Thomas DeVito · Brooklyn, NYC · Freelance Full-Stack Engineer
I'm a senior independent software engineer with 10 years of experience building custom software, including mobile and web apps, payment systems, and AI-integrated products. I help founders, small businesses, and individuals turn ideas into working products, from early prototypes to launch.
Explore the products, then open “How I Built It” to see the technology I used and how it works together.
An AI you can actually call. Ask about my work, follow your curiosity, and hear responses flow back in a natural, real-time conversation.
I built Victoria with Node.js and Express, connecting Twilio phone audio to OpenAI over WebSockets. I used bidirectional audio streaming, speech detection, and interruption handling to make an ordinary phone call the interface.
Speak a question and watch the answer take shape. FlowPath pairs voice-led search with interactive visuals, source-linked research, and paths for deeper exploration.
I built FlowPath with Next.js and React, using WebRTC for GPT-Live audio and a research backend for results. I render cards and comparisons with OpenUI, animate transitions with Motion, and validate visual data with Zod.
Turn less phone time into a challenge you can actually track. Shared vows, screenshot proof, and live group rankings make personal intentions visible and measurable.
I built FlowTime as an installable PWA with Expo and React Native Web. I used Firebase to synchronize vows and rankings, Google Cloud Vision to extract screenshot evidence, and optional Stripe pledges to connect outcomes to charitable donations.
Turn today’s headlines into AI artwork. Pick a story and a visual style, then create an image and caption to download or share.
I built HeadlineHarmonies with Next.js, connecting Google News RSS to OpenAI image generation. I added a vision-aware caption pipeline, native browser sharing, and download fallbacks so the artwork can move into other apps.
Describe a mood, name a favorite film, or ask for an overlooked gem. FilmPulse turns the conversation into movie picks with useful details and viewing options.
I built FilmPulse with Next.js, combining OpenAI Responses with TMDB search, taste analysis, and candidate reranking. I used SSE to stream the conversation alongside movie cards, with filters for theaters, streaming services, and rentals.
A more thoughtful news feed. Discover stories, follow curious people, and exchange perspectives through article discussions, community flags, and a deliberate read-before-share design.
I built GoPulse with Angular and Ionic, using Firebase authentication and Firestore subscriptions to keep feeds and discussions current. I used Capacitor and Cordova to extend the same codebase toward mobile packaging.
Bring two sides into one shared deal room. FairDeal turns buyer and seller inputs into explainable price ranges, negotiation drafts, and a clear, non-binding recap.
I built FairDeal with Next.js, using Prisma and PostgreSQL to store shared deal rooms. I used server-side OpenAI Responses for structured analysis and Zod to validate price ranges, uncertainty notes, and negotiation drafts.
A Solana devnet experiment in programmable baskets: combine tokens into a single composite, then explore how minting and redemption connect it to the underlying assets.
I built Blndr’s on-chain basket ratios, minting, and redemption in Rust with Anchor. I used Next.js for the wallet interface and program-derived vaults to hold the SPL tokens backing each composite.
Your channels, your queue, your attention. A personal YouTube client with chronological uploads, Watch Later, saved progress, and a remote-friendly Fire TV experience.
I built GoTube’s player with React and TypeScript, using Cloudflare Workers to connect YouTube data to Supabase and IndexedDB to cache the library. I adapted the same interface for Fire TV remotes with an Android WebView wrapper.
Choose your shows, follow the newest episodes, and return to the exact place you paused. A focused RSS player built around your own library.
I built GoPod with Next.js to parse RSS feeds server-side, plus React and the Media Session API for persistent audio and system controls. I used browser storage for progress and JSON backups to make the library portable.
An experimental market for content credibility: creators publish a post, participants take opposing validation positions, and on-chain pools determine how rewards are distributed.
I built the protocol’s on-chain posting, long/short pools, threshold-based resolution, and reward claims in Rust with Anchor. I used Vue 3 for the wallet-connected market browser, with Bundlr and Arweave handling media uploads.
Look inside the logic of a personalized feed. Hyper_Rank turns shared interests into ranked discoveries and exposes the users and scores behind each recommendation.
I built Hyper_Rank with Python’s standard library, combining collaborative filtering, popularity tiers, weighted user similarity, and logarithmic scoring. I exposed the contributing users and scores behind each recommendation so the ranking is easy to inspect.
Core skills
What could I build for you?
