Skills
Skills lists are cheap. Every capability below is tied to something I actually shipped — a product, a system, or a live service you can click through to. The throughline is a combination technology consultancies look for and rarely find in one person: the analysis to frame a problem and the hands to build the answer.
Business & consulting
Business analysis & requirements
Turn a fuzzy goal into a structured spec people can act on — the throughline across everything below. Interviews and constraints in, a plan others can follow out.
Every project→Market & competitive analysis
Read a market for its gap, not just its leaders. GenSMP is positioned against the DonutSMP economy-SMP model; Aozora against an over-priced custom-keyboard field.
GenSMP · DonutSMP benchmark→Business-model & monetization design
Design incentive systems, not just price tags — a rank ladder, sell multipliers, crates and referral loops engineered to work together as a flywheel.
GenSMP · the revenue model→Cost engineering & design-for-manufacture
Re-engineered the Aozora 69 for manufacturability — cut landed cost from ~$350 to $138 a unit without cutting the spec the buyers cared about.
Aozora · $350 → $138→Operations & go-to-market
Ran a hardware company end to end with a co-founder — sourcing, group-buy logistics, and fulfillment behind a launch that raised $231,849 in 30 days.
SalmonCat · $231,849 launch→Bilingual stakeholder communication
Living and working in Japan; comfortable bridging English and Japanese business contexts — the foundation of the Japan-market consulting track I am aiming at.
EN / 日本語→Technical & delivery
Systems architecture
Design for where a system is going, not just where it is. GenSMP’s Paper→Folia migration and Velocity-proxy topology are planned now so a 10× scale-up is a config change, not a rewrite.
GenSMP · Folia topology→Databases & data modeling
An 8-table SQLite schema with WAL journaling, connection pooling and batched async writes — built after a real production lock-up under live player load.
GenSMP · SQL backend→Performance engineering
Took generator ticking from O(all placed) to O(loaded chunks) with a chunk index — the difference between 10k+ generators lagging the server and not noticing them.
GenSMP · byChunk index→DevOps & infrastructure
Operate live Linux services — systemd units, Caddy + Let’s Encrypt, RCON, a firewall, and a disciplined staging→production, jar-only promotion flow.
GenSMP · this site→Hardware & PCB engineering
Designed the Aozora PCB in KiCad — deliberate trace routing clear of moving parts, USB-C strain relief built into the case fit, and clock placement chosen for longevity.
Aozora · the board→Full-stack product & web
Ship the whole thing, not just the spec — this site (Astro / TypeScript), the LiteralSubs learning pipeline, and a build-and-deploy chain I run myself.
LiteralSubs · this site→Languages & tools
The mix I keep coming back to: understand a system deeply, model the business around it, then ship and operate the result. That is the work I want to do at consulting scale.