Selected work.

LA Metro Kiosks in stations and a site that served millions of riders.

Web development and technical program management

Challenge

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, one of the nation’s largest transit agencies, needed metro.net to work for riders on phones and a new way to explore its stations and the public art inside them.

Approach

Tapiki led the multi-phase migration of metro.net to adaptive templates, rebuilt the global navigation, moved site search to Google, and added coast-to-coast failover and autoscaling. For the Metro Station Guide, Tapiki led requirements, design, and development of a web application for iPad, iPhone, and touchscreen kiosks in Metro stations, with Zehner Group and Slickage Studios.

Result

The Station Guide and its Information Tower kiosks launched at Union Station’s 75th anniversary celebration in May 2014. The redesigned metro.net served millions of riders.

Photos: Lan-Chi Lam

Bank of Hawaii A redesigned boh.com, rebuilt from the ground up around customers.

Co-lead, with Hero Digital and Work & Co

Challenge

Bank of Hawaii needed a public website built around its customers, one that delivered the full online banking experience on any device, at home or on the go.

Approach

Brian co-led the redesign of boh.com in partnership with Hero Digital (now part of Huge) and Work & Co. The site was rebuilt from the ground up, with customers at the center and every page designed to work across phones, tablets, and desktops.

Result

The redesigned boh.com launched in November 2019, giving Bank of Hawaii’s customers one experience across every device.

Hawaii Department of Transportation 139 issues documented. A three-phase plan the agency could fund.

Accessibility audit and remediation planning

Challenge

A state agency needed to know where its public web presence fell short of accessibility law.

Approach

Tapiki audited a public-facing department web property against WCAG 2.1 and documented every issue, with the page, the criterion, and the fix.

Result

139 issues documented, and a prioritized three-phase remediation plan the department could fund and act on.

Department of Land and Natural Resources · Explore Outdoor Hawaiʻi Gold, Best of the Web – Government Agency.

Web development, as a subcontractor to Tyler Technologies

Challenge

Hawaiʻi’s Department of Land and Natural Resources needed one place where residents and visitors could find recreation information, apply for licenses and permits, and reserve state parks, along with guidance on the state’s cultural, historical, and natural resources.

Approach

Tapiki developed Explore Outdoor Hawaiʻi as a subcontractor to Tyler Technologies, which created the site for DLNR. It brings boating, camping, commercial activities, filming, fishing, hiking, hunting, and state park reservations into one site.

Result

Launched in July 2024. The site won gold in the Best of the Web – Government Agency category at the 2024 Horizon Interactive Awards, announced by DLNR in February 2025.

Tapiki StormWatch Hawaiʻi’s live emergency weather picture, built and operated by Tapiki.

Product, design, and engineering; operated by Tapiki

Challenge

Hawaiʻi had no single live view of its emergency weather. Warnings, forecasts, and conditions were spread across agencies and sites.

Approach

Tapiki built and runs one, drawing on National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center, USGS, and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center data across iPhone, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and the web.

Result

A free public service Tapiki operates year-round, with Live Activities and community outage reports added for the 2026 season.

iFirst Medical Technologies Fill-level data the device never had, with no hardware change.

Chief Engineer, advanced AI and application development

Challenge

Medical device cartridges needed a reliable, non-invasive way to report fill percentage without adding sensors or hardware, using only the device’s existing camera.

Approach

Tapiki built an iOS application that analyzes live camera frames with Core ML and edge detection, finds the cartridge boundary, and calculates fill percentage in real time. The model runs entirely on the device, so no patient data leaves it.

Result

Clinicians get fill-level data from a device that previously offered none, with no change to the physical hardware.

Ecobot Field reporting moved from paper to the phone.

Founding mobile engineer, iOS

Challenge

Environmental professionals conducting wetland delineations relied on paper forms, spending 30 to 60 minutes per form turning field notes into regulatory documentation, entirely separate from GIS.

Approach

As founding mobile engineer, Brian built the first version of Ecobot’s iOS app: wetland delineation data, vegetation surveys, and hydric soil observations captured on the device, with offline entry, automated USACE dominance calculations, GIS mapping, and Regional Supplement references built in.

Result

Form processing dropped from hours to minutes. Ecobot has grown into a leading platform for wetland delineation, used by field ecologists and environmental consultants across the country.

Wayvy Face recognition and health data that never leave the phone.

Product, design, and iOS development

Challenge

People losing weight watch the scale move faster than the mirror. Progress photos show the change but sit unsorted among thousands, and finding someone in their own library meant building face recognition without sending a face or a weight to any server.

Approach

Wayvy, Tapiki’s own iPhone app, pairs each weigh-in from Apple Health with a photo of the user from the same day. The full face recognition pipeline runs on the phone: Apple Vision finds and aligns faces, and a deep learning model converted to Core ML matches them against a few reference photos.

Result

Health records and biometric data stay on the device. There is no account, no server, no analytics, and no third-party code, and recognition takes about 30 milliseconds per photo.

Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawaiʻi A partnership in its thirteenth year.

Web stewardship, accessibility, and app development

Challenge

A cultural event with global attention, presented by the Nā Lei Aloha Foundation, needed a digital presence that could carry it year-round, then through a pandemic.

Approach

Tapiki has stewarded the site since 2013: website management, WCAG accessibility work, and technical guidance. When the beach was closed, Tapiki built a virtual lantern app so people could still take part.

Result

A partnership in its thirteenth year, and a community that stayed connected when it couldn’t gather.

Pūlama Lānaʻi · Love Lānaʻi One gallery for everything a visitor can do on Lānaʻi.

Prototype, WordPress development, and testing

Challenge

Pūlama Lānaʻi’s visitor site needed its directory of island resorts, restaurants, shops, transportation, and activities rebuilt as a responsive gallery that works on every screen.

Approach

Working with iQ 360, which supplied the copy and photography, Tapiki prototyped and then built a filterable masonry gallery on the WordPress site. Each business has a card with its logo, photography, description, and links to discover or reserve, and visitors filter by resorts, dining, retail, transportation, experiences, and culture and the arts. The page went through alpha testing with iQ 360 and beta testing with Pūlama Lānaʻi before launch.

Result

A single, responsive guide to the island, live on lovelanai.com and part of Tapiki’s ongoing work for Pūlama Lānaʻi in collaboration with iQ 360.

Mission Management Company A scoring platform and automated audit reports, built and led as CTO.

Chief Technology Officer

Challenge

Church organizations needed to assess, classify, and plan for property portfolios across dozens of locations, with data instead of case-by-case judgment.

Approach

As CTO, Brian designed and built the platform behind the Rapid Renewal Framework: readiness surveys of up to 78 questions for pastors, financial managers, and leadership teams; the MMCo Score for financial, organizational, and property readiness; automated 20-page audit reports; and a classification engine that scores every parcel by property potential and community impact, drawing on census data within a 1.5-mile radius and the Claude API.

Result

In production. Church leaders get the data to make confident, mission-aligned decisions about their properties, and Brian continues as CTO.

Sling TV, Times Square A live counter that ran around the clock above Broadway.

Web development

Challenge

Sling TV’s Times Square campaign centered on a live savings counter on one of the most watched screens in the world. The Clear Channel Outdoor display renders a dedicated web zone, so the counter had to be a web page that ran without fail, day and night.

Approach

Tapiki built the page behind the animated odometer counter to Clear Channel Outdoor’s specifications for the screen’s high-resolution URL zone, engineered for continuous unattended playback.

Result

The counter ran live in Times Square, ticking past $1.2 billion in viewer savings as the campaign played out.