I'm a marketing specialist by day, pursuing various technology-based projects in my spare time.

At the heart of all of this is something pretty simple: I enjoy creative problem solving.

Building an app, website or digital tool feels like a combination of a jigsaw puzzle and a logic puzzle. There's a problem to solve, an outcome I want to achieve, and a collection of technologies, ideas and approaches that might provide the pieces.

The interesting part is figuring out how they fit together.

Sometimes that means finding an API that can provide a missing capability. Sometimes it's discovering a completely different way of approaching the problem. It might involve AI, code, automation, cloud services or an existing platform that can be used in a way it wasn't necessarily designed for.

There's rarely one obvious route from the idea to the finished product.

That's what makes it creative.

My professional career has largely existed at the intersection of marketing, technology and business, so I've spent years looking at problems through different lenses: what does someone actually need, what would make this better, and how could technology help us get there?

The projects on Cody1 are an extension of that mindset.

They're an opportunity to take an idea, explore what's possible, encounter the inevitable technical challenges and gradually piece together a solution.

AI-assisted development has significantly expanded what's possible. I don't need to be a traditional software engineer to experiment with an API, build an iOS app or create a web application. But the technology doesn't provide the idea, define the problem or make all the decisions.

There's still a puzzle to solve.

And that's really why I do it.

Find an interesting problem. Work out the pieces. Build something that solves it. Then find the next one.