BRAEDEN KEENA

Independent Technical Consultant100% JSS · 2/2 five-star client outcomes

Operations & Business Leader • Data Engineer & Systems Builder

I built and sold a 500-acre business, then taught myself engineering.

I build data pipelines that know when they're lying to you — backed by operations leadership, validation rails, and embedded RF systems.

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Operations & Business Leadership

I’ve led teams in places where the stakes were real — 500 acres of operations, city‑wide programs, and engineering projects that couldn’t fail. My leadership philosophy comes from environments where excuses don’t help and clarity keeps people safe.

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Software & Systems Engineering

Built & shipped web applications, automated scraping pipelines, and federal classifiers (GAScout, GovScout, FindStorage, nacup.us) plus a WiFi-CSI RF hardware sensor array that hit 99.7% device-ID accuracy — then spent two months proving that number was measuring the room.

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Featured engineering · Flagship investigations

Pipelines that know when they're lying to you.

Three deep-dive investigations built around empirical verification: longitudinal pricing observatories, multi-jurisdiction public-record qualification, and hardware RF link forensics. Each designed around the controls that proved what was actually being measured.

Storage Price Observatory01

Both Sides of the Discount Moved

A seven-source pricing monitor covering 9,077 facilities, an August rate-hike anomaly, and a pre-registered bet on Public Storage's (PSA) Q3 earnings.

9,077facilities tracked daily across 129,704 advertised units
  • Sealed Q3 prediction: Pre-registered bet that PSA promotional discount and rate growth will decelerate YoY.
  • The August 1st event: 4,904 listings moved into "40% off" and every one received an immediate reference-rate hike (median +$45).
  • Living ledger: Logged the September 14 reset and its subsequent 12% partial walkback four days later in real time.
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Civic Data Integrity02

The Verification Filter

Turning 57,032 civic observations across 30,587 locations into 4 verifiable commercial opportunities without hallucinatory leads or naive matching.

57,032observations resolved into 4 prospect actions (37 → 10 → 4)
  • The naive scraping myth: Permits name contractors not tenants, addresses collide, and speculative filings have no buyer.
  • Tyler EnerGov reverse engineering: Extracted undocumented multi-tenant API headers across Olathe, OP, and KCMO.
  • Silent failures caught: Detected portals with silent 10,000-row query truncation caps and engineered audit rails.
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Embedded RF & Signal Processing03

Room or Radio?

A Wi-Fi CSI system identified devices at 99.7% accuracy. Physical controls broke the device-identity claim—and revealed a physical link state instead.

69.5Mclean beacon frames replayed across 8 paired overnight captures
  • The seductive number: 99.7% accuracy identifying ESP32 transmitters by subcarrier phase slope.
  • The hypothesis ledger: 29 distinct ideas killed across 35 rejection tests, proving what the feature wasn't before claiming what it was.
  • The double difference: Two receivers watching the same pair disagreed by 6.79 standard deviations.
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Other work

Selected work.

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DeliveredJul 2026Client

Multi-Platform Communications Consolidation

Confidential Upwork engagement — consolidated and reconciled 7,626 records across five messaging platforms into a single, defensible timeline for a legal proceeding.

7,626records parsed and normalized across five heterogeneous communication sources

★★★★★

“I originally searched for someone who could handle basic Python scripting, but Braeden delivered far beyond that. He anticipated needs I didn't even know how to articulate.”

Upwork client · 5.0

Python · ETL & data reconciliation · Timezone/DST-aware normalization

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Live2026

GAScout

Georgia statewide public-records pipeline & delinquent tax analytics — four counties live.

$152.34Muncollected delinquent tax liability tracked across four live Georgia counties

Python · Astro v5 · Vanilla JavaScript

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Live2026

GovScout

Federal solicitation & defense procurement intelligence engine.

100/100pricing-availability signal scoring algorithm across 4 keyword families

Python 3.11 · SAM.gov API v2 · SQLite

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LiveAug 2026

Health-Inspection Lead Pipeline

Public health-inspection records across two jurisdictions, deduplicated and recency-ranked into a call list — with most of the engineering spent on making sure the list can't be quietly wrong.

