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About

I'm Chase Smith. Red Door Interactive is the name I build under — a one-person studio behind three products that span realtime voice, broadcast video, and game platforms.

Who I Am

I'm a hands-on engineer working out of the countryside, and I believe in getting the fundamentals right. I build whole products rather than pieces of them — which is how one person ends up writing audio DSP, a telemetry plugin, a broadcast pipeline and the infrastructure underneath.

An open notebook headed Principles and Notes on a weathered table at sunset, beside a Red Door Interactive mug, a stack of books and a barn in the field beyond.
A cabin workshop at dusk: a lamp over an open notebook and laptop, pinned maps and a Thoughtful software that lasts sign, with the red door visible through the window.

How I Work

I don't chase trends. Every decision gets weighed against the years a product has to keep running, not the week it ships in.

  • I take my time

    Quality shows up in the small details — in thinking a problem through before committing to it.

  • I think long-term

    Something I still want to open in two years is worth more to me than something clever I ship today.

  • I build things I'd use

    Every one of these started as something I wanted to exist. That's still the best reason I've found to build anything.

Chase Smith

Engineer & Founder

Building all three of these means moving between stacks constantly: Python and FastAPI one day, C# and WPF the next, Java and Spring Boot after that — with a good deal of TypeScript, C++, ffmpeg and AWS in between.

The through-line isn't the language. It's a preference for systems that keep running unattended and stay legible to whoever opens them next.

Python TypeScript C#/.NET Java C++ AWS

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Take a look at the work

Three projects, written up in detail — what each one does and how it's put together.

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