Lyle Brulhart

I'm a software engineer based in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. I've worked independently for most of the last two decades. Most of what I build stays inside the companies I build it for — production systems that aren't mine to link to from a public site. Day-to-day that means Python and Tornado on the backend, hand-written PostgreSQL without an ORM, and Vue, jQuery, or htmx on the front. Infrastructure runs on AWS, GCP, Docker, and Cloudflare.

I care about software that holds up over time: code that performs well under real load, security implemented correctly rather than performatively, and privacy treated as architecture rather than policy. I prefer libraries to frameworks and small composable tools to platforms.

Before independent work, I shipped games at Vancouver studios in the 1990s. More recently, several years on large-scale e-commerce platforms with substantial PCI DSS exposure. I started writing software in 1992 and I still write code daily.

Selected work

Signup Systems. A platform for events, registrations, bookings, and payments. Originally for the seminar and training market; also powers vacation rental management at Top of the Mountain near Sun Peaks Resort. Primary developer for more than twenty years. signupsystems.com · topofthemountain.ca

Fenestra: Fasting Timer (iOS). A Swift and SwiftUI app for tracking intermittent fasting, with an Apple Watch companion. Seven metabolic phases, multiple diet modes, eighteen achievements. Data stays on device — no server, no tracking, no telemetry. App Store release forthcoming. brulhart.net/fenestra

Susana Vijaya. Ritual jewelry house based in Salmon Arm, run by my spouse. I wrote and revised the website copy. susanavijaya.com

crisp-niece. A passphrase generator that produces memorable, faintly unsettling strings. Side project. brulhart.net/crisp-niece

Grid Runner · Gunmetal. Two games shipped in the 1990s. Grid Runner at Radical Entertainment (Vancouver, 1996). Gunmetal at Mad Genius Software (Gastown, Vancouver, 1998).