Tyler La Fronz

Standards API

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The Problem

Engineering teams accumulate standards and best practices over time — security rules, reliability patterns, observability requirements — but those standards are often scattered across wikis, Confluence pages, or word-of-mouth. When AI-powered code review tools enter the picture, there is no structured, machine-readable source of truth they can query to enforce those rules consistently.

The Solution

Standards API is an AI-generated proof of concept exploring what a production-grade standards management service could look like. The entire project — from the data model and service layer to the HTTP routes and Kubernetes manifests — was scaffolded by AI to demonstrate how quickly a well-structured API can be produced. It stores versioned engineering standards in PostgreSQL and exposes them to AI code review tooling and developer workflows. Each standard is a structured rule with a stable rule_key, a lifecycle (draft → active → deprecated), severity and category classifications, applicability metadata, and concrete good/bad code examples.

NYC Affordability Calculators

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The Problem

New York City housing searches usually start with the same question: “What can I actually afford?”

That question is harder in NYC than in many other markets. A co-op buyer may need enough cash for a down payment, closing costs, and post-close reserves. A condo buyer has to think about property taxes, common charges, mortgage recording tax, mansion tax, and lender debt-to-income limits. A renter may be screened against the 40x rent rule while also needing enough cash for move-in costs.

Custom Stellar Federation Server

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The Problem

One of the main issues I have with Blockchain transfers is knowing the recipient’s account number, however one the ways Stellar handles this is by allowing users to create their own federation servers, which help to translate the user name into a valid account number. Taking the user name, which looks somewhat like an email, and transforming it into a long string of letters and numbers.

The Solution

Architecture

Built with Go.
Containerized
Federation server is a REST API that is exposed to the public.
Uses the Stellar Network Foundation protocol.

Features

Dynamic Memo support

Add any memo to any transaction by sending the payment to tyler+Thank_You*lafronz.com. The text following + is the memo.

JSON Resume

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:39:36 -0400

The Reasoning Behind this Idea

With my passion for backend data processing and the desire to learn more about the world Liquid data formatting and processing, I decided to create a JSON version of my resume and website.

Why JSON?

Simple it is easy to process and expand.

Partial JSON Output

{
    "firstName": "Tyler",
    "lastName": "La Fronz",
    "fullName": "Tyler La Fronz",
    "address": "Marlboro, NJ 07746",
    "phone": "+1 (732) 737-7878",
    "email": "tyler@lafronz.com",
    "pronouns": "he/him/his",
    "description":  "Solution-focused, innovative Full Stack Software Developer with a passion for the field and experience using a wide array of technology.",
    "bullets": [
        
        "Innovative thought leader with demonstrated experience developing and implementing processes to improve operations.",
        
        "Proficient at fostering strategic relationships with customers and coworkers to meet company goals.",
        
        "Proven success at leading cross-functional teams in a variety of settings and ensuring efficient workflows."
        
        
    ],
    "social": [
        {
            "name": "twitter",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/twitter"
        },
        {
            "name": "instagram",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/instagram"
        },
        {
            "name": "linkedin",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/linkedin"
        },
        {
            "name": "github",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/github"
        },
        {
            "name": "angellist",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/AngelList"
        },
        {
            "name": "keybase",
            "url": "https://go.lafro.nz/keybase"
        }
        
        ]
}

Vanago

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 02:23:37 -0500

The Problem

Go uses URLs as its import path for new packages. At the core, this is not an issue since the major Git Repository Services all have built-in support for Go imports; however, users are unable to brand these public service URLs.

The Solution

As part of my push to teach my self Go, I started reading about how Go imports packages via the go get command. This new knowledge had be on the hunt for a service that would allow me to brand all my Go Modules. I was unable to find anything that was generic enough to work with both my public and private repos. So I created it and named it Vanago, short for Vanity Go.

New Website

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:23:37 -0500

The Basics

As part of my goal to always stay updated with the latest designs and trends, I started looking for a new theme to use for the biases of my new website.

I found it in the Black Rock Digital Resume HTML Template, which was released under an MIT License. Since then, I have modified the original theme to based Jekyll, I added in my blog section, and the contact section by using an embed form from Typeform, and automation from Zapier.

Recursive Fibonacci in Javascript

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:20:00 -0500

The Fundamentals

At its core, a basic Fibonacci algorithm is incredibly slow and inefficient. This implementation of Fibonacci includes a data structure to memorize previously calculated numbers in the sequence.

Please enter a value:

The function that computes this

var memo = [0, 1]; //Stores the previously calculated values

function fib(fibNum) {
  var result = 0;
  if (memo[fibNum]) { //Checks for previously calculated value
    result = memo[fibNum]; //returns the value stored
  } else if (fibNum >= 2) {
    result = fib(fibNum - 1) + fib(fibNum - 2); //recursively calls for the value
    memo[fibNum] = result; //Stores the result
  }
  return result; //returns the value
}

AMP Minimal

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500

The Basics

The idea of creating an AMP based theme for Jekyll came to me when I was searching the web for a theme that was clean, simple, modern, and easy to maintain. When I found the GitHub Pages’ theme Minimal, originally by @orderedlist, I fell in love, however I wanted the site to be quicker in loading. Therefore I created the AMP version of the theme, which my portfolio uses.

MusicMap

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500

My Role

Working closely with Maya, I was self tasked with working on the back end, as well as filling the globe with the data provided by the Spotify API, and the user’s Spotify profile.

Short Intro into the Project

Working with @bloomm601 on a capstone for our Visualization class, we created a globe using the user’s Spotify library. The program will then randomly assigns each country on the globe a song from the user’s library when the user selects a country it will play a 30-second clip from the song.

Russian Roulette Music Style

Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500

My Role

Working closely with Maya, I was self tasked with working on the back end, as well as filling the globe with the songs.

Short Intro into the Project

Over the course of 24 hours and working with @bloomm601, we create a globe that shows all 195 countries in the world, according the the UN, and plays a song for each one of them. Since there is no correlation between the countries and the song choices, we called this Russian Roulette - Music Style. This was apart of HackWITus, a local Hackathon, the first I went too and the first hosted at Wentworth

P4 Top 50 Songs By Country

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500

Short Intro into the Project

I worked with a friend, @bloomm601, to create a Global map that showed public Spotify Top 50 charts for the countries available. We are planing to expand this idea for our Capstone project in our Visualization class.