Monroe, Louisiana
Full-stack engineer and technical program manager.
Software that holds up under real money, real time clocks and real crowds.
Sixteen years building and running production software, most of it at Plondo Network: direct-sales platforms for 500K+ users, a live gameshow for 20K+ concurrent players, and payroll for 10K+ clients. Recently: five iPhone games, a Hue app on seven Apple surfaces, and a camera-based heart-rate SDK.
Email: joseph@venabledove.com
GitHub: LeporatiDGM
02 · Live on the App Store
Small games. Made all the way through.
A one-person iPhone studio. I opened it on June 29, 2026, and twenty-three days later it held seven games. Five of them are live on the App Store.
Every game splits into a pure, fully tested Swift engine and a thin SwiftUI and SpriteKit shell. Every one goes through the same pipeline: spec, test-driven core, shell, meta, services, scripted store capture, a TestFlight hard stop, and my sign-off. AI agents write much of the code under adversarial review, and the playbook tells them to check every agent claim against ground truth.
Determinism is the house discipline. Seeded randomness and a fixed 60 Hz timestep make each daily challenge identical worldwide and let recorded inputs replay exactly. All art is procedural and all audio is synthesized at runtime, so no game ships a single audio file.
The ad rules respect the player: no ads during play, no banners, no tracking prompt at launch, Remove Ads from day one, rewarded ads only when you ask, and never an ad after a daily challenge.
8×8 block puzzle
Clears catch fire. Fire spreads.
Every cleared line seeds embers. Clear through one and its whole cross-line detonates, and the blasts cascade. Chain enough and the Inferno clears the board.
Real-time castle defense
Grab. Fling. Splat. Hold the fort.
You are the kid’s giant finger. Fling crayon invaders skyward and let gravity turn them into pencil shavings. No blood, ever.
Turn-based artillery
Tap mid-flight to burst the shell.
Six shells against a seeded wind, and online play with no server: phones swap only their inputs and replay them to identical boards.
Calm color puzzle
A gradient waiting to bloom.
Swap tiles until the color flows edge to edge. 128 levels, no timer.
Untangle logic puzzle
Drag glowing pins until every crossing clears.
48 knots, and every one is solvable by construction.
03 · Live on iOS · Mac, tvOS and visionOS in resubmission
One Swift codebase, seven Apple surfaces, first written by seven agents at once.
“Built by 7 parallel agents writing code simultaneously.”
The first real commit added 60 Swift files, 5,074 lines and 68 passing tests. It grew into a paid App Store app that runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro, Apple Watch and widgets, and talks straight to the Hue Bridge over your local network.
Command is an independent app that works with Philips Hue. Philips Hue is a trademark of its owner; no affiliation is implied.
04 · Analysis engine in production · Client confidential
Heart rate, breathing and stress from a phone camera. Wellness readings, not medical ones, and not one image leaves the phone.
A 30-second face scan becomes three averaged color numbers per frame: 6 to 15 KB for the whole scan, and no image ever leaves the phone.
66 bpm · confidence high · signal quality 0.94
I wrote about 8,500 lines of research first, across nine documents and more than fifty papers. Then I built the pipeline into a health-and-wellness client’s app, a local-first wellness app, and finally an SDK for other apps. Native Swift, Kotlin and React Native code handles capture; an edge engine does the signal processing in about 0.7 ms of CPU.
05 · In production since 2012 · Client confidential
Fourteen years of the commission engines behind 500K+ users. Kept alive in production, then rebuilt from scratch.
Since 2012 I’ve run the back office that tracks sales, genealogy trees and payouts for a family of direct-sales brands. When a production outage pinned response times at 11 seconds, I traced the root cause and ended it, then led the performance work that cut p90 latency by 47%, brought worst-case responses under 6 seconds, eliminated dashboard abandons and identified $1,400 to $2,100 a month in infrastructure savings. I also put a priority-queued Lambda and SQS layer in front of the webhooks.
