what i do

I'm terminal native and platform agnostic, which is to say I will work most things, on most platforms. Always looking for something stranger to work on.

My best work is in:

Automation

letting the computers do some, most or all of the work for you.

Integration

connecting things and making things connectable.

Not clear enough?

I work from the terminal and use built-in or light tools, letting me work with whatever OS you have, whatever it is running on and most things outside of that. I have over a decade of experience breaking, fixing and automating Windows, macOS and Linux, integrating APIs, applications, hardware and software, building data pipelines and keeping up with technology from all ends of the field. I am confident I can hit the ground running, lead, follow or simply get you from A to B and drop you off with a pamphlet. Whether it's getting data collected, a process automated, a robot integrated with AI or a digital mess cleaned: I can at least tell you where to start.

Python
JavaScript
Rust
Bash
PowerShell
Node.js
Express
Fastify
FastAPI
React
APIs
Webhooks
n8n
CI/CD
GitHub
Linux
Windows
macOS
Docker
PostgreSQL
Self-hosting
LLM integration
Local AI
Computer vision
Web scraping
Data pipelines
Microcontrollers
Robotics
Reverse engineering

get in touch

axel@aesv.io linkedin

case studies

A tenure packet builderBookmarking tenure packets took hours of manual work, and a revision started it over.
Automatic boot-removal dispatchBoot orders waited for whoever was dispatching to notice and retype them.
Scraping three years of towing recordsA tax audit wanted three years of records that existed one screen at a time.
Drag-and-drop access controlGranting access took a ticket and a multi-day wait.
NAO robot embodying AIThe lab's NAO could only recite scripted replies.
Recovering a fire department's call recordsThe old system went away with twenty-some years of fire calls inside.

Axel talks to computers on behalf of people.