Software designer, founder, and all-around nice dude.

I’m Cary, a software designer and entrepreneur based in Milwaukee. I’m the founder and CTO of SparkForge, where you can ignite your ideas to forge the future.

Crafting a design system for a multiplanetary future

Most companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.

Introducing Animaginary: High performance web animations

When you’re building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked more realistic than reality itself.

Rewriting the cosmOS kernel in Rust

When we released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an article on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I see articles on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.

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Work

  1. Company
    SparkForge
    Role
    CTO
    Date
  2. Company
    Guardian Life
    Role
    Lead Software Engineer
    Date
  3. Company
    Seer
    Role
    Lead Software Engineer
    Date
  4. Company
    Northwestern Mutual
    Role
    Lead Software Engineer
    Date
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