New website! (v3)
Welcome to version 3 of the site — rebuilt from the ground up, and this time I own the whole stack.
1 min read
Danny Shay
Staff Software Engineer — Atlanta, GA
A software engineer near Atlanta, GA. At Mailchimp (Intuit) I build user-facing products that run in production for millions of small businesses. At home I build everything else — including this site. Look around for projects, paintings, photos, and the occasional life update.
Recent posts
All postsRebuilding dannyshay.com: from Sanity to a stack I own
The old site died of a free-tier quota. Here's the architecture that replaced it — Next.js, Neon Postgres, Vercel Blob, a custom CMS, and a migration pipeline with reconciliation gates.
2 min read
First 1/2 Marathon (race)
Today I got to run in the Berry 1/2 marathon and am very pleased with an official time of 1:51:46 despite injury and illness the last few months.
1 min read
Projects
All projects
Community website for a swim-tennis neighborhood on the Chattahoochee — events, news, photo galleries, and resident resources.
NextJSVercelNeon PostgresPrisma
This site! Rebuilt in 2026 on a stack I fully own — blog, digital art gallery, projects, and a custom CMS.
NextJSVercelNeon PostgresCustom CMSClaude Code
A private, local-first dashboard for our household finances — every account, transaction, and net-worth trend on one page, on the home network only.
ReactViteExpressSQLitePlaidPlaywrightMCPWebAuthn
Quant strategies propose, Claude reviews and writes the why, I approve from my phone — with hard risk limits nobody can override.
PythonFastAPIAPSchedulerSQLitealpaca-pyClaudeDocker
From the gallery
All artwork →
