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Operations & Business Leader • Self-Taught Software & 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.
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.
Explore Leadership & Business Story →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.
Explore Technical Projects →Featured case study · Wi-Fi CSI
V1 closed · V2 hypothesis registered
Three ESP32 beacons · Two receivers · Eight nights
I built a system that identified Wi-Fi devices by apparent crystal-clock imperfections. Then I designed the controls that proved it was measuring the physical link instead.
Open the full investigationThe 19.6σ comparison spans nights and carries the drift floor shown above. The 0.2σ co-location result is same-instant.
recognition after recent enrollment
best channel-feature recognition
A cloned identity does not clone the path. Whether an attacker can reproduce that path is the V2 experiment—not a conclusion borrowed from V1.
Other work
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
Georgia statewide public-records pipeline & delinquent tax analytics — four counties live.
$152.34Muncollected delinquent tax liability tracked across four live Georgia counties
Federal solicitation & defense procurement intelligence engine.
100/100pricing-availability signal scoring algorithm across 4 keyword families
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
Built to find store IDs my team couldn't get. Grew into a national self-storage pricing directory.
46 daysconsecutive daily snapshots, zero gaps, 4,664 stores across 41 states plus DC and Puerto Rico
Live World Cup 2026 fan hub — host-city info, news, and live scores in one place.
48 hrsconcept to deployed production site
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
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
Operations leadership
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI & Agentic Systems
DevOps & Automation
Hardware / IoT
Languages
Operations & Leadership
Web & Data