Founder · Principal · CEO

Brandon Shuey30 years shipping production systems —now building the agentic substrate underneath.

Wichita, KS Active 1996 — present architect / build partner

Serial entrepreneur, software architect, and hands-on builder.

Designs the substrate that lets autonomous agents reason over real business data — with audit trails, policy controls, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.

Writes the code. Ships the systems. Carries the pager.

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01 · The 8-Second Read

Signal over résumé.

30 yrs

shipping production systems since 1996

3 yrs

exclusive on agentic AI infrastructure

8×

active builds running in parallel

4,200,000

lines/month through agent workflow

5×

founder · CEO · CTO · architect roles

$60M

exit — Bottomdollar.com (2001)

02 · Trajectory

Founder, CEO, CTO, architect — five times over.

2024 — present

Founder-y

Founder

Product studio. Agentic AI platforms + the substrate underneath.

2018 — present

SharkByte Consulting

CEO / Founder

Enterprise software delivery. Increasingly built on Founder-y platforms.

2012 — present

Fliphound.com

Co-Founder · CTO · Lead Dev

Automated sales platform for digital billboards. 1,500+ live boards.

2010 — present

Atomic Billboards

Founder · President

Largest independent digital billboard network in Wichita. Live test bed for Fliphound.

2009 — present

flexTrax Solutions

CEO · CTO

FSA processing POS. Architected and shipped the initial platform in a 90-day build cycle → $800k ARR within 10 months.

2002 — 2010

KeyCentrix

President · CEO · VP Tech

35-person company serving independent pharmacy. Architected COBOL → .NET redesign with 30 devs over 2 years.

2000 — 2002

Independent Consulting

Senior SWE

Java + .NET work across multiple consulting engagements.

2000 — 2001

Bottomdollar.com

SWE / DBA

First online price-comparison engine for books + CDs. Wrote the 2,000-affiliate spider. Acquired 2001 for $60M.

1996 — 1999

Koch Industries

Electrical Engineer

Replacement SCADA for newly acquired natural gas pipeline. Automated thousands of miles from the Wichita control center.

03 · Stack

Hands-on across the entire surface.

Agentic AI & LLM Engineering

Multi-agent orchestrationCrewAICustom agent meshesTool-calling runtimesStructured output enforcementLayered system promptsFunction/tool registriesMemory architectures (episodic / semantic / working / long-term)Retrieval pipelinesDecision engines with policy weightingAudit & provenance trackingHuman-in-the-loopMCP server development

LLM Models & Providers

OpenAI (GPT-4o / Realtime / Whisper)Anthropic Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku)Azure OpenAIGoogle GeminiLocal modelsMulti-provider fallback chainsCost / latency / quality routingPrompt cachingStreaming SSEFunction callingVision models

AI Frameworks & Tooling

LangChainCrewAIElsa WorkflowsHangfireOpenAI RealtimeTesseract OCRAzure Computer VisionAzure AI Document IntelligenceHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorchStable Diffusion

Languages

C#PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaDartSQLPHPC++CRubyCOBOL

Backend & APIs

ASP.NET Core.NET 8EF CoreMediatRCQRSClean ArchitectureNode.jsFastAPIFlaskExpress.jsAzure FunctionsServerlessSignalRRESTWebSocketsSSEMCP serversJWTOAuthRBAC

Frontend

ReactNext.jsAngularFlutter (iOS + Android)Vue.jsKnockout.jsTypeScriptTailwindshadcn/uiRiverpodGoRouterDrift / SQLite (offline-first)

Databases

Neo4j (graph)PostgreSQLMS SQL ServerMySQLMongoDBCassandraRedisCosmos DBColumnar warehousesVector storespg_notify event patterns

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure (App Service, SQL, Functions, Front Door, Key Vault, Container Apps, AI services)AWSDockerKubernetesKafka / KinesisGitHub ActionsCI/CDMulti-region failoverBYOK encryption

Security & Compliance

OAuthJWTRBACSSO / SCIMMFAData encryptionSSL/TLSSOC 2HIPAADEA ePrescribingPCIImmutable audit logsAppend-only event sourcing

Architecture & Process

Software architectureSystem scalabilityOODTDDSDLCEvent-driven designGraph data modelingDDDMulti-tenant SaaSWhite-label deploymentProduct visionRequirements gatheringUMLMermaid-driven specs

04 · Education

University of Kansas — Lawrence, KS

B.S. Electrical Engineering · 1996

The work is the proof. Look at what's shipped.

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