In 2026 I led two ground-up rebuilds with Claude as co-engineer: a serverless, white-label, multi-tenant back office (1,000+ commits in 30 days) and a multi-tenant commerce and commission platform (430+ commits and 1,595 tests in 11 days).
search_path doesn’t isolate tenants, so the design moved to a Postgres role per tenant with SET LOCAL ROLE in every transaction.06 · Production pilot · Client confidential
AI that drafts city agendas from a city’s own records, and cites every claim.
Lead engineer and top contributor, working alongside the founder, since August 2026.
The product prepares agendas, staff reports and council packets for cities, counties and boards, and every AI claim traces back to a page of a real document. I audited the infrastructure and rebuilt it in a new AWS account with Terraform and gated deploys, built the staff admin portal on its own trust boundary with an audited view-as, fixed ingestion and retrieval, and shipped a pilot customer’s full punch list to production: 18 Tier 1 and 11 Tier 2 items.
07 · Web live · Coming to the App Store
A social reading app for iPhone, web and an edge API, from a blank repo to App Store submission in a month.
“Sell insight and personalisation. Never sell access.”
Shelves, goals, reviews, clubs, buddy reads, a yearly Wrapped and encrypted direct messages, at parity across app, web and API, running entirely on Cloudflare. A Paper & Spotlight redesign collapsed seven themes into one editorial base.
llms.txt, /agents.md and markdown content negotiation.08 · How I work
About 48% of my 8,492 commits are co-authored with Claude, delivered through specs, written ledgers, adversarial review and a human gate before production.
For Command I ran development as an agent organization with twelve roles. A lead agent only delegates; an engineering lead manages engineer, reviewer, QA, release and designer agents, and a marketing lead manages social and support. New roles and every release need my approval.
The Android port ran as subagent-driven development. A controller agent kept a written ledger, dispatched implementers into parallel git worktrees, sent every task through spec and quality review, and predicted a merge conflict before it happened: 80 Kotlin files, 52 tests and 28 commits in one day.
INTERFACE FACTS (downstream must use these).Only a human merges to production.
09 · Other builds
Shipped, in development, or in research.
BUILT · NOT LAUNCHED
The Million Dollar Homepage, rebuilt on the edge in one day.
A million pixels in 5×5 blocks: $25 minimum, $1 a pixel, $1,000,000 for the page. One database row per block, so nothing can be sold twice: the database decides, not application code. Moderation fails closed.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Multi-tenant ticketing for a minor-league hockey club: seat maps, wallets, gate scanners and resale.
Entry codes are short-lived Ed25519 signatures that admit exactly once. Weaken the tenant guard and exactly four negative-control tests must fail. Adding a second club means adding a row.
LIVE
Geofenced time clocks with face matching. No more buddy punching.
Clock in on your phone inside a geofence, with a photo matched to your base image; walk out of the fence and you’re clocked out. In production since 2019.
R&D
Reverse-engineered a low-cost health band’s Bluetooth protocol.
Research on devices I own. After authenticating with the band’s default password, I mapped 13 features from its command set and decoded six live vitals, validated against an Apple Watch. Documented opcodes only, no fuzzing, and the firmware was left untouched.
PROTOTYPE
A 2D character sheet turned into a rigged 3D hero, entirely on a MacBook GPU.
Local image-to-3D on Apple Silicon, then a 1,155-line headless Blender script that decimates, rigs, skins, adds facial shapes and animates. Known limitation: the generator fused the arms to the apron, so the animations keep them close to the body.
10 · Commit history
Every day I committed, December 2019 to September 2026. Drag across the chart, or focus it and use the arrow keys.
2026-08-05 · 178 COMMITS · PEAK DAY
11 · By the numbers
Hover a figure to see it on the commit record.
Tracked lines by language, approximate: TypeScript ~1.67M · Python ~164K · JavaScript ~143K · SQL ~120K · Swift ~118K · PHP ~48K · Kotlin ~7.7K.
Also: 717 active days, 56 GitHub Actions workflows, 22 Wrangler configs, 47 Terraform files and 19 app bundle IDs.
12 · Lessons from production
What broke, what caused it, and what changed as a result.
| Issue | Cause | Change |
|---|---|---|
| The heart-rate engine reported exactly double. | A frozen camera clock. | Frames with frozen timestamps are now rejected by name. |
| A pulse that correlated 0.067 with a chest strap. | An iOS fallback faked color from brightness, so the engine was measuring floating-point rounding noise. | Found, explained and fixed. |
| Hand-typed test fixtures drifted: 240 × 0.12 = 28.799999999999997. | IEEE 754 floating point. | Fixtures are generated, never hand-typed, and Swift and Kotlin assert them exactly. |
| A game rule shipped with no effect. | The test suite showed it was behaviorally inert. | Rewritten on day three. |
| A test harness that could not fail. | Tests that could pass no matter what. | Negative controls: weaken the rule and exactly four tests must fail. |
| An App Store reviewer called the Mac app a cramped menu-bar port. | It was a port, not a Mac app. | Rebuilt as a real window app, then audited all of tvOS for the Siri Remote. |
| A 401 storm in production. | Traced live from wrangler tail. | Fixed, then encoded as a permanent invariant with tests. |
| AI agents reported unfinished work as done. | Accepting agent reports without verification. | Every agent claim is checked against ground truth. |
13 · Tools and experiments
Smaller builds, tools and experiments.
| Name | What it is | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| Floaty | A MacBook notch companion that signals when a Claude Code session needs attention. | Swift, AppKit, local LLM, Claude Code hooks |
| AIMemory | Fully local long-term memory and a code graph, injected into every Claude Code session. | Python, MCP, Qdrant, Neo4j, tree-sitter |
| AI Project Map | A knowledge graph of 26 projects, 1,247 nodes and 7,418 edges, that agents consult before cross-project edits. | Python, SQLite, hand-rolled force layout |
| PlondoLLM | A 12-module course I wrote for myself, from derivatives to a GPT trained from scratch on my Mac. | Python, PyTorch (MPS), Jupyter |
| FunnelBot | Chat your way to a published, lead-capturing landing funnel. 226 commits in 10 days. | TanStack Start, Claude tool use, SSE |
| Studio Command | Mission control for a portfolio of indie games, with a live event feed. | FastAPI, DuckDB, Streamlit, Docker |
| VDGKit and the Game Center provisioner | A shared game SDK with protocol-plus-Noop services, and a 1,082-line Ruby tool that provisions achievements through the App Store Connect API. | Swift, Ruby, Fastlane |
| venabledove.games | A storefront that tests its own content contract and shows only real screenshots. | Static HTML, Cloudflare Pages, Playwright |
| AWS Stack Visualizer | A live canvas where packets move between production resources in proportion to real traffic. | Canvas, CloudWatch |
| Perf-audit Lambda | Writes p50 to p99 latency reports every six hours. | Python, CloudWatch Logs Insights |
| Thirteen ways to build the hub | 13 complete site directions for a Monroe health-food store founded in 1976, in one day. | HTML, CSS, Cloudflare Pages |
| Browser podcast studio | A recording studio in a browser tab for a book-club podcast: live mic meter, takes, transcripts and chapters. | Cloudflare Stream WebRTC, Workers AI |
| Route optimizer | Garbage-truck routing by genetic algorithm and simulated annealing, written in PHP. | PHP 8, CodeIgniter 4 |
| Edge strangler gateway | An edge CMS that owns a few endpoints of a legacy API and proxies the other 100+. | Hono, Cloudflare D1, R2, KV |
| Prala platform infra | Infra, deploy and edge owner on a team-built product, including a share-link edge worker targeting under 80 ms at P95. | Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, GitHub Actions |
| rPPG research compendium | 8,500 lines and 50+ papers on reading vitals from a camera, written before any code. | Research, DSP |
14 · Experience
Plondo Network · Full Stack Developer / Technical Program Manager · March 2012 – present
Civic AI company (client confidential) · Lead engineer and top contributor, working alongside the founder · August 2026 – present
VenableDove Games · Founder and sole developer · June 2026 – present
CheapOh! Network · Founder · 2010 – 2012
Real-time penny auctions; 25K+ registered users.
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, React, React Native, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, NGINX, AWS, Azure, Git.
Interests: Indie game development, scalable architecture, mobile apps, AI tools.
15 · Contact
Based in Monroe, Louisiana. Central Time.