Private photo capsules for your people. Collect everyone's photos, keep them hidden, and relive the moment together at a shared reveal.
Flutter · TypeScript · Hono · Bun
Elias Mawa / Engineer & maker
Calgary, ABThoughtful software.
Built for real life.
I'm Elias, a senior full-stack engineer in Calgary, AB. I build apps people live with and tools developers reach for — from the first sketch to the systems that keep them running.
01 / Selected work
Things I’m putting into the world.
Personal products, shared ventures, and useful little tools. The engineering and the experience, considered together.
Private memory that follows you across AI agents. Keep decisions, preferences, and hard-won fixes in one searchable, account-owned library.
TypeScript · PostgreSQL · pgvector · MCP
A digital wardrobe built around the clothes you own. Co-founding Fitr with Adam and Mason, with SŌEN as your personal AI stylist.
Go · Flutter · PostgreSQL · Computer Vision
Localhost, shared. Give your local app a public HTTPS link, receive real webhooks, and inspect requests from a terminal-first tunnel manager.
Go · WebSocket · Redis · CLI
The archive / Earlier explorations
Fashion Vision
2024Archived exploration
Computer vision microservice with 7-stage ML pipeline for fashion analysis. Four concurrent models for classification, segmentation, face parsing, and background removal.
Snake Game
2022A tiny but fully-playable Snake game that runs on an Arduino. Analog joystick input, 8x8 NeoPixel LED matrix display, and real-time game loop on embedded hardware.
InkByte
2021Link management platform with URL shortening, QR codes, link-in-bio pages, and geolocation analytics. Monorepo with Koa API and SSR React frontend.
Sorbet
2020A lightweight C game engine and ECS library built with SDL2. Entity-component-system architecture, custom data structures, and a snake game demo.
Shrymp
2020Paint OpenGL
2019A paint application built with OpenGL fixed-function pipeline and GLUT. 32x32 pixel canvas, BFS flood fill, HSV color system, and hand-drawn UI.
GoBox
2017Lightweight file sharing daemon for LAN transfers. Drag-and-drop uploads, password-protected links, and configurable expiration.
02 / Skills & approach
From the interface to the infrastructure.
The whole product
Interfaces that feel considered, backed by a clear understanding of the people using them. Web and mobile, from interaction to implementation.
React · Next.js · Flutter · TypeScript
The systems underneath
APIs, background jobs, and data models that hold up beyond the happy path. A practical approach to AI, search, and real-time workflows.
Go · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · pgvector
The path to production
Taking ownership of delivery: reliable releases, observable services, and migrations that keep things moving. Helping the team build with confidence.
Docker · AWS · Vercel · CI/CD · OpenTelemetry
A conversation is a good start
Have something in mind?
A product to build, a tricky engineering problem, or just a shared curiosity. I’d love to hear about it.