Portfolio

Pricing engine prototype

Before the CRM existed I wrote a framework-free pricing engine for windows and doors: United Inches sizing that always rounds up, allowed product lines, add-on size limits, discounts and PAR pricing, with admin and sales pages ported to Astro. It later became the CRM quote builder and catalog.

One test text

A Node script that sent a single SMS through the RingCentral API. It grew into the CRM phone and text layer: click-to-call, a call log, two-way texting with live webhooks and a shared calling queue.

Repo and call center on day one

Started the app as "lead-crm-js" on Next.js and Supabase and added the call center the same day.

First live deploy, thirteen days in

First live deploy on Vercel, with the New Job flow linking jobs back to their leads.

Careers portal: six steps, then three

I turned /careers into a six-step wizard with a progress ring, emoji copy and confetti, then reworked it the same day into three calm steps with a video that stays on screen, plain icons and natural copy. Applicants book their own interviews from the same portal.

Cadences and text automation

Delay-based cadences send texts and emails, change statuses and move leads between queues, with every step logged so it never fires twice. Inbound texts run through auto-reply chains.

In-house e-sign paperwork

New-hire packets with token-signed links, signed PDFs built with pdf-lib and completion emails. Zoom interview booking with calendar invites followed on March 12.

Bubble retired

During the move the CRM answered on a Bubble-compatible /api/1.1 endpoint. Removing it ended the old app's role.

Started "Stronghold"

A multi-tenant Payload 3 and Next.js platform. Public sites resolve by hostname and admin traffic by membership.

Kernel phase 1 done

Module SDK with boundary checks at boot, a transactional outbox with event log and worker, contacts and memberships, storage and email providers, audited staff sessions, and a Docker image with web, worker and migrate roles. 72 unit and 85 integration tests passing.

Threw the kernel out

Replaced it with the clean Payload 3.87 website template and locked the scope: WordPress-style sites on their own domains, sharing one codebase.

One fork per client

Shared blocks, branding from environment variables, upstream sync, and tenants and sites on a shared Supabase project. The ERA and XRF forks started here.

The audit

I wrote a full audit of the platform. It mapped all the custom code layered over the template and found a stock seed route that could wipe every tenant and two ways to gain admin rights. I fixed those in both forks the same day and retired the fork model.

v2 foundation

pnpm and Turborepo monorepo, a headless apps/cms, the multi-tenant content model and access rules, a block library, a generated baseline migration, the tenant-isolation suite and CI. The isolation tests are never relaxed, only extended.

SDK, branding, publishing, two sites

A server-only SDK with cache tags, revalidate, preview and media handlers; per-tenant admin branding and a client dashboard; branded admin hosts; the publishing queue on Vercel Cron; live preview. ERA and XRF were ported to headless Next.js apps with content importers the same day. Fig. 2.1

Platform, tools, search and chat

Model profiles and a GPU queue, a read-only CRM data layer, typed tools behind a deterministic router with evals, hybrid retrieval with citations, ingestion with an OCR gate and redaction, and a streaming chat UI.

Model A/B and wider coverage

Switched the default model to qwen3.5:9b after an eval A/B, replaced PyMuPDF because of its AGPL terms, and added a canvassing-map tool, CRM report tools and a 156-item eval set.

Photo library pilot

Indexed company photos in place and linked them to CRM jobs. That work then moved into the CRM's own photo service.

GeoJSON Cutter

A Node and browser tool that subtracts parks, schools and excluded neighborhoods from a canvassing boundary with Turf.js, leaving one polygon ready to upload to eCanvasser. The README walks a non-developer through it step by step, and a web version runs on GitHub Pages. Fig. 4.2

Holes cut, one shape out

The output is a single territory with every excluded area cut out as a hole. Fig. 4.1

Leaflet prototype

A first canvassing map with marker clustering, property tracking and a localStorage data layer.

MapLibre and PMTiles

A second prototype that draws 1.3 million+ Maricopa County addresses as pins in the browser, with list, report and settings views.

Canvassing moves into the CRM

Canvassing pages and a knock-tracking schema, a territory drawer for drawing, editing and removing polygons, a zone picker and a satellite toggle. Zones followed on March 9.

GoKrasiva, from scratch

A new Expo SDK 57 app, mock-first, with separate shells for canvassers, sales reps and installers, live clock-in and lead submission. The bottom tab bar went through about ten designs that day, from a floating pill to an oval indicator behind the icon with the label below. Fig. 4.3

Brand color, fewer layers

A teal login screen and a brand-colored icon replaced the white-on-black K. A heatmap and knock clusters below zoom 15 were added and removed the same day; the app shows plain pins from zoom 15 up. Fig. 4.4

Ready for the Play Store

Renamed the app GoKrasiva and pointed the build profiles at the production map tiles.

First upload

The whole site in one commit: index.html, a 1,490-line stylesheet, and modules for pages, the orbit animation, sound and UI pieces, along with the VW monogram and a topographic line background. Fig. 5.1

Sphere scales with the screen

Made the rotating WebGL text sphere resize with the viewport.

Custom domain

Set up the valleywestweb.com domain.

SEO pass

Meta tags, sitemap and robots, then prerendered single-page routes so search engines can read them.

Speed pass

Minified p5.js, converted images to WebP and changed how the sphere loads so the page feels faster. Fig. 5.2

No more flash

Fixed the flash of unstyled content on first load.

Engine and a 13-section dashboard

The first commit had the whole finance engine, its tests, and 13 dashboard sections, from buy-vs-rent to a "learn" page.

One page

Collapsed the sections into a single calculator page.

Fewer, faster controls

Deleted most of the separate sections in favor of one calculator plus saved scenarios. Sliders now update a trimmed live result while charts wait, Monte Carlo moved to a worker, and share links got shorter.

Built for thumbs

Stacked the affordability gauges on phones and turned info hovers into tap-to-open popovers, because on a phone a hover tooltip vanished on the same tap that opened it.

Horizon, refinance, ZIP lookup

Added sell-in-N-years and refinance what-ifs, ZIP-code market defaults, a light and dark toggle, and a swipeable chart carousel.

Proposal

The capstone proposal letter, written for WGU's role-play scenario.

Code and notebook

Uploaded the app, the exploration notebook, the capstone document and requirements. Fig. 7.2

Portfolio polish

Added a dev container, refactored the model, popular and recommended modules, and captured the app. Fig. 7.1