A travel blog about scoring free hotel stays using credit card points — with a focus on traveling with large dogs. Covers hotel & airline pet policies, dog-friendly destinations, and trip reports with my 70-lb GSP/Lab mix, Ansel.

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A health & wellness affiliate site in the GLP-1 medication niche. Built with Hugo and deployed on Netlify to learn affiliate marketing, SEO, and AI-driven search optimization. Used an llms.txt file and AI-friendly robots.txt to explicitly welcome GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers — grew organic referrals from ChatGPT in under 2 months with zero ad spend. Built custom GA4 tracking to measure AI referral sources (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and iterated on long-tail keyword targeting. Integrated the Google Analytics Data API to pull live traffic and AI referral data and display it on a dashboard here on my portfolio.

A full-stack bar & grill ordering app built with C# and ASP.NET Core Razor Pages. Customers can browse a menu of craft cocktails, appetizers, entrees, and desserts, add items to a session-based cart, and place orders — all through a polished dark-mode UI with responsive design and scroll-triggered animations. Built to sharpen my C#/.NET skills and demonstrate proficiency with server-side rendering, dependency injection, ViewComponents, partial views, and the Razor Pages architecture.

A Spring Boot REST API serving pet policy data for 16 major hotel chains. Full CRUD operations, smart recommendations ranked by weight/fee/rating, side-by-side comparison, filtering, and search — with interactive Swagger docs. 69 tests (unit + integration), Dockerized, and deployed on Render.