--- title: "Nathan Gamache | WordPress developer in Michigan" description: "I build WordPress and WooCommerce sites for real businesses, at Perfect Afternoon and through my own shop, and study CS (AI) at Lawrence Tech." url: https://www.nathangamache.com/ --- # I build WordPress and WooCommerce sites I’m a CS student at Lawrence Tech and lead developer at Perfect Afternoon, and I run a small web dev shop called Gamache Technology Solutions. Outside of client work I spend a lot of time on ML research and keeping my homelab alive. [See the work](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/) · [Download resume](https://www.nathangamache.com/assets/nathan-gamache-resume.pdf) - Based in: **Michigan, USA** - Studying: **Computer Science (AI), Lawrence Tech** - Working at: **Perfect Afternoon** - Since: **Jun 2022** * **260+** active websites * **100+** active clients * **10+** servers Sites, clients and servers I’ve worked on and managed at Perfect Afternoon, counting production, staging and development sites. ## Websites, servers and a research project On my projects I own the code and the deployment, and our monthly audits keep watch on the upkeep. Web development ### WordPress and WooCommerce sites I’ve been at Perfect Afternoon since June 2022, lead developer since March 2026, building e-commerce platforms, corporate sites and franchise location pages, and I built SJD Taxi’s booking system through my own shop. I build them, deploy them, handle DNS and SSL on launch, and our monthly audits keep them healthy after that. Technologies: WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, ACF Pro Infrastructure ### My homelab I run three servers in a rack at home: a web server, a game server for friends and a NAS. This website runs from the rack. It’s where I practice Linux administration, networking and automation. Technologies: Linux, Nginx, TrueNAS SCALE, Cloudflare AI and machine learning ### AI tools and research At work I invented and built [PANoodle](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/panoodle/), the agency’s AI operations platform. At school, my senior capstone was a model that tried to flag violence in video before it started. Technologies: Claude, MCP, PyTorch, Multimodal ML ## What I work with - **WordPress**: I build client sites on it, from scoping through launch. - **WooCommerce**: I build WooCommerce stores for agency clients. - **Gutenberg**: I build ACF-powered Gutenberg blocks that editors can use without breaking the layout. - **ACF Pro**: The fields behind my custom blocks, and the field groups for SJD Taxi’s zone pages. - **PHP**: The SJD Taxi booking hub is all PHP. - **JavaScript**: I built the service worker and the browser side of the push notifications for GamJo Cloud, my family’s vacation app, in plain JavaScript. - **TypeScript**: The SJD Taxi booking form is TypeScript and React. - **React**: I built the Stripe payment step of the SJD Taxi booking form in React, and the whole front end of GamJo Cloud, my family’s vacation app. - **Node.js**: I built the website for Baylee, The Outpost’s Discord bot, on Node and Express. - **Python**: The CatalogXpert platform, its first sales engine and its public site are Python, on FastAPI. - **PyTorch**: I built Detroit Pulse’s QLoRA fine-tuning pipeline on PyTorch and trained its LoRA adapter with it; its Silero voice detection runs on PyTorch too. - **TensorFlow**: Four of us used it with a depth camera for our high school gesture capstone. - **MySQL**: Baylee’s website keeps its data in MySQL, and my Minecraft leaderboard plugin read its stats from it. - **REST APIs**: I built the REST API that connects four SJD Taxi booking sites to their hub, and both sides of Terminal Supply’s AS400 integration. - **Linux**: I practice Linux administration on my homelab, including its TrueNAS SCALE NAS. - **Nginx**: My homelab web server runs Nginx with CloudPanel, serving this site and proxying my apps. - **Docker**: CatalogXpert’s development setup runs PostgreSQL and Chroma in Docker containers. - **RAID**: My homelab NAS mirrors its two 4 TB drives in RAID 1. - **Cloudflare**: I deployed a client’s Content-Security-Policy as a Cloudflare response header rule. - **Git**: I keep my code in Git, and this site deploys itself from its GitHub repository. ## A few things I’ve built The ones I would show you first. There are sixteen in total if you want to dig around. Inventor and lead developer · Perfect Afternoon ### [PANoodle: AI Operations Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/panoodle/) The agency’s AI operations platform: the team’s Claude or ChatGPT, connected to more than 1,300 tools, with a memory for every client and site and a bot that runs the monthly maintenance. I invented and built it in 2026, and I am its lead developer. Technologies: MCP, Claude, AI agents, Postgres [View project: PANoodle: AI Operations Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/panoodle/) Scope, development and launch ### [SJD Taxi Booking Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/sjd-taxi/) A taxi and shuttle service in Cabo San Lucas was still taking bookings through a plugin from 2015. I built and launched their site in 2023, then took over an unfinished replacement and turned it into a working system: one booking hub, HubSpot sync with no missed deals, and Stripe checkout. Four sites now book through it. Technologies: WordPress, PHP, TypeScript, React, Stripe [Read the case study: SJD Taxi Booking Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/sjd-taxi/) Co-founder · CatalogXpert ### [CatalogXpert: AI Sales Assistant Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/catalogxpert/) An AI sales assistant that stores selling technical products can add to their site with one script tag. I co-founded it in March 2026 as a venture between JDW Ventures and Gamache Technology Solutions. I wrote the original demo and the first sales engine, which builds audio and AV systems, and the specs the platform was built from. Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, Chroma, Claude [Read the case study: CatalogXpert: AI Sales Assistant Platform](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/catalogxpert/) Senior capstone · Lawrence Technological University ### [Streaming Violence Anticipation System](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/capstone/) My solo senior capstone, finished in May 2026 and rebuilt in October: a model that warns before violence starts in video, tested against a baseline that sees no video at all. Technologies: PyTorch, SigLIP 2, Computer Vision, Evaluation [View project: Streaming Violence Anticipation System](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/capstone/) Deep Learning class · Spring 2026 ### [Detroit Pulse: Live Incident Map from Scanner Radio](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/detroit-pulse/) A solo project that turns public scanner radio for metro Detroit into a live incident map, with local Whisper transcription, a local language model with a LoRA adapter I trained, and a correlation engine that groups transmissions into incidents. Technologies: Python, Whisper, Local LLMs, QLoRA, React [View project: Detroit Pulse: Live Incident Map from Scanner Radio](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/detroit-pulse/) Lead developer · Perfect Afternoon ### [Corrigan Companies](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/corrigan/) One WordPress multisite and one theme for 11 company sites. I wrote the development scope, set up the environments, moved the network between servers, and launched four of its five live sites. Technologies: WordPress, Multisite, DNS, Performance [View project: Corrigan Companies](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/corrigan/) Lead developer · Perfect Afternoon ### [Terminal Supply Co](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/terminal-supply/) The theme, the product importer and every category import for their WooCommerce rebuild, both sides of a REST integration with their AS400, and storefront features like catalog-wide tiered pricing. Technologies: WooCommerce, AS400, PHP, Data imports [View project: Terminal Supply Co](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/terminal-supply/) Developer · Perfect Afternoon ### [Cottage Inn Pizza](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/cottage-inn/) I built their new theme from the client’s designs and launched it in 2026, rebuilt the Punchh rewards integration from the ground up, and look after the Yext location pages and a rewritten store finder. Technologies: WordPress, Punchh, Yext, JavaScript [View project: Cottage Inn Pizza](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/cottage-inn/) [View all 16 projects](https://www.nathangamache.com/projects/) ## How I got here I started out on the staff of a Minecraft server, as a moderator and then an administrator. Since 2022 I have been building sites for clients. ### Lead Developer Perfect Afternoon, Mar 2026 – Present (current) I lead development at the agency, with a focus on taking manual work off the team. The biggest piece so far is PANoodle, the AI operations platform I invented and built. ### WordPress Developer Perfect Afternoon, Jun 2022 – Mar 2026 I took agency client sites from scoping through development, QA and launch, and then stayed on to keep them fast and patched. ### Founder Gamache Technology Solutions, Feb 2024 – Present (current) Independent consulting and development, and CatalogXpert, a venture with JDW Ventures that I co-founded. My main client is SJD Taxi, where I turned an unfinished replacement for their 2015 booking system into a working one, partly through my Perfect Afternoon work. ### Moderator, then Administrator The Outpost, 2019 – 2022 I rose from player to moderator on a Minecraft server with about 10,000 players over the years, and later came back as one of its administrators. [Full experience](https://www.nathangamache.com/experience/) ## Let’s talk If you’re building something, have a project in mind or just want to talk shop, send me an email. I’m always glad to hear about interesting work. [Get in touch](https://www.nathangamache.com/contact/) · [Download resume](https://www.nathangamache.com/assets/nathan-gamache-resume.pdf) - [nathanpaulgamache@gmail.com](mailto:nathanpaulgamache@gmail.com) - [github/nathangamache](https://github.com/nathangamache) - [in/nathan-p-gamache](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-p-gamache/) - Michigan, USA --- Nathan Gamache · [nathanpaulgamache@gmail.com](mailto:nathanpaulgamache@gmail.com) · [GitHub](https://github.com/nathangamache) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-p-gamache/) · [nathangamache.com](https://www.nathangamache.com/)