Software that thinks.

I build AI-powered applications, audio instruments, and data systems. 25+ years of engineering, now focused on what AI makes possible.

AI Applications Data Engineering Audio / DSP Full Stack

Recent work

Projects

CortSynth VST3 synthesizer

CortSynth

A free VST3 synth, sampler, and drum machine in one plugin. Dual-oscillator hybrid engine with physical modeling, 200+ presets, an AI tone designer, and an offline preset generator. Zero heap allocations on the audio thread.

C++ / JUCE Claude API DSP VST3
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Apartment Finder dashboard with map

Apartment Finder

An AI-powered rental aggregator that scrapes listings from Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com, and more. Gemini Vision scores photo quality and identifies flooring, natural light, and kitchen style. Interactive map + filterable dashboard with work-commute scoring.

Gemini API Python Web Scraping Leaflet
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CatfishCheck investigation interface

CatfishCheck

A self-service investigation tool for verifying online identities. Upload photos, phone numbers, social handles, and messages about a suspected scammer and get a report highlighting red flags. Includes reverse image search, carrier lookup, and a geo-verification beacon.

AI Analysis JavaScript OSINT Privacy
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Background

About

I'm Cort — a software engineer with 25+ years building systems for Fortune 500 companies and startups across finance, energy, healthcare, and marketing. These days I'm focused on what happens when you put AI at the center of an application, not bolted on as an afterthought.

AI & Automation

Building applications where Claude, Gemini, and vision models do real work — generating content, scoring data, analyzing images, and driving decisions that would take a human team days.

Data Engineering

Scraping, cleaning, enriching, and visualizing data from messy real-world sources. Turning unstructured listings, photos, and text into searchable, scored, actionable dashboards.

Audio & DSP

Real-time audio synthesis in C++ with JUCE. Oscillator design, filter modeling, physical-string simulation, zero-allocation audio threads, and shipping a full VST3 plugin.

Full Stack

End-to-end: Python backends, interactive web dashboards, REST APIs, cloud deployment, and desktop applications. Whatever the project needs to ship.

Tech I work with

Python C++ JavaScript Claude API Gemini API JUCE SQL AWS Web Scraping FastAPI React Node.js Docker Git Leaflet / Maps DSP / Audio

Get in touch

Contact

Interested in working together, or have a question about one of my projects?

Email: info@corticorp.com
CortSynth: cortsynth@corticorp.com