I’ve always felt a tension between the engineer and the artist in me. Software engages my love of ideas, systems, and invention, while film and music move me on a deeper emotional level. The beauty, meaning, and emotional power of a great film or piece of music can change us forever, in ways big and small.
For years, I’ve felt torn between coding and filmmaking. I still live with that tension, but there’s no rule saying a person can’t excel at both.
The software projects above reflect my creative intellect; these screenplays express my emotional and spiritual life.
01 / Talent, obsession & the lives we imagine
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A successful tech executive becomes obsessed with a young software prodigy whose effortless brilliance and uncanny good fortune challenge everything she believes about talent, success, and the life she should have had.
Amanda Featherstone is a highly successful tech executive who has built her life around discipline, sacrifice, and hard work. Confident in her place within Manhattan’s elite tech world, she believes success can ultimately be explained by effort, competence, and good decisions. That certainty is shaken by the arrival of Tamsin DeBari, a twenty-six-year-old software engineer whose extraordinary talent appears almost effortless. Amanda finds herself instantly drawn to and fascinated by Tamsin. Though Tamsin never finished high school, she possesses a remarkable ability to reduce complex technical problems into elegant, deceptively simple solutions. What begins as professional curiosity soon becomes something far more personal as Amanda struggles to understand how one person can seem so naturally gifted, so casually successful, and so consistently fortunate.
As the summer unfolds, Amanda becomes increasingly preoccupied with Tamsin’s life. Each new discovery only deepens her fixation: a childhood spent surrounded by mathematics and computer science, a career marked by extraordinary achievement, and a series of seemingly impossible escapes from disaster. Yet the closer Amanda gets to her, the more complicated the picture becomes. Beneath Tamsin’s brilliance and apparent good fortune is a young woman haunted by her own dissatisfaction, convinced that her life has somehow fallen short of what it could have been. While Amanda sees someone blessed by fate, Tamsin increasingly sees herself as another person whose life has drifted away from the future she once imagined.
Their paths become increasingly intertwined through a pair of company retreats in the Catskill Mountains, whose mystical, almost surreal beauty begins to leave a lasting impression on both women. Amid ancient forests, mysterious encounters, near-fatal accidents, and profound changes in self-perception, the story gradually expands beyond its corporate origins into something more intimate and existential. As Amanda becomes consumed by the possibility that there is a hidden pattern behind the events unfolding around Tamsin, her search for answers pulls her deeper into obsession. What begins as a story about talent and envy evolves into an exploration of luck, unrealized potential, meaning, and the stories people tell themselves to make sense of a world that often seems arbitrary. As their paths converge at Kaaterskill Falls, both women are forced to confront the distance between the lives they imagined and the lives they actually have.
02 / Technology, freedom & human connection
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A disillusioned programmer builds a device that frees people from their phones—and destabilizes the world built on their attention. What begins as a personal awakening becomes a fight for the future of human connection.
Sarah Fiore is an undervalued programmer drifting through a life of unfulfilled potential, secretly carrying the guilt of her best friend Julia's overdose decades ago. Her stagnant reality is shattered when a concussion triggers a vivid, otherworldly dream, fulfilling a prophecy Julia made the night before she died. Waking with a newfound clarity and a technical blueprint, Sarah recruits her estranged friends, Terri and Nicole, to build the "FlowBand," a wearable device designed to sever the modern compulsion for digital connectivity. Fueled by intuition rather than business strategy, Sarah's mesmerizing, intense salesmanship turns the device into a global phenomenon, liberating millions from their screens.
However, the FlowBand's massive success triggers unintended chaos. As people reclaim their attention, Big Tech revenues plummet, crashing the stock market and splitting society into two hostile camps: those who have "woken up" and those financially devastated by the collapse of the attention economy. While powerful corporate enemies launch legal, public, and reputational attacks, Sarah finds herself increasingly alienated by her own high-status success. Realizing that disconnecting from the digital world was only half the battle, she rejects the trappings of wealth, symbolized by her choice of cheap water over luxury brands, and seeks a way to sustain a community that is both technologically advanced and spiritually grounded.
The journey leads Sarah to the Canadian wilderness, where a brush with the harsh realities of off-grid survival convinces her that humanity cannot simply regress to nature; it must power its way forward. After discovering a brilliant but discredited engineer with a prototype for a safe, small-scale fission reactor, Sarah gambles her fortune on a radical pivot. She moves to establish a self-sustaining eco-society powered by this new energy, setting the stage for an ultimate confrontation between her budding egalitarian utopia and a desperate, capitalist "Old World" that wants her technology but fears her ideology.