William A. Daley

Technology leadership grounded in practical delivery.

I help teams turn complex technical goals into reliable, maintainable software systems. My work spans application architecture, cloud infrastructure, automation, modernization, delivery management, and hands-on engineering when the project needs someone who can move comfortably between strategy and implementation.

The projects below offer a window into that approach: taking ambiguous ideas, shaping them into coherent systems, and carrying them far enough that the architecture, infrastructure, data flows, and user experience all have to work together.

Geospatial Imaging

Altilytics

Agricultural analysis platform for VNIR push-broom hyperspectral imagery.

This system processes raw drone-mounted hyperspectral datacubes into map-ready Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs, then serves them through a browser-based Leaflet viewer. It supports spectral-band inspection, vegetation indices, canopy masking, per-pixel queries, and bounding-box regional analysis across processed vineyard flights.

  • Python
  • AWS Batch
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Terraform
  • Leaflet
  • GeoTIFF
  • Rasterio/GDAL

What It Does

Converts raw ENVI hyperspectral datacubes and image-geometry maps into browsable spectral products, including HNDVI, NDVI, red-edge indices, water indices, and individual wavelength bands.

Architecture

Raw flight data lands in S3, AWS Batch runs a containerized Python processing pipeline, outputs COG layers and manifests back to S3, and API Gateway/Lambda exposes job metadata and analysis endpoints to a static Leaflet web app.

Processing

The worker loads geometry maps, builds interpolation contexts, mosaics flight lines, filters transit legs, computes vegetation indices, writes tiled/overviewed COGs, and generates manifests with bounds and color ranges.

Infrastructure

Terraform defines the AWS footprint: S3 buckets, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda functions, ECR repositories, IAM, VPC resources, and Batch compute. GitHub Actions deploy infra, web assets, Lambda containers, and the Batch image.

Independent Studio

BrainDodge Studios

Strategy games, tabletop games, and creative tools built around experimentation and problem-solving.

BrainDodge Studios is an independent creativity studio producing tactical browser games, original tabletop games, and tools for musicians and makers. The current catalog includes live software products, playable browser experiences, award-winning tabletop games, and in-development science-fiction strategy games.

  • Browser Games
  • Tabletop Games
  • Creative Tools
  • AWS
  • JavaScript
  • Game Design
  • AI-Assisted Development

Aces of the Western Front

A free browser-based World War I aerial strategy game where players plan simultaneous maneuvers, manage aircraft handling, fuel, damage, and tailing, and can face a Claude-powered AI opponent.

Shepherding Cats

A RageCon 2026-winning tabletop chase through a monastery, where players move as elusive cats, redirect the Pope, lock doors, and shape a pursuit that grows less predictable each round.

Robot Prospectors and the Rings of Saturn

A competitive retro science-fiction tabletop game about mining Saturn's shifting rings, navigating eruptions, contesting valuable sites, and managing increasingly independent robots.

For the Glory of Mars

A tabletop strategy game where rival Martian companies explore the Asteroid Belt, build reusable expertise, construct spacecraft, and settle Jupiter's moons as an interdependent colony.

Basstab Pro

A commercial web and desktop tool for bassists that turns songs into editable bass tab, separated stems, printer-friendly output, and AI-assisted practice guidance.

Holiday Prop Lab

A beta maker tool for visually sequencing lights, servos, motors, audio, and sensors, then generating Arduino-ready code for animated holiday displays.