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Engineer shipping production AI systems, developer tooling, and full-stack web apps.
Currently a civil/structural engineer at X-Energy, where I’ve independently delivered two internal client/server engineering applications, a cross-program GitLab analytics platform, and contributions to the APEX repo on the XEAI team. On the side, I operate a multi-tenant AI agent platform (chat.badland.ai, agent.badland.ai) on a stack that mirrors APEX — TypeScript, React, Vite, Express, MongoDB, AWS. 10+ PRs merged into OpenClaw and Langfuse in the past month.
Automated reinforced-concrete design tool for XE-100 nuclear structures. Ingests FEA shell forces, outputs ACI 349 / 318 compliant reinforcement designs. Sole developer.
Production multi-tenant AI chat platform — multi-model, voice, image gen, council mode. Stack mirrors APEX: TypeScript, React, Vite, Express 5, MongoDB, AWS Bedrock.
Multi-tenant AI agents that live in iMessage. Auto-provisioner spins up an isolated tenant on signup and texts the user via iMessage or SMS (carrier auto-detect) within seconds.
Production C/S engineering tools, analytics platforms, and platform contributions shipped at X-Energy. Internal — live links unavailable.
Unified seismic analysis toolkit. Modernized a Fortran 77 codebase (RSPMatch, Abrahamson 1993, Al Atik 2009) into a portable, scriptable Python CLI integrated with the pyStrata pipeline.
Executive Power BI dashboard backed by a custom Python ETL. Pulls issues, MR metrics, pipeline status, and velocity across nearly every engineering group at X-Energy.
Active contributor on the XEAI team while seated on civil/structural. Backend auth middleware, chat-streaming reliability, content-handling, GitLab webhook automations (Teams DM on @-mention), and full NucS group administration.
Independent work — the Badland ecosystem, side platforms, and tools I designed, built, deployed, and operate myself.
Multi-tenant AI agent hosting with Docker + gVisor sandboxing, automated provisioning, and per-tenant inference cost controls.
Production infrastructure across Hetzner, Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, Tailscale. OpenTelemetry to Langfuse, Sentry, UptimeRobot, GitHub Actions deploys with secret management.
Bidirectional dotfiles across 10 machines / 3 OSes. zsh + tmux + Starship, 200+ aliases, Claude Code skills, tmux-pane-scraping agent workflows, and a memory-sync layer between OpenClaw and Claude Code.
Raspberry Pi with a local wake-word model that detects "Lux" and triggers full-duplex conversation via OpenAI Realtime, Gemini Live, or Grok Voice — all backed by the Badland API.
Chrome extension with inline LLM actions, macOS menubar app with global hotkeys, and a mobile web terminal with a full developer keyboard (Ctrl/Alt/Esc/arrows) for pasting images straight into EC2 Claude Code sessions from a phone.
Rust CLI that fans a query to multiple LLM providers in parallel and renders side-by-side responses in CLI or TUI mode. Configurable single-provider or N-wide council.
Shared EPUB/audiobook web app — real-time per-reader progress bar and spoiler-gated tapback reactions that unlock as each reader catches up.
Dropship storefront with custom admin dashboard that auto-imports products from AliExpress, applies margin rules, generates ad copy + product photos via LLM/image models, and ships to Stripe.
Real-time macroeconomics dashboard with FRED data, scenario analysis, and institutional commentary.
Full-service web design and development agency for modern brands.
Insurance website for PIAAG client. Migrated from Vercel to a self-hosted nginx pipeline on Hetzner.
Christian AI initiative — intelligence in service of Jesus Christ.
Open-source contributions giving back to the libraries and frameworks the Badland stack runs on.
Roughly chronological. The X-Energy and Badland tracks run in parallel.
Clemson University · B.S. Civil Engineering, Aug 2017 – May 2021
Eagle Scout · EIT (Civil FE passed) · LEED Green Associate
I’m a civil engineer by degree (Clemson 2021, EIT, LEED GA) and a software engineer by obsession. After three years running large self-perform civil work at Kiewit — including a $100M shiplift drydock delivered three months ahead of schedule — I joined X-Energy in late 2024 to design XE-100 nuclear structures. Within months I was also shipping the internal tools the team uses to do that design work.
Two of those tools (Excalibur and Excito) are end-to-end client/server engineering applications that I designed, built, and packaged solo. A third (the GitLab analytics platform) surfaces cross-program engineering metrics to leadership. I also contribute to the APEX monorepo on the XEAI team, where I’ve fixed chat-streaming and cancellation reliability, shared backend auth middleware, content-handling, and authored internal Claude Code skills now reused across the team.
Outside of work, I run an independent platform — chat.badland.ai and agent.badland.ai — built on a stack that closely mirrors what X-Energy uses internally. The infra is all mine: Hetzner servers, AWS Bedrock inference, Cloudflare across 10+ domains, OpenTelemetry/Langfuse traces, Sentry, UptimeRobot, full GitHub Actions CI/CD, and a multi-tenant Docker/gVisor sandboxing layer. Everything on this site — from the React frontend to the WAF rules to the agent provisioner that auto-texts new users on signup — I built and operate myself.
I’m equally comfortable owning a system end-to-end as managing a 20-person field crew on a $100M build.