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I’m a DTC brand operator who helps teams execute across Shop
I’m a DTC brand operator who helps teams execute across Shop
AI first software engineer and creator
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AI first software engineer and creator
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🕹️ What happens when a software engineer misses the strange, experimental magic of the Nintendo 64 and original PlayStation era? Apparently, he builds an entirely new game console. Meet Nova64: a JavaScript-powered 3D fantasy console inspired by chunky polygons, mysterious cartridges, CRT glow, demoscene creativity, and the wonderfully weird software of the late ’90s. I designed and engineered Nova64 as an open platform where developers can create a game cartridge in JavaScript and launch it instantly—no actual plastic cartridge blowing required. 😄 Underneath the playful exterior is some seriously fun engineering: 🎮 A shared game-development API across Three.js, Babylon.js, and Godot 🧠 JavaScript running natively through an embedded QuickJS engine 🕹️ A custom RetroArch core for playing Nova64 cartridges alongside classic systems 🛠️ A browser-based studio with Monaco, hot reloading, and developer tools 🌎 3D graphics, physics, particles, shaders, audio, controllers, voxel worlds, and WebXR 💾 More than 70 playable demos and experimental cartridges 🖥️ A Mac OS 9-inspired desktop—because modern software could use more personality Nova64 isn’t an N64 emulator, and it isn’t pretending to be a historical machine. It’s a new creative platform built around a question I couldn’t resist exploring: What if the next fantasy console used JavaScript cartridges? This project brings together nearly everything I love building: games, graphics, creative tooling, native integration, web technology, nostalgic interfaces, and slightly unreasonable ideas that somehow become real products. I’m not selling Nova64 as a Contra service. I’m sharing it because it demonstrates what’s possible when creative direction and deep engineering live in the same project. If your idea sounds ambitious, interactive, technically unusual—or just a little bit weird—I’d probably love to hear about it. 🚀 Explore Nova64: https://nova64.io (https://nova64.io)View my services: https://contra.com/brendon_smith_axke294z/services?r=brendon_smith_axke294z
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✨ What could your Shopify store become? A lightning-fast custom storefront. A polished iOS and Android shopping app. An interactive product experience customers actually remember. I help ambitious brands turn Shopify into more than an online store. Using Next.js, React, React Native, and Shopify, I can create: 🛍️ High-performance custom Shopify storefronts 📱 Branded mobile apps for iOS and Android ⚡ Fast, responsive product and collection pages 🔎 Intuitive search, filtering, cart, and checkout flows 🎨 Custom interfaces that feel unmistakably yours 🌐 Interactive 3D, animation, and immersive product experiences 🔌 Integrations that connect Shopify with the tools your business depends on With React Native, your store can become a polished mobile shopping experience across both major platforms. With Next.js, we can build a modern storefront with greater creative freedom, excellent performance, and room for experiences that go far beyond a standard theme. Have a product customers need to see in 3D? Want a virtual showroom, interactive configurator, loyalty experience, custom campaign, or something that has never been built before? That’s where things get fun. 🚀 I bring 20+ years of creative technology and engineering experience to every project—from ecommerce and mobile applications to gaming, WebXR, cloud platforms, and production-ready interactive experiences. If you have an ambitious idea, let’s turn it into something fast, joyful, useful, and unforgettable. Explore my services and let’s build something great together: https://contra.com/brendon_smith_axke294z/services?r=brendon_smith_axke294z
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Website Development Backed by Real Business Experience
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Website Development Backed by Real Business Experience
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DIEM — Health & Wellness App Product Development I founded and led the development of DIEM, a multi-year health and wellness platform designed to bring nutrition, fitness, lifestyle guidance and personalized wellness information together in one experience. The idea was to go beyond a basic calorie tracker or workout app. DIEM was designed to understand the individual user—their goals, activity level, nutrition, health conditions, allergies and other profile information—and use that data to provide more relevant daily guidance. My role covered virtually every part of the product and business development process. I worked closely with professional software developers to define features, workflows, functionality, user experience, testing requirements and ongoing improvements. The developers handled the programming, while I directed what the platform needed to do and how the overall system should work. I also hired and worked with licensed dietitians, physicians and other health professionals to develop the wellness information behind the platform. That content was incorporated into formulas, rules and logic designed to provide personalized recommendations to users. DIEM included features such as personalized daily regimen items, nutrition tracking, exercise tracking, health conditions, allergies, goals, reports and wellness recommendations. Users could select goals such as losing weight, getting fit, improving overall health, toning, gaining weight or maintaining their current condition. The platform was also designed with a professional side in mind, allowing trainers, coaches and health professionals to eventually review user information, provide guidance and work more closely with their clients. Beyond the product itself, I was involved in branding, competitive research, UX direction, content development, marketing, social media, business strategy and commercialization. The larger business model included consumer subscriptions, professional accounts, corporate wellness programs and potential white-label licensing. DIEM was a substantial multi-year product-development project that brought together technology, professional wellness content, user experience and business strategy. It demonstrates my ability to take a complex idea, define how it should work, coordinate the right specialists, and develop it into a structured product with a clear path toward commercialization.
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Fullstack Dev: Expert in Ruby on Rails & Laravel
Fullstack Dev: Expert in Ruby on Rails & Laravel