth.
- Cryptocurrency is a ponzi built on financial theater.
- Structure gives language the strength to endure; untethered emotion shatters it into noise.
- Frameworks are failures to reach atomic composability — or burdens by design to monetize atomics.
- Systems that drive communication through analytics dilute humanity into pattern generators.
- Analytics reveal only mundane epiphanies.