Case Studies
The interesting problems are rarely the easy ones.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to solve some wonderfully complicated problems—modernizing aging applications, making sense of difficult data, automating tedious processes, and occasionally figuring out what time actually means. These are a few of those stories.

A few stories worth telling.

A career in software leaves behind more than a list of technologies. These case studies look at a handful of problems that challenged me, changed how I work, or taught me something worth carrying into the next project.

Selected Work

  • Data Visualization
  • Temporal Engineering
  • WordPress Architecture
  • Application Modernization
  • Front-End Leadership & Automation
  • Long-Term Application Ownership
Data Visualization
Turning Complex Data Into Something People Can Understand
Troubleshooting, Digital Architecture

Building interactive visualizations that turned dense application data into information people could explore, understand, and actually use.

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Temporal Engineering
When Time Has to Be Exact
UTC, TAI, J2000

Implementing precise UTC, TAI, and J2000 conversions for a scheduling system where being off by a second actually mattered.

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WordPress Architecture
Building Better WordPress Components
UI, Modularization

Creating reusable blocks, plugins and web components instead of treating WordPress as a collection of one-off pages.

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Application Modernization
Proving Modernization Was Worth It
Automation, Prototype, Modernization

Sometimes the hardest part of modernization isn’t writing the new application. It’s demonstrating why changing something that already works is worth the investment.

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Front-End Leadership & Automation
From Manual Updates to an Automated Publishing System
Publishing Systems, Automation, Leadership

Replacing a cumbersome publishing process with an automated system designed to make updates faster, safer, and easier to manage.

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Long-Term Application Ownership
Building Software That Lasts
Ownership

Building an application is one thing. Living with it, evolving it, and supporting it for more than a decade teaches you something entirely different about software.

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On the Boards

Project Management System

A lightweight project management application focused on making the work that matters easy to see—without burying it beneath layers of process, configuration, and administration.

Still Building. Still Learning.

Good software is never really finished. I use personal projects to explore ideas, test new approaches, and keep pushing beyond the problems I already know how to solve. It gives me a place to experiment, try things that may or may not work, and occasionally discover a better way of doing something along the way.

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Have an interesting problem?

ou don’t need to know what technology will solve it. That’s part of my job. If you’re dealing with an application that’s difficult to maintain, a process that should be simpler, or an idea you’re not quite sure how to build, I’d be happy to talk about it. Send me a message below or reach me directly at mitchell@betavc.com