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I'm Chase — a software engineer in Austin. I fix Wi-Fi and smart homes, plan and install lighting, and build websites for people around Austin. Same person on the phone, on the ladder, and in the code.
Austin · Georgetown · Round Rock · Cedar Park · Leander
Consulting & websites — anywhere
Five things, done properly. Most jobs start with a short call so neither of us wastes a trip — I'll tell you honestly if it's not something I should be doing.
Wi-Fi that reaches the back bedroom, and a network you don't have to think about.
One app, scenes that make sense, and nothing that needs babysitting every month.
Consulting, troubleshooting, and installation — from a plan on paper to switches on the wall.
A fast, honest site you actually own — design and build, start to finish.
Backend and AI engineering for small teams that need a senior pair of hands, briefly.
A short call or a text with photos. I'll say up front whether it's a one-hour fix or a real project — and whether it's something you should call an electrician for instead.
In person for anything with wires or walls. Remote for websites and consulting. You get an estimate before work starts, not after.
Passwords, diagrams, and account access handed over in writing. Nothing locked behind me.
Software, audiovisual work, and jobs around people's houses. Different rooms, same way of working.
A 20-minute immersive debut at a Dadageek exhibition, structured Earth → Water → Fire → Air. TouchDesigner, lasers, and projection driven by an audio-reactive feedback chain.
An agent that keeps an Obsidian vault tidy — linking, restructuring, and catching orphaned notes. A working study in retrieval and agent design, not a demo.
A condo with dozens of connected devices tripping over each other: network rebuilt, traffic separated, automations reliable again.
The lighting, laser, game and art work lives on its own page — Cyber Chase →
I've spent my career as a software engineer — backend systems, and more recently AI and LLM work. Evenings and weekends I build audiovisual performance under the name Cyber Chase: TouchDesigner, lasers, projection, and a lot of patient debugging in the dark.
Those sound like two careers. What they share is a preference for understanding a system rather than guessing at it. That's what you're actually hiring when you call about a dimmer that buzzes or a Wi-Fi dead zone — someone who will find the cause instead of replacing parts until it stops.
I'm based in Austin and work across the metro in person. Consulting and websites I do from anywhere — I'm often in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Describe the problem in a sentence or two — photos of the panel, the router, or the fixture help. I answer every message, and I'll tell you if it isn't a job for me.