Built Daysforth
My own take on social media. You’re looking at the prototype.
Carson McRae
@carsonmcrae · Nashville, Tennessee
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).
PicPledge launched at the wedding
Shipped software at my own wedding. In my defense, it worked.
Started building PicPledge
Private photo sharing for events.
Recalen private beta begins
Putting capture and recall into practice.
Started building Recalen
Dump now. Recall later.
Started building TTSNative
Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer.
2023
Quinn arrives
A black doodle with white markings joins the household.
2022
Joined Booz Allen Hamilton
Technical program and product leadership.
Margot arrives
A golden apricot doodle joins the household.
Vanderbilt graduation
Human & Organizational Development and Political Science.
2021
InfoWorks
Consulting and business analysis.
2018
Started at Vanderbilt
The beginning of my Vanderbilt chapter.
2015
First PC build
It was not the last.
2014
Built Minetrocity
A Minecraft server, and my first real taste of building something.
1999
Born
The beginning.
