About

I'm Devon Thibodeau, a full-stack developer in Wisconsin's Fox Valley. I build complete products — the front end, the database, the admin interface, the deployment, the DNS — and I've found that carrying the whole thing is usually faster than coordinating people who each carry a piece of it.

My day job is building a manufacturing company's internal software platform — 15+ production applications and the self-hosted infrastructure under them. That turns out to matter more than it sounds like it should. I know what a changeover costs, why the schedule lives in a spreadsheet, and how wide the gap can get between what a system reports and what is actually happening on the floor. Most people who write software for industry have never stood on a floor where the software was wrong.

Enterprise software is shifting from buy to build — AI-native applications developed in-house at a fraction of licensing cost. Five years of building end-to-end made me exactly the developer AI multiplies: specialists are expert in one layer, and since 2021 I've had to ship every layer myself, which means I can direct and verify AI across all of them.

The work shown here is what I can point at publicly. A fair amount of what I have built is client or internal work I am not free to publish, so this site shows less than I have done and proves all of what it shows. I would rather that way round.

What I care about technically is unfashionable: constraints in the database rather than the client, failing closed at trust boundaries, static files where nothing needs a server, and not adding a dependency for something a few lines can do. The interesting decisions are worth agonising over. The infrastructure should be dull.