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Hi I'm Bennett

I build software.

Software Engineer · Systems Architect · Project Manager.

Bennett Chamberlain

Projects

Lita Hotels

Lita Hotels

live

A robot hotel stood up in 90 days. Several robot types, an elevator on a reverse-engineered protocol, and guest requests over SMS.

Webbed Feet

Webbed Feet

live

Website for a Montreal radio show, drawn as a map of artists, collaborators, and the people who shaped them.

Companion Intelligence

Companion Intelligence

building

Private server for local models and agents, with an app store and Companion Memory on hardware you own. A 3D avatar talks in the room over WebXR, on those same models.

StudioTimes

StudioTimes

live

Studio booking and ops. The product is live, and so is the community next door.

Transcend Collective

Transcend Collective

live

Storefront for a Los Angeles streetwear label, sitting on Shopify.

Ciel Ouvert

Ciel Ouvert

live

Festival site for Ciel Ouvert, including a catalog of 127 Belgian films about the prison system.

genreless

genreless

live

Site and archive for genreless Media. Creative direction, release rollouts, photography, and commercial production.

miniCEO

miniCEO

live

A sales CRM that keeps the pipeline simple and does the busywork underneath. The product and the site.

Rent Fiesta

Rent Fiesta

live

Booking for party vendors. Planners find a service, vendors run the business, on the web and in the app.

Steady Fence & Railing

Steady Fence & Railing

live

Quote builder for a San Francisco railing company. Draw the rail, see the price, email the diagram.

Superhot Fabrication

Superhot Fabrication

live

Site for a metal shop. Process, gallery, and shop, with the shop's actual energy.

Baked Cravings

Baked Cravings

live

Site and marketing for a nut-free bakery. The brand later cleared $100M+ through deals with large retailers.

512 Counsel

512 Counsel

live

Criminal defense site for Laurie Drymalla in Austin. Former prosecutor, and a municipal court judge.

Law Offices of Paul D. Scott

Law Offices of Paul D. Scott

live

Site for a whistleblower practice. False Claims Act, IRS, SEC, and the other reward programs.

Event Ticketing Web App

Event Ticketing Web App

live

Guest, press, and hotel ticketing for the Mr. Brainwash Art Museum in Beverly Hills. Over 250,000 tickets issued, each an automated email with a QR code that scanned at the door.

Street Art iPad App

Street Art iPad App

live

Mr. Brainwash Paints. An easy Photoshop-style toy preloaded with his assets, splatter brushes, stencils, and layers.

Black Soldier Fly

Black Soldier Fly

live

Published paper on when and where the flies breed. I built the climate data behind the temporal patterns and the biogeographical hotspots.

This Site

This Site

building

Personal site, rebuilt. Next.js, 8px black frames, copy in the repo. No Firebase.

Experience

CI

Companion IntelligenceFull Stack Engineer / Client Engineer

June 2025 — Present · Los Angeles

Started the company and grew it past $2M. The ecosystem is an operating system, a digital-memory platform, an agent harness, and the Hub.

The Hub is the private server. Its store downloads apps and runs them on your own machine.

Local AITauriDocker
LH

Lita HotelsSystems Engineer

2025 — Present · Los Angeles

Lived on site for 90 days and shipped the robotics stack. Four robot types and the building's only elevator, on a multi-floor map.

Reverse-engineered the elevator protocol so robots can call it, ride it, and get off without trapping a guest.

RoboticsUDPPython
ST

StudioTimesFounder

Feb 2024 — May 2025 · Los Angeles

Founded the marketplace that books recording studios, then carried it through an exit.

Artists in all 50 states. Marketplace payments in 150+ countries. Hundreds of studios and thousands of sessions.

Next.jsPaymentsCI/CD
SO

Solwey ConsultingSoftware Engineer, part-time

Dec 2020 — May 2024 · San Francisco

Built Shopify stores for Transcend Collective, Baked Cravings, Roberi & Fraud, and Xavvi, then headless storefronts on Next.js.

Shipped WordPress sites, led a team of 8, and connected Salesforce and NetSuite for the William James Association's fundraising and grants.

ShopifyWordPressNext.js
MB

Mr Brainwash Art MuseumFull Stack Developer, for Thierry Guetta

Jul 2022 — Mar 2024 · Beverly Hills

Worked for Thierry Guetta, the pop artist and Oscar nominee known as Mr. Brainwash.

Led three engineers on museum ticketing. 80,000+ tickets and $2M+ in ticket revenue.

Shipped QR tickets, a door scanner, the gift-shop iPad, and Mr. Brainwash Paints.

FlutteriOSPythonAWS
JL

JLI StrategiesAutomated Trading

Sept 2020 — June 2022 · San Francisco

Helped manage $13M of personal money at the fund with automated trading strategies.

PythonTradingMarkets
KA

Kaspian IT ConsultingWebsite Developer & Project Manager

Dec 2018 — May 2020 · Blacksburg

Sold a real estate model that priced houses from beds, baths, acreage, and distance to schools.

Managed the outsourced developers who built it.

PythonPHPProject Management
CO

COINS, Virginia TechEnergy Analyst

Nov 2018 — May 2020 · Blacksburg

Invested up to $1MM for the Virginia Tech Foundation through Commodity Investing by Students, the student-managed commodity club.

Traded futures-based ETFs, ETNs, and covered calls. Built the models in Excel and Python, then pitched the trades.

PythonExcelCommodities
HL

Huntsman Leadership ScholarshipSigma Chi Scholar

Horizons Leadership Summit · Virginia Tech

Graduate of the Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit, a selective leadership program. About 1% of Sigma Chi alumni finish it.

Leadership
FC

Forte Capital GroupFintech Intern

May 2019 — Aug 2019 · New York

Wrote Python scrapers over appraisals and tax records so brokers could find leads. Client acquisition cost dropped 50%.

PythonExcelFinance
NL

Nicholas and Lence CommunicationsPR Intern

Dec 2017 — Aug 2018 · New York

Built media lists, modeled the spreadsheets, and ran pieces of each client's PR plan.

WritingExcel

Virginia Tech

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Minor in Economics

Aug 2016 — May 2020 · Blacksburg

About Me

I'm a software engineer, systems architect, and project manager. I build software that looks finished and actually ships.

I'm a passionate technologist. I care about being the best person I can be, and about making the world a better place.

Find what you love that fuels your vision. Iterate, improve, repeat, and make time to enjoy life.

Certification

Passed in 2024.

  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Interests

The regular ones, plus the ones that stick.

  • Pool
  • Soccer
  • Tennis
  • Golf
  • Skiing
  • Guitar
  • Basketball
  • Surfing
  • Poker
  • Hiking
  • French

Soft skills

How the work actually gets finished.

  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Teaching
  • Writing
  • Project management

Languages and frameworks

What I write the product in.

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Rust
  • C++
  • C#
  • Dart
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Flutter
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind
  • Django

Platforms and delivery

The three clouds, down at the network and identity layer, not the console homepage.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • Load balancing
  • DNS
  • PostgreSQL

Local and security

Companion Intelligence stays on the box. The mesh, the proxy, and the models do not leave the house.

  • Tailscale
  • Traefik
  • Forward auth
  • Local TLS
  • Signed headers
  • llama.cpp
  • MLX
  • Kali Linux
  • Linux hardening

Networking

CSI from WiFi, turned into a picture of the room. Fiber cabinets in San Diego with my dad: latency, and how hard the line can be pushed.

  • TCP/IP
  • DNS
  • TLS
  • HTTP
  • Wi-Fi
  • Routing
  • Firewalls
  • Latency

Hardware

Radios, robots, and the cabinets that carry the light.

  • Robotics
  • Embedded Linux
  • Sensors
  • Radios
  • Serial protocols
  • Edge devices

Models and training

Fine-tunes, not just prompts.

  • LoRA
  • Model training
  • Tinker
  • Adept
  • Evaluation

Data science

From a messy table to a pattern you can defend.

  • Statistics
  • Time series
  • Data collection
  • Pipelines
  • Cleaning
  • Visualization
  • Python

Economics

Virginia Tech, applied economics, and the methods that come with it.

  • Applied economics
  • Econometrics
  • Regression
  • Causal inference
  • Markets
  • Pricing

Writings

Crafted by

Colophon

  • 📍 LA, SF, NY

Project

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