Background

I am based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This page is a factual background note rather than a memoir.

I studied at the University of Manitoba, completing a B.Sc. Honours in Psychology in 2007 and a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2013. My psychology work was in animal behavior and behavioral biology labs. That period included lake sturgeon physiological stress-response work with Gary Anderson, a PUBS 2008 abstract/presentation tied to that honours work, and a Hotchkiss Brain Institute National Neuroscience Competition finalist designation. My computer science work moved into Human-Computer Interaction research with Pourang Irani. That research produced publications at ACM APGV (2009) and IEEE PacificVis (2011).

The publication record I am comfortable claiming publicly is:

  • Effects of animation, user-controlled interactions, and multiple static views in understanding 3D structures (ACM APGV, 2009), with Melanie Tory and Pourang Irani
  • Impact of group size on spatial structure understanding tasks (IEEE PacificVis, 2011), with Melanie Tory and Pourang Irani

Since 2012, most of my work has been a mix of consulting, product engineering, and startup software. The public version of that timeline is:

  • 2012-2019: independent consulting across web apps, prototypes, and internal tools, including ScheduleAid / Reclaim.IO (2012-2013) for scheduling and cancelled-booking recovery, NuOrder (2014) for restaurant ordering/menu software, Playbook Edge, and Pray4EveryHome
  • 2014: software development work at SkipTheDishes
  • 2019-2022: software engineering at Datomar Labs across products including Brownie Points, Convai, DeutzFahr, Braise, and Shopify-related work
  • 2023-2026: engineering work on the ReLease / Cios rent deposit insurance platform, with emphasis on billing, invoice reconciliation, auditability, and payment workflows

The stacks and systems change from project to project, but the throughline has mostly been full-stack product work, architecture, and internal tooling.

My current work is centered on a private control-plane stack and the public notes and experiments around it. The core internal repos are Mesh, Orchestrator, OCC, and Console. Around that, I keep public or semi-public work in taylorsando.com, sandolab, winwar, digital-ontology, payment-ontology, community-platform, sando-tracker, learning-overlay, personal-usability, qedviz, and voice-tools.

The public focus right now is narrower than the private work:

  • control-plane tooling and knowledge curation
  • digital-ontology research
  • payment-ontology research
  • community-platform exploration
  • selected software experiments such as Sandolab, WinWar, sando-tracker, learning-overlay, personal-usability, and qedviz
  • consulting for teams working through AI-assisted development and system design

The private work is broader than what I publish, but I try to keep the public version aligned with things that can be checked in notes, repos, and published records.