Engineering Manager Handbook
A free, searchable Engineering Manager Handbook — 53 topics across 12 sections — planned and built in public with the BMAD method.
Projects
A few things I’ve built — from a hand-coded Go site written before the AI era, to this very site planned spec-first with an AI agent. Newest first.
carriekroutil.com — this very site
A personal site and blog, planned spec-first with the BMAD method and built with an AI coding agent on Hugo, shipped continuously to AWS Amplify.
Unblur
A multiplayer photo party game: a blurred Unsplash photo races into focus while everyone guesses from their phones. My first from-scratch build with Claude Code — a BMAD rebuild is coming next.
Oy with the poodles already — Lorelai
A custom GPT channeling Gilmore Girls' Lorelai — and the AI-generated 'lost episode' it wrote — born from exploring HeyGen's video-localization features.
KareoTool
A C#/.NET tool that pulls data from Kareo's SOAP API into Excel to streamline a nonprofit's accounting — and the lesson that the best solution was the one I didn't build.
Content Curation Projects
Two features I shipped as Engineering Manager of the Content & Curation team at Degreed — Pathways for building guided learning experiences, and Live Events for joining virtual events when the world went remote.
Kona Doodle
A little site starring my doggo Kona — first built in 2014, then rewritten in 2018 as a hand-coded Go-templates site on GCP. No AI, just good clean living.