The Crimson Knight
A novel about chains, and the women who choose to burn them. Currently out on query.
Aubrey Haskett
A personal site, a small archive of work, and a way to be found.
About
I'm a writer and software engineer. I studied Information Systems and Accounting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in Engineering, and have spent the last several years building video infrastructure at Gamechanger and writing fiction in the hours around it.
I've spent stretches of life on the road, lived for a while in a van I helped build, and kept coming back to the same handful of preoccupations: writing, developing useful software, and making art.
Writing
A novel about chains, and the women who choose to burn them. Currently out on query.
Hear your writing read aloud in a natural voice. Free, private, no signup. I built it because I can only catch certain kinds of mistakes when the words are spoken back to me.
Work
Building the video pipeline — capture, multi-part upload, HLS live streaming, archive playback — for millions of streams a year.
A skin-tracking app for monitoring freckles and moles over time. Native camera, image overlay, PDF export, on-device data.
Travel
My husband and I used to travel full time and work remotely from our RV. This let us see new parts of the country every weekend, save money for our future, and scope out where we may want to buy a house someday.
We made short videos of the experience — not to grow a social media base, but to share with family and friends. I'm including them here because the work of learning professional camera equipment and editing software has been a creative endeavor of its own.
The Van
I learned plumbing, electricity, carpentry, mechanics, and more to build my dream off-grid vacation home. The learning, time, and work involved sure made it feel like I was in school again — so I'm going to put it on my resume like I was.