Technical Product / Program Manager · Nashville, TN
I'm Carson. I work across product and program delivery, and I design and build products of my own.
With PicPledge, Recalen, and TTSNative, I owned the original idea, every product decision, the design, development, and delivery. These are the choices behind the products.
Explore my workFour products, from personal tools to software supporting a working service business.
PicPledgeI designed and built an event photo-sharing product, then launched it at my own wedding.
40+ people using it concurrently · 100+ photos shared live
~132k app source lines · ~174k tests & support
100% statements, branches, functions, and lines
Coverage report · Oct 19, 2026
RecalenI designed and built a personal capture and recall app across web and native mobile, now being tested by 20+ people.
20+ private-beta testers · Several daily users
~391k app source lines · ~528k tests & support
100% lines and functions; 99.99% branches
Coverage report · Aug 21, 2026
TTSNativeI designed and built a private document reader that turns PDFs, EPUBs, and Word documents into natural speech on your own computer, with optional consent-based voice cloning.
Free and open source (MIT) · Documents and voices stay on your computer
~20k app source lines · ~12k tests & support
100% statements and branches, web app and server
CI coverage report · Oct 20, 2026
Southern Surface CompanyI built the website and software behind lead discovery and follow-up for a Nashville painting, flooring, and cleaning business.
Owner-reported last month: 150 new leads · 5 jobs secured
Reported October 22, 2026. Human review and follow-through connect discovery to real work.
Source sizes measured October 19, 2026 (TTSNative: October 20, 2026). Physical lines include comments and blanks; dependencies, generated output, assets, and lockfiles are excluded. Tests and test support are shown separately. Coverage uses its own executable source scope and report date.
How I work
Recalen's beta roadmap shows what I am validating, what needs to be ready before wider release, and what can wait.
Explore the roadmap ↗Why I moved PicPledge's facial matching from account setup into each event, and the extra friction I accepted.
Read the decision story →How I sequence Recalen's work, account for dependencies, and separate building a feature from being ready to release it.
Read the delivery snapshot →How I tested TTSNative's studio voice in a blind six-voice listening test, and why I'm cutting its recording session from 48 passages to about 15.
Read the voice case study →A little background
At 13, I worked with developers on a Minecraft server that caught the attention of the creators of Mineplex. I built my first PC in 2015. That interest in computers grew into a career in product delivery and business analysis.
I'm based in Nashville and graduated from Vanderbilt. Away from work, I'm into fantasy football, video games, golf, and pickleball. I also have two dogs, Margot and Quinn.