Sonny Taylor
I ship software with AI and repair stuff
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Experience
Where I've worked
Junior Repair Technician
Jun 2024 - PresentTechbay Computer Specialists · Highett, VIC
Diagnose and repair PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. Handle customer interactions, manage inventory, and build internal tools. Developed the company's online store and internal portal from scratch using AI-augmented development.
Trade Apprentice
Jan 2024The Door Taylor · Toorak, VIC
Flooring installation, demolition, and waste removal. Hands-on trade work requiring precision and physical problem-solving.
Junior IT Technician
Jan 2023Yeshivah - Beth Rivkah Colleges · St Kilda, VIC
Refurbished school computers by securely erasing data and reinstalling operating systems. Organised laptops and cables for charging stations across the school.
Education
Beaumaris Secondary College
VCE · Cheltenham, VIC
2020 - 2025
Year 12. Subjects: Food Studies, Systems Engineering, English, General Maths, Psychology. Completed Applied Computing.
Cheltenham East Primary School
Primary School · Cheltenham, VIC
2014 - 2019
Mastered the Cool S. Learned to read and write (mostly). Undefeated at handball.
Certifications
Google IT Support Professional Certificate
Coursera · 2024
Operating Systems Basics
Cisco Networking Academy · Oct 2023
Computer Hardware Basics
Cisco Networking Academy · Oct 2023
Introduction to Cybersecurity
Cisco Networking Academy · Oct 2023
Python for Beginners
Grok Learning · Sep 2023
Projects
Things I've built
Work
MacBook Pro 14″
ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Dell OptiPlex 7090
HP EliteBook 840
Techbay Website
E-COMMERCEFull website and e-commerce storefront for a Melbourne IT repair business. Shopify-powered shop with Meilisearch autocomplete, AI chatbot for 24/7 customer support, service booking, and a blog.
AI Chat
24/7
xAI-powered
Search
Instant
Meilisearch
Warranty
12mo
on all repairs
built the whole thing from scratch!
Techbay Portal
INTERNALInternal business dashboard for managing repairs, bookings, staff attendance, and inventory. Features an AI phone agent, real-time kanban boards, parts aggregator, and collaborative wiki.
Phone AI
Live
voice agent
Features
15+
modules
Auth
MFA
TOTP required
runs the whole shop
Repairs Today
Revenue
Bookings
Wholesale Scraper
AUTOMATIONFull pipeline for scraping wholesale IT suppliers, processing product images with AI background removal, standardising descriptions with Gemini, and syncing everything to Shopify automatically.
Suppliers
2
auto-scraped
Products
800+
processed
Images
AI
BG removal
saves hours every week
Personal
RustService
PORTABLEBlazing-fast portable toolkit for repair techs. 25+ diagnostic and maintenance services with a built-in AI agent — runs straight off a USB stick, no install needed.
CPU
i7-12700K
12C/20T · 3.6GHz
RAM
32 GB
DDR5-4800
Storage
512 GB
NVMe · 89% healthy
exio
ACTIVESelf-hosted ngrok alternative. Expose local services to the internet via WebSocket tunnels — fast, private, no third-party dependency.
why pay for ngrok?
Smart Sort Bin
EDGE AIAI-powered waste sorting bin that classifies items using computer vision and sorts them into General, Recycling, or Compost via a servo-driven mechanism. Dual-mode: offline YOLO or cloud LLM fallback.
Accuracy
>90%
50-item test batch
Sort Time
<3s
detect to drop
Budget
$155
AUD total BOM
VCE systems engineering
ScrapeDaddy
EXTENSIONBrowser extension for zero-code data extraction. 8 tools for grabbing lists, tables, emails, images, and more from any webpage. Smart element picker with auto-detection and export to CSV, Excel, or Sheets.
Tools
8
extraction modes
Exports
6+
CSV, XLSX, JSON...
Browsers
2
Chrome & Firefox
no more copy-pasting
Tools & Skills
All projects built using AI-augmented development with Claude and Cursor.
Contact
Get in touch
I'm always open to chatting about new projects, interesting problems, or opportunities to collaborate. Whether it's a repair tool idea, a web project, or just to say hi — reach out.
I usually reply within a day