I make bricks by day, photograph the buildings they become, and ship software at night.
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Mon–Fri — Lead Hand, Machine Operator at a brick & paver plant in Metro Vancouver. Real bricks, real kilns, real forklifts — and now a crew to run the line with.
Behind the lens — 22 years across 33 countries: architecture, interiors and hospitality for architects, designers and hotels across BC. Contributing photographer for Harper's Bazaar Thailand (2012–2023); second unit camera operator on Sundaram Tagore's Louis Kahn documentary Tiger City (2019). Six WPPI Silver awards; Phase One Certified Professional (2016). Bilingual EN / 中文.
After hours — I design, build and deploy my own tools, solo, with AI as a working partner the whole way. It started with an app for my own plant floor.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| Delta Plant | The recipe manager I built for the brick plant where I work — mix formulas, colours and sizes. In daily use on the floor. |
| Agentic Sentry | macOS runtime safety guard for local AI coding agents — command monitoring, soft blocking, audit logs. Installable via Homebrew. |
| AgentPay | Cross-rail spend-policy gateway for AI-agent payments — budgets, limits, allowlists; agents never hold credentials. |
| CloakPII | PII masking + AES-256-GCM encryption + PIPL/PDPA/GDPR compliance reports for cross-border data. Python CLI. |
| geo-engine | A Claude Code skill for GEO/AEO — get a brand cited and recommended by AI answer engines. |
| CanPay Insights | Canadian payroll & take-home-pay calculator — live at canpayinsights.ca, with an Android companion app. |
| Keepsake Guide | Canada-wide funeral & end-of-life services directory — server-rendered, built for SEO. |
More on the Lab page — the problem, my role, the stack and the result for each.
Bricks by day · buildings by light · code by night — 100% committed. · 📍 Vancouver, BC · info@traviszhang.com