Founder · Principal · CEO

Brandon Shuey

Thirty years shipping production systems. The operator who diagnoses the problem, then builds the fix.

Finds the operational or software problem that is costing a business the most, decides what should change, and carries it through architecture, build, and deployment. The same person diagnoses and delivers.

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shipping production systems since 1996
30 yrs
shipping production systems since 1996
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founder · CEO · CTO · architect roles
5×
founder · CEO · CTO · architect roles
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exit — Bottomdollar.com (2001)
$60M
exit — Bottomdollar.com (2001)
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live digital billboards on a platform built from scratch
1,500+
live digital billboards on a platform built from scratch

Experience

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

Every role below was hands-on. The person who set the architecture wrote the code and carried the pager.

1996 — present

  1. 2024 — present

    Founder-y

    Founder

    Product studio. Agentic AI platforms + the substrate underneath.

  2. 2018 — present

    SharkByte Consulting

    CEO / Founder

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

  3. 2012 — present

    Fliphound.com

    Co-Founder · CTO · Lead Dev

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

  4. 2010 — present

    Atomic Billboards

    Founder · President

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

  5. 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.

  6. 2002 — 2010

    KeyCentrix

    President · CEO · VP Tech

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

  7. 2000 — 2002

    Independent Consulting

    Senior SWE

    Java + .NET work across multiple consulting engagements.

  8. 2000 — 2001

    Bottomdollar.com

    SWE / DBA

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

  9. 1996 — 1999

    Koch Industries

    Electrical Engineer

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

Selected work

24 systems, organised by the problem they solved.

Pick a category on the left, a project in the middle. The panel on the right is the case: what was wrong, what changed, and what it was built with.

All work

24

  • SharkByte Consulting

    2026 — present

    Axiom Healthcare Services

    AI opportunity assessment for senior-care management

    AutomationOperationsDecision Systems
    Problem
    A senior-care management and consulting firm serving skilled nursing, rehab, and assisted-living operators wanted to know where AI would actually pay — not a generic chatbot.
    What we did
    Mapped the business and operating model, then built an AI opportunity map and roadmap: operational intelligence for the central team and facility leaders, referral and census growth, meeting-to-action automation, compliance readiness.
    Result
    A prioritised first build, scoped to the levers that move census, survey outcomes, and agency staffing cost.

    Technology

    An AI & Automation Opportunity Audit for a senior-care management firm. The output is not a deck: it is an operating-model map, an opportunity map ranked by economic impact, and a first-build roadmap centred on operational intelligence, referral/census growth, meeting-to-action automation, and compliance readiness.

    HealthcareAI / Agentic System
    AI opportunity auditOperating-model mappingRoadmap
    PrincipalCase study in progress

Capabilities

Hands-on across the entire surface.

01Agentic 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

02LLM 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

03AI Frameworks & Tooling

LangChainCrewAIElsa WorkflowsHangfireOpenAI RealtimeTesseract OCRAzure Computer VisionAzure AI Document IntelligenceHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorchStable Diffusion

04Languages

C#PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaDartSQLPHPC++CRubyCOBOL

05Backend & APIs

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

06Frontend

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

07Databases

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

08Cloud & Infrastructure

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

09Security & Compliance

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

10Architecture & Process

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

Education

University of Kansas — Lawrence, KS

B.S. Electrical Engineering · 1996

The work is the proof.

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

— Brandon Shuey