Brandon has spent three decades building production systems across energy, commerce, pharmacy, outdoor media, fintech workflows, and AI-native product infrastructure.
FOUNDER / PRINCIPAL / CEO
BrandonShuey
30 years shipping production systems. Now building the agentic substrate underneath.
Serial entrepreneur, software architect, and hands-on builder designing AI-native systems that reason over real business data with audit trails, policy controls, and human review.
FOUNDER-Y / FOUNDER PROFILE
- Wichita, KS
- Active 1996 - present
- Architect / build partner
- Founder, CEO, CTO, and hands-on engineer
- Still close to the code, architecture, and production pager
SIGNAL OVER RESUME.
30 yrsshipping production systems since 1996
3 yrsexclusive on agentic AI infrastructure
9 ×active builds running in parallel
4.2Mlines per month through the agent workflow
11 ×founder / CEO / CTO / architect roles
$60MBottomdollar.com exit in 2001
01 / THE 8-SECOND READ
Signal over resume.
Founder-y is the current expression of a long operating pattern: identify a real business pressure, architect the software around the operator, then stay close enough to ship and own the result.
The work combines founder judgment with senior architecture: autonomous agents can move fast, but every meaningful system still needs policy, provenance, observability, and review.
The proof is shipped software, live businesses, and systems that survive contact with customers, operators, integrations, and real production constraints.
02 / TRAJECTORY
Founder, CEO, CTO, architect.
2024 - present
Founder-y
Founder
Product studio for agentic AI platforms, autonomous workflows, and the substrate underneath them.
2018 - present
SharkByte Consulting
CEO / Founder
Enterprise software delivery practice, now increasingly powered by Founder-y platforms and AI-native delivery loops.
2012 - present
Fliphound.com
Co-Founder / CTO / Lead Developer
Automated sales platform for digital billboards with 1,500+ live boards in market.
2010 - present
Atomic Billboards
Founder / President
Independent digital billboard network in Wichita and live operating test bed for Fliphound.
2009 - present
flexTrax Solutions
CEO / CTO
FSA processing POS platform architected and shipped in a 90-day build cycle, reaching $800k ARR within 10 months.
2002 - 2010
KeyCentrix
President / CEO / VP Technology
Led a 35-person independent pharmacy software company and drove a COBOL-to-.NET redesign with a 30-person development team.
2000 - 2002
Independent Consulting
Senior Software Engineer
Java and .NET consulting across multiple delivery engagements.
2000 - 2001
Bottomdollar.com
Software Engineer / DBA
Worked on an early online price-comparison engine for books and CDs before its $60M acquisition in 2001.
1996 - 1999
Koch Industries
Electrical Engineer
Built replacement SCADA systems for natural gas pipeline operations from the Wichita control center.
03 / STACK
Hands-on across the entire surface.
Agentic AI & LLM Engineering
Multi-agent orchestrationCrewAICustom agent meshesTool-calling runtimesStructured outputsMemory architecturesRetrieval pipelinesPolicy-weighted decisionsAudit trailsHuman-in-the-loopMCP servers
Models & Providers
OpenAIRealtimeWhisperAnthropic ClaudeAzure OpenAIGoogle GeminiLocal modelsProvider fallbackCost routingStreaming SSEVision models
AI Frameworks & Tooling
LangChainCrewAIElsa WorkflowsHangfireTesseract OCRAzure VisionDocument IntelligenceHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorch
Languages
C#PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaDartSQLPHPC++CRubyCOBOL
Backend & APIs
ASP.NET Core.NET 8EF CoreMediatRCQRSClean ArchitectureNode.jsFastAPIAzure FunctionsSignalRRESTWebSocketsJWTOAuthRBAC
Frontend
ReactNext.jsAngularFlutterVue.jsKnockout.jsTailwindshadcn/uiRiverpodOffline-first mobile
Data
Neo4jPostgreSQLMS SQL ServerMySQLMongoDBCassandraRedisCosmos DBVector storesEvent patterns
Cloud & Infrastructure
AzureAWSDockerKubernetesKafkaKinesisGitHub ActionsFront DoorKey VaultMulti-region failoverBYOK encryption
Security & Compliance
OAuthJWTRBACSSO / SCIMMFAEncryptionSSL/TLSSOC 2HIPAADEA ePrescribingPCIImmutable audit logs
Architecture & Process
ScalabilityOODTDDSDLCEvent-driven designGraph modelingDDDMulti-tenant SaaSWhite-label deploymentProduct visionMermaid specs
04 / EDUCATION
University of Kansas.
Lawrence, KSB.S. Electrical Engineering / 1996
The engineering foundation became the operating language: model the system, understand the constraint, build the control surface, then keep tightening the feedback loop.
05 / PROOF
The work is what shipped.
PLATFORM · Live
UnionEleven
A unified workspace where eleven disconnected tools become one coordinated team operating system.
CONSULTING · Live
SharkByte Consulting
Strategic technical advisory for founders navigating the gap between vision and shipped product.
BIOTECH · Live
Peptigrade
A grading and discovery platform for therapeutic peptides, from sequence to lab-ready candidate in hours.
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