The desk
Electrical engineering degree. Most days I'm writing Swift or wiring up a QuickBooks integration.
I'm Aaron.
sphericalWave is one person. I'm a freelance electrical engineer and digital artist. I build websites and the business systems behind them for small companies, iOS apps for jiu-jitsu athletes, the artwork that goes on all of it, and — when the weather's good — decks, steps, and patios.
The mats
Jiu-jitsu black belt. Most of my apps started as fixes for the problems I watch beginner and intermediate players struggle with.
The canvas
I draw the geometry I keep thinking about — buckyballs, wave forms, things with a structure underneath. It ends up as the marks on this site, the app icons, and the designs on the merch.
The rest
Alfred, snow, a skateboard, and a summer spent building things out of cedar and stone.
How I work
Model it first, then build it
Every job gets the same treatment, whether it's a website, an app, or a front porch: understand the problem, model the fix — a wireframe, a spreadsheet, a CAD drawing — agree on it, then build exactly that. You see what you're getting before anything is made.
Overheads are low. There's no office or account manager in the price; you're paying for the work. Quality stays fixed, and speed is the thing we trade off against cost.
Why the apps
I build what I need
Most of my apps solve problems I see beginner and intermediate jiu-jitsu players struggle with. The rest are for whatever I'm working on myself: better thought patterns, visualizing engineering problems, looking after my dog, investing, piano and guitar, singing. If I need it and it doesn't exist, I build it.
See the appsWant to talk it through?
A short call, no pitch. I'll tell you what I'd do and roughly what it costs.