Asheville Monday Night Contra Dance
A modern community website and admin dashboard that replaced an outdated Wix site, so organizers can keep everything current without touching code.
Software developer · Asheville, NC
Robert Uhren
Software Developer & Problem Solver
I build practical software, automate tedious processes and turn complicated ideas into intuitive digital experiences.
01Selected work
Real software for real problems
A community organization's website, a strategy game, a toolkit for a classic game's players and an experiment in honest conversational AI.
Project P3
A browser-based disease-evolution strategy game: design a pathogen, spread it across a living world map and evolve faster than governments can respond.
UV's Compendium
Calculators, guides and community publishing for Diablo I, Hellfire and DevilutionX, making the game's hidden math easy to check.
UV Bot & Digital Clone Core
Two related experiments in conversational AI: a Discord bot that speaks in its owner's style, and a separate project on privacy-aware identity and memory infrastructure.
Currently in progress
Eldren
A planned persistent, browser-based fantasy world. The game is still being designed; its development site is real, built in WordPress and Elementor with an MCP-assisted agentic workflow.
02How I build
From problem to working software
Understand the need, make the trade-offs explicit, and test the result. I stay responsible for what gets built, how it works and when it's ready to ship.
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Understand the problem
Learn how people work today, where it hurts, and what "done" should mean before any code exists.
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Design the system
Data models, boundaries and trade-offs, written down so decisions can be reviewed and revisited.
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Build with intent
Implement against clear specifications, using the tools that fit. I review changes and keep architecture, scope and quality aligned.
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Test what matters
Unit and browser tests, accessibility checks and, for games, automated simulations and real playtests.
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Ship and iterate
Deploy, document, watch real use and refine. Most of the good ideas arrive after launch.
03About
Practical by background, curious by nature
I'm a software developer who likes making technology genuinely useful. Before development, I spent years in restaurant operations, healthcare, finance and IT. That work taught me how people actually get things done, and where software can make their days easier.
I enjoy finding simpler ways to do complicated things: automating repetitive workflows, building custom web applications and designing interactive experiences. I approach problems with curiosity, test my assumptions, and measure success by whether the result works for the people using it.
More recently, I've embraced AI-assisted development to move from idea to working software faster. I still own the parts that matter most: understanding the problem, designing the system, making the technical calls, testing thoroughly and deciding when something is ready to ship.
- Now Web Developer, Nomadic Software Since summer 2026. WordPress, Beaver Builder, Beaver Themer and Figma.
- Studying A.A.S. Web & Software Development, A-B Tech In progress, fall 2026. Earlier: A.A.S. Computer Engineering Technology (2018).
- Leading Student Government Association President, A-B Tech Re-elected in 2026.
- Before Ten-plus years in operations, finance and IT Restaurant operations leadership, finance management and healthcare. The source of my bias toward practical software.
What I work with
Web applications
- PHP
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- React & Next.js
- MySQL
- WordPress
- Accessible, responsive UI
Automation
- Workflow analysis
- AutoHotkey
- Node.js scripting
- Data processing
AI systems
- LLM integration (OpenAI API)
- Agent behavior design
- Memory & privacy controls
- Agentic development (Claude Code, Codex, MCP)
Games & simulation
- Systems design & balancing
- Seeded, testable simulations
- Multiplayer game scripting
Quality
- Vitest & PHPUnit
- Playwright
- axe accessibility testing
- CI with GitHub Actions
04Earlier work
Where it started
- Automation Accounting Efficiency Tools AutoHotkey scripts that cut a repetitive QuickBooks inventory review from a 19-keystroke sequence to two.
- Games Impossible Ultraviolet A long-running cooperative StarCraft dungeon crawler with 21 playable heroes, randomized encounters and five difficulty levels.
- Games NFL Blitz StarCraft Map Paid freelance work reviving a legacy StarCraft map: recovering lost code context, refactoring, adding features and fixing long-standing bugs.
- Web anotherrecipe.site A PHP/MySQL recipe-sharing application built as my school capstone, with accounts, ratings, image uploads and an object-oriented codebase.
05Contact
Let's talk
Hiring, have a project in mind, or just curious about something here? Send me a message and I'll reply by email.