Wilson Hailey · Software Engineer
I build software that teaches,
automates, and ships.
Edtech apps that make learning a habit, AI systems delivered end to end, games with real users, and the self-hosted infrastructure under all of it — built, verified, and documented by me.
Selected work
All projects →Study platform — spaced repetition that makes learning a habit
A web app that teaches: SM-2 spaced repetition, adaptive quizzes, and streaks — built to turn a study plan into a daily habit.
NFC chore system — gamified chores, real hardware, happy kids
A chore system my kids actually use: tap an NFC tag, earn points, chase streaks and bonus quests — ESP32 hardware wired into Home Assistant and a FastAPI backend.
IX Biomedical — Agentic document intelligence · IX Biomedical
A multi-agent pipeline that reads, classifies, and extracts structure from clinical and research documents — with a human in the loop at every low-confidence step.
Writing
All posts →I built my kids a chore system that feels like a game
How I turned chore wars into a system my kids actually use — NFC tags, an ESP32 scanner, Home Assistant, and a gamified points engine. The full story, the design decisions, and how you can replicate it.
ReadBuild and verify
A working system beats a convincing demo. Why I build things I can actually run, and verify the output before I trust it — and how that maps to forward-deployed engineering.
ReadLet's build something that actually runs.
I work across education, AI, and games — client work, edtech products, or interesting problems. The writing on this site is the record of how I build: what I decided, what broke, and what shipped.