Geotechnical & civil engineer (E.I., PE-Geotechnical 2026) who builds his own software.
Ten years of Nevada ground — deep foundations, slope stability, utility-scale solar, materials testing — plus the Python, numerical modeling, and applied AI that make that work faster. The rare part isn't any one of those; it's getting all three from the same engineer.
🌐 thebigpicture.tech — portfolio, live tools, and how to hire me
| Surface-Wave Cavity Detection | A 2-D elastic (P-SV) finite-difference seismic simulator, rebuilt from my 2014 MS thesis. Fire a source and watch P, S, and Rayleigh waves scatter off a buried cavity — P and S separated live by wavefield divergence and curl. |
| Red Rock 3D Site Model | Real USGS elevation data of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada built into an interactive 3-D site block: terrain surface, subsurface geology in the cut faces, and a graded building pad. |
| Boring Log Generator | Enter soil strata, SPT values and groundwater; get a professional USCS boring log with hatch patterns and an SPT plot, exportable to PNG. |
| SoilBox | A falling-sand physics toy running real soil behavior — sand piles at its angle of repose, cohesive mud stands steeper, water finds its level. Built for my brother, who is the actual gamedev. |
| Diagram Gallery | Engineering figures generated from code and solved from the physics — including a flow net computed from Laplace's equation rather than sketched. |
All single-file, dependency-free HTML/JS/Canvas. Free to use, generated from code, and corrected in public when I get something wrong. Source: hestongrr/heston
Python · AutoCAD Civil 3D · Oasys · OpenSeesPy · MATLAB · Three.js ·
self-hosted LLMs · RAG · agentic / MCP workflows · finite-difference & FE modeling
I'm interested in where AI genuinely helps engineering practice — I run a production stack of my own and build tooling on top of it, so I can speak to what actually works in AEC from real use rather than from a demo.
🌐 thebigpicture.tech · 💼 LinkedIn · ✉️ heston.norcott@gmail.com · 📄 MS Thesis
Geotechnical consulting · engineering automation · applied-AI advisory · technical illustration — available for contract and expert work.