Computer science student, founder of DarkForge AI, and the engineer behind twelve production platforms.
I build production systems for businesses that depend on them, then open-source the tooling that made them possible.
Founder of DarkForge AI, an AI automation and product engineering studio in Orange County. Twelve platforms in production, eight internal systems, and twenty-one public repositories, every one with working code you can run.
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Agency · Live · 2026
The studio's own site, built like a product.
Fixed-scope AI, commerce and infrastructure work for Orange County operators, presented the way a real firm presents: services, process, work, insights. A static build with a lead-qualifying ROI calculator, eight SEO landing pages, a generated image world and a build step that fails on broken links or unreplaced copy.
- Role
- Design, build, imagery, deploy
- Stack
- HTML, CSS, JS, Python build, Netlify
- Outcome
- About a third of qualified leads arrive through the calculator; 24 pages; the build fails on any broken link
Commerce · Live · 2025
A Shopify storefront for a precision-machined key spinner.
Custom product pages, filtering and a mobile-first checkout for a D2C hardware brand, with Klaviyo abandoned-cart and post-purchase flows wired to Shopify events. Product photography variants came out of the image pipeline in the Systems section.
- Role
- Theme build, Klaviyo flows, catalog
- Stack
- Shopify, Liquid, Klaviyo, Stripe
- Outcome
- 98 PageSpeed; +22% cart recovery after the Klaviyo flows; 10+ SKUs
Real estate · Live · 2025
Lead generation for an Orange County brokerage.
Listings, communities, agent profiles and a spam-proof inquiry pipeline. The part most agencies skip: SPF, DKIM and DMARC hardening so inquiry emails reach the inbox instead of the spam folder, and an inquiry pipeline that stops spam before an agent ever sees it.
- Role
- Design, development, email deliverability
- Stack
- Next.js, Tailwind, Netlify, Resend
- Outcome
- 100 Lighthouse; 3.4x inbound leads; 100% of form spam blocked
Telehealth · Live · 2026
An editorial storefront for a compounded hair-regrowth prescription.
3D bottle hero, a scroll-pinned how-it-works sequence, an animated comparison table and a consultation flow that routes to a licensed prescriber. Privacy, terms and prescription disclosures were generated per state and reviewed by counsel before launch.
- Role
- Full build, motion, compliance pages
- Stack
- Next.js 14, Framer Motion, Lenis, Radix
- Outcome
- 6 pages, 30+ motion blocks, prescriber-reviewed consultation flow, compliance reviewed
AI product · Live · 2026
A private AI assistant that lives in the browser.
Slash commands, vision and PDF input, a voice mode, custom bots with their own personas, and artifacts that render HTML and SVG live in a side canvas. Built as a product rather than a demo, with your data staying yours.
- Role
- Product design and engineering
- Stack
- React, Netlify
- Outcome
- Slash commands, vision + PDFs, voice, custom bots, live artifact canvas
Telehealth · Preview · 2026
A telehealth front door for a pharmacy that has served Anaheim for thirty years.
Prescriber-reviewed treatment paths, Rx-only messaging on every page, and 3D product renders instead of stock photos. Built so the pharmacy can offer care online without pretending to be something it is not.
- Role
- Design, copy, development
- Stack
- HTML, CSS, JS, Netlify
- Outcome
- Treatment paths with prescriber review; fulfillment through the pharmacy
Commerce · Live · 2026
Pharmacy-grade supplements, in English and Spanish.
Fourteen formulas, a language switch that covers every string, wholesale inquiry for local clinics, free pickup at the counter, and real photography from the store instead of renders.
- Role
- Design, development, photography direction
- Stack
- HTML, CSS, JS, Netlify
- Outcome
- 14 formulas; full EN/ES; wholesale and local pickup flows
WebGL · 2026
A real-time solar system you can fly through.
Free-fly between planets or take the narrated tour from the Sun outward. Click any planet to inspect its atmosphere, gravity, day length and orbit. Bloom, a starfield and an ambient soundtrack make it feel like the real thing.
- Role
- Everything
- Stack
- Three.js, WebGL, JavaScript
- Outcome
- Narrated tour, orbit controls, per-planet data, ambient audio
Game · 2026
An arcade shooter written from scratch on Canvas.
Deploy, hangar, upgrades and trophies, with keyboard and mouse controls and a hand-written game loop. No engine, no framework, no bundler: one page and a lot of trigonometry.
- Role
- Everything
- Stack
- Canvas, JavaScript
- Outcome
- Game loop, hangar and upgrade system, trophies, keyboard + mouse
The systems behind the agency.
Internal tooling built so fixed ship dates hold: the parts of delivery that are the same on every project, automated once and reused everywhere. Numbers are from production.
AI Support Agent
Claude agent with Stripe and Shopify tool calls for refunds and orders, a pgvector knowledge base, and a structured handoff to a person when confidence drops.
ROI Calculator
Three sliders to annual savings in real time on darkforgeai.com. Dependency-free and under a kilobyte of logic.
Product Image Pipeline
Batch product variants from one photo: pixel-level color detection, region isolation, gradient interpolation and precise text rendering.
Lead Sourcing Stack
Scrapers, model-driven enrichment and browser automation feeding a deduplicated list of qualified leads. Bootstrapped DarkForge to its first ten clients.
Multi-Domain Infrastructure
One-command deploys and hardened hosting across twelve domains on three DNS providers: records, SSL, security headers, environment isolation.
Email Deliverability Audit
Pulls live DNS for a whole domain portfolio, validates SPF, DKIM and DMARC, scores deliverability and writes a graded Markdown report.
Compliance Page Generator
Vertical-aware privacy, terms and disclosure pages with state-by-state additions, generated per client site and reviewed by counsel before launch.
AI E-Commerce Platforms
Compliance-ready storefront delivery for wellness, retail and regulated verticals, where code, copy and legal pages are model-assisted and reviewed by people.
Twenty-one public repositories, written to be run.
Security tooling, systems software and computer science depth, all on github.com/forgehk. No tutorials and no forks. The flagships ship with test suites; the rest are coursework and experiments kept public as a record.
Student by day. Founder, engineer and occasional compiler author the rest of the time.
I study computer science at California State University, Long Beach, and I run DarkForge AI, a studio that ships AI automation, commerce and infrastructure work for Orange County businesses. Before that I was the technology and process improvement intern at Farmacia Anaheim, where I built the automation and catalog systems the pharmacy still runs on. I care about software that holds up in production: tested, measured, and boring in all the right places.
Where the work happened.
Two years of shipping under real constraints, alongside the degree. The full version is in the resume.
Founder and Full-Stack Engineer
DarkForge AI · Anaheim, California
Bootstrapped the studio to 10+ paying clients across wellness, real estate, e-commerce and telehealth. Shipped 12 production platforms, the image pipeline, the lead stack and a Claude support agent running at 99.97% uptime.
Technology and Process Improvement Intern
Farmacia Anaheim · Anaheim, California
AI-driven workflows and automation for the pharmacy's operations, end-to-end catalog operations across multiple product lines, international supplier coordination, and a brand identity system the store still uses.
B.S. Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
3.8 GPA. President's List, Fall 2025.
Associate Degree, Computer Science
Cypress College and Fullerton College
3.8 GPA. Completed through dual enrollment while at Western High School.
Let's build something that holds up.
Contract engineering, technical collaborations and full-time roles. Replies within one business day.