Built Daysforth
My own take on social media. You’re looking at the prototype. A timeline-first profile for work, projects, and life: switch to a photographic Posts view, filter by category, or save and react to moments.
William Carson McRae
@carsonmcraeNashville, TN
Technical Program & Product Leader
I help teams build complicated things, then go home and build more things.
Booz Allen Hamilton by day; TTSNative, Recalen and PicPledge on nights and weekends.
Pinned moments
November 1999 – October 2026
2026
TTSNative 1.0 released
Released as open source (MIT). My first fully functional desktop app: a local text-to-speech reader with read-along highlighting and app updates after installation.
PicPledge launched at the wedding
Shipped software at my own wedding. In my defense, it worked. A private event album where guests share photos as the day happens and download the pictures they want to keep.
Started playing golf
Good practice for patience. Less good for overconfidence.
Recalen private beta begins
Putting capture and recall into practice. Capture thoughts, links, files, and voice notes in one place, then find them with search, reminders, and calendar views.
Picked up pickleball
Don’t knock it until you try it. It’s basically full-court ping-pong.
2024
Built a watch of my own
Collecting them eventually turned into making one.
2023
Quinn arrives
An Aussiedoodle, a Craigslist pickup, and an extremely good decision.
2022
Joined Booz Allen Hamilton
Technical program and product leadership.
Margot arrives
A goldendoodle puppy with a very convincing shark impression.
Vanderbilt graduation
Human & Organizational Development and Political Science.
2021
InfoWorks
Consulting and business analysis.
2019
My brief YouTube era
The creator career did not quite take off.
A semester in Sydney
UNSW, Apple, and a camera in Australia.
2018
Started at Vanderbilt
The beginning of my Vanderbilt chapter.
Started at Apple
July 2018 – May 2022.
High school salutatorian
Graduation day · May 2018.
2017
First in Tennessee. Sixth nationally
FBLA Digital Video Production · July 2017.
2016
Became an Eagle Scout
Board of review passed. Eagle Scout earned.
2015
First PC build
It was not the last.
2014
Built Minetrocity
A Minecraft server, and my first real taste of building something.
2012
The first watch of many
A Fossil in September 2012 started something.
1999
Born
The beginning.