1jurisdiction researched in full, then deliberately not built

Python · Socrata SODA API · server-rendered HTML parsing

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Sunset2025–2026

FindStorage

A daily advertised-price tracker for self-storage — retired on 25 August 2026, and the reason the measurement behind it outlived the product.

4,664Public Storage facilities in the final snapshot, 25 August 2026

Python · Vanilla JavaScript · Leaflet.js

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Live2026

nacup.us

Live World Cup 2026 fan hub — host-city info, news, and live scores in one place.

48 hrsconcept to deployed production site

Python · Vanilla JavaScript · Leaflet.js

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Sunset2025

Chrostory

A digital time-capsule product — users seal photos & messages for future delivery. Built AI photo tagging/sorting on Firebase, sold ~40 ten-year capsules via Stripe, and pivoted into QR-code group photo drops for weddings & events before deliberately winding it down.

40+real beta users validated the product

Firebase · AI/ML image tagging · Stripe payments

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DeliveredAug 2026Client

Franchise Rankings Chart Generator

428 per-company sales and units charts generated from one spreadsheet, matching the publisher's existing output exactly — and handed over as something they can run themselves next year without me.

428per-company chart files from one command

★★★★★

“Project done quickly and on time.”

Upwork client · 5.0

Python · openpyxl · Plotly (version-pinned)

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Operations leadership

Running the thing, not just building it.

Operations work sits behind the engineering — permits, payroll constraints, safety programs, and the people who have to be somewhere at a specific time for any of it to work. Two of those jobs are written up in full.

Honey Lake Motocross Park

Founder / Sole Operating Partner · Honey Lake Motocross Park, Milford, CA · 2016–2018

A two-day race weekend that peaked at 6,500 attendees, ~1,200 of them racing, directed by a 120-person crew of staff, contractors and volunteers with full P&L responsibility throughout — and no payroll budget for any of them.

~500Acres acquired and returned to operation
1,200Riders at peak weekend
120Staff, contractors and volunteers directed
The rebuilt start straight at Honey Lake: groomed hard-pack dirt running toward the hillside track, with snow-capped mountains behind it.
Riders working through the rock section of the Honey Lake track while spectators watch from the bank above.

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School Crossing Guard Operations

Crossing Guard Operations Supervisor · All City Management Services (ACMS), Blue Valley USD 229, KS · 2023–2025

Ran crossing-guard operations for the southern half of Blue Valley USD 229 — 50 guards across 33 sites, staffed twice a day, which is 66 individual posts to fill every school day. No post went unfilled and no student was injured across the full tenure.

50Crossing guards hired, trained and managed
33Sites covered, staffed morning and afternoon
66Individual posts to fill every school day

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Background

The operations years and the engineering years aren’t as separate as they look on paper. Both come down to the same habit: don’t trust an unverified result, find where the system actually breaks, and be straight about what still doesn’t work.

Operations experience

Technical skills

AI & Agentic SystemsAgentic Engineering & AI Coding Tools (Claude Code, Antigravity/AGY) · Empirical Test Harnesses & AI Verification · LLM API Integration & Automated Workflows

DevOps & AutomationGit / GitHub · CI/CD (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify) · Windows Task Automation · Scheduled Data-Refresh Engines & Validation Rails

Hardware / IoTESP32 Firmware (C / ESP-IDF) · ESP-NOW & BLE Protocols · I2C & SPI Sensor Networks · RF Signal Processing (WiFi-CSI) · 3D Printing & CAD (OpenSCAD)

LanguagesPython (scraping, data pipelines, automation) · JavaScript / TypeScript · SQL · HTML5 / Modern CSS

Operations & LeadershipFull P&L Responsibility · Teams of up to 100 People · Vendor & County Permitting · Emergency Safety & Medevac Planning

Web & DataAstro v5 (Content Collections & SSG) · REST APIs & API Reverse-Engineering · Technical SEO & Schema.org JSON-LD · Leaflet.js & MarkerCluster Mapping · JSON & SQLite Data Architecture