Hi, I'm Daniel Fraser
I build software for myself and others. Principal at Hyperdata Inc.
Need help? I check hello@danfraser.net
Current Project
- ppldex - AI-assisted recruiting that has the right conversation with every candidate.
About Me
- Professional dev since 2007
- Live in Vancouver, BC
- I created <yes>tag - A tool that makes it easy to create data-powered website components and add them to your site, without code, in minutes. Use it to generate production-ready web components from OpenAPI specs and design examples.
- Jamwell.ai - platform, tools, and solutions for creating custom GPTs, chatbots, and agents. (now a part of Yestag)
- I co-founded multiple consultancies including Podium Solutions, taking client from startup -> exit as co-CTO.
- I created two smart-home/short-term-rental SaaS products and ran this business for ~13 years: Easy Buzzer and EveryDoor
- Early employee at FundRazr - helped pioneer crowdfunding in the early days of social media.
- Started in the early 2000s running PPC ads, marketing websites, and a Flash forum plugin.
I'll Help You With
- Applied LLM projects such as agents, chat, generative products or features.
- Full-stack software development, solution architecture, R&D, analysis.
- Web applications, distributed systems spanning multiple technologies. Preferred current stack: Python/FastAPI and Spring Boot backends. HTMX-style and React-style frontend architectures. OpenAI-comparable LLMs and current/emerging LLM product development methodologies. Early or mature stage environments.
- Legacy support for Java projects, such as old Groovy/Grails projects, JBoss Seam, EJB, JSP, etc.
I Like
- Enthusiasm
- Moving quickly
- Ice cream
Writing
- April 15, 2025 - LLM-Assisted Coding: Elegant Architecture vs. Quick Development (Part 1)
- April 1, 2025 - From Clone to Cloud: Deploying a Wordle-style Game with Cursor and Google Cloud Run
- March 4, 2025 - I vibe coded a task-specific eval suite with Cursor to stop vibe checking my AI agents' prompts.