Projects

I've been creating community and exciting, creative demos and interesting projects for years. Discover some of them here. Many are powered by the datasets I manage on Kaggle. You can download several of the free items associated with these projects on Gumroad.

Global Communities

Cloudinary Creators Community

A global community for developers, designers, and digital storytellers who care how visual media looks, feels, and performs on the web. Members connect on Discord, join live sessions and office hours, learn from guides and sample projects, and share creative uses of Cloudinary in the real world.

Learn more here.

Front-End Foxes, Inc.

Formerly Vue Vixens, Inc., this international nonprofit survived COVID by transforming from in person workshops to an online school; we educated hundreds of women over 5 years and have several success stories.

Learn more here.

AWS Cloud Clubs

In February of 2023 I and my team at AWS launched AWS Cloud Clubs worldwide. The program has grown immensely since then, impacting over 100,000 students in 2025 alone.

Learn more here.

Educational and Fun Demos

Tussie-Mussie Generator

Showcasing Cloudinary's image recognition capabilities, this app generates a tussie-mussie based on a selection of flowers by their meaning. Send it as an e-card!

Watch the demo here and try it yourself here.

Saree Detector mobile app screens identifying traditional South Asian textile patterns

Saree Detector App

This app was built as a demo to show how image recognition capabilities can be used for artisan textiles, to enhance connoisseurship.

Watch the TEDx talk here.

Ombromanie

Tell stories with just your hands - and use hand poses to capture them via a web app!

Visit the GitHub repo here.

PoseDance TikTok trainer app comparing a dancer's pose to an on-screen outline

PoseDance, a TikTok Trainer app

Learn how to dance like an influencer on TikTok with this web app, which uses body poses to track and score your smooth moves.

Visit the GitHub repo here.

Project Troubadour storytelling web app connecting museum objects into a narrative path

Project Troubadour: A Storytelling Web App

Created in conjunction with Microsoft and the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design - use a Museum's API to construct connected stories.

Visit the GitHub repo here.

WineUp pocket sommelier app showing wine and cheese pairing suggestions on a phone

WineUp: Your Pocket Sommelier

Wine and cheese pairings, powered by ML and the Wine Spectator API. A mobile app demo.

Visit the GitHub repo here.

Twist & Shout: Beatles Tribute App

A mobile app celebrating the Beatles with ML song generators, an album cover recreation tool, and more

Visit the GitHub repo here.

EMiLy Emily Dickinson tribute app with poetry and portrait-inspired visuals

EMiLy App: Emily Dickinson tribute app

Celebrate Emily Dickinson's oeuvre with ML-generated poetry

Visit the GitHub repo here.

MixoLogy minibar scanner app identifying bottles and suggesting cocktail recipes on mobile

MixoLogy: What's in my minibar?

Take a pic of your minibar's contents, suggest a cocktail to make, or shake the phone for an AI-generated suggested recipe!

Visit the GitHub repo here.

Well-Architected Framework coloring book pages with AWS pillar-themed line art

The Well-Architected Coloring Book

To reinforce the ideas that underpin the six pillars of the framework, here's a coloring book that will help you remember them.

Learn more here.

AWS Tarot

The companion website of a not-too-serious Tarot card deck that references AWS services

Learn more here.

Ye Glorious Historiae of Ye Cloud

A completely anachronistic journey into cloud computing topics using Bayeux imagery. Because why not.

Learn more here.