Hi! 😊

I'm Copeland — British-American software engineer and new resident of California! I'm looking for dev roles and would love to hear from you if you have a lead.

This website is running on my home server, a Kubernetes cluster provisioned with GitHub actions, FluxCD and served behind Cloudflare! Since high school I've gone from OS packages, to Docker Compose, to ESXi-virtualized Podman and finally Ubuntu and K3s.

Here's a recent project I did based on the fantastic TV show Severance, also running on the same infrastructure: wellness.copey.dev

It's a parodic take on the "Wellness Sessions" the severed employees get at work, where they have no memory of their life on the outside — their "Outie". The site is static JS (now I appreciate why TypeScript exists!) and uses a customized CRT-style WebGL shader. My initial implementation included a tiny LLM deployed with Ollama which could generate facts on the fly, but they were way, way worse than what I could come up with. The final speech files were generated with a finetuned fish-speech model, then run through some mild post-processing using SoX and Python.

Outside of computers I'm a big cyclist — mountain biking and bike touring:

Last summer I rode 3030 miles from the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies to LA via Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and the Pacific Coast!

I wrote a blog documenting the trip on biking.copey.dev

And made a video montage out of clips of the ride, set to U2:

And last year I rode 900 miles from London to Zürich via Paris, Dijon, Geneva and the Alps:

POV descent down the stunning Furkapass, the location where they shot the Alpine shootout in the classic James Bond film Goldfinger:

Here's a couple video edits I made in Resolve: