AboutWho I Am

Franklin Jara

Charlotte, NC—Full-stack SWE @ CHP

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I build type-safe web apps, AI-native product experiments, and small systems that feel useful enough to keep around. Most of my work lives somewhere between production engineering, open-source contributions, and weird side quests.

Lately I'm focused on shipping polished AI tools, learning lower-level systems with Zig and Rust, contributing to projects like litter, and turning hobbies like bouldering into software. When I'm offline, I'm probably climbing or listening to techno.

Hello, world.
Experience

Production Systems

Selected Builds

Products & Experiments

bouldering + aiLive product

Cima

Cima turns climbing videos into structured feedback: technique notes, session history, grade progress, leaderboards, and 50+ unlockable badges that keep climbers coming back.

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ai + fashionAI app

Drezzi

Drezzi renders uploaded outfits on your own photo in about 25 seconds, with 4K results, lookbooks, style tips, and multi-pose views built around a fast try-on loop.

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dev toolsOpen source

Mono-F7

Mono-F7 is the starter I wanted for shipping full-stack ideas fast: TanStack Start, Hono, tRPC, Better Auth, Drizzle/Postgres, Docker, and Turborepo wired together.

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languagesSystems

Z-Language

A custom programming language written in Zig, from lexer and parser through code generation, built to understand the full pipeline behind fast developer tools.

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More experiments

full-stackFull-stack lab

F7

A multilingual full-stack todo app used as a proving ground for TanStack Start, React 19, tRPC, optimistic updates, and AWS/SST serverless deployments.

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ossContributions

Open Source

I contribute to open-source projects like litter, working in public on small developer tools and useful fixes when something catches my eye.

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generative aiGenerative AI

Starlit AI

A generative art platform for creating and sharing DALL-E 3 images, built with React and AWS Lambda to explore prompt UX and serverless AI workflows.

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game devGame dev

Tiny Car

A tiny 2D racing game in Zig/Raylib focused on fast iteration: physics-based driving, random tracks, and real-time collision detection.

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low-levelLow-level

HTTP Server

A from-scratch HTTP/1.1 server in Zig that handles concurrent connections, routing, static files, and structured error logging without hiding behind a framework.

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Stack

What I Reach For

Primary

TypeScript

Frontend

React + TanStack

Backend

Hono + tRPC

Data

Postgres + Drizzle

Systems

Zig + Rust

Editor

Neovim