https://github.com/kbennett2000/kbennett2000
https://github.com/kbennett2000/kbennett2000
docker ham-radio raspberry-pi self-hosted web3
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/kbennett2000/kbennett2000
- Owner: kbennett2000
- Created: 2026-05-21T15:59:32.000Z (29 days ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-06-12T23:13:48.000Z (7 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-06-13T01:10:04.460Z (6 days ago)
- Topics: docker, ham-radio, raspberry-pi, self-hosted, web3
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Hi, I'm Kris 👋
**Solutions Architect · I ship production software solo, at team speed, with AI · 25+ years across enterprise & Web3**
I'm a builder who teaches and a teacher who builds — but first, I ship. Over 25+ years I've worn a lot of hats (enterprise architect, solutions lead, co-founder, Chief Learning Officer, DevRel), and the thread through all of it is the same: take something genuinely complex, architect it, and get it into production.
What's different now is the leverage. AI-accelerated workflows mean I take projects from whiteboard to shipped, production-grade code *solo* — at a pace that used to require a full delivery team, without the team's cost or coordination overhead. The repos below aren't toys or tutorials; they're working, self-hosted, full-stack systems I designed and built end to end.
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## 💼 Available for work
I'm taking on **contract and fractional Solutions Architect** engagements. The sweet spot is teams who need senior architecture judgment *and* someone who'll actually build the thing, fast:
- 🏛️ **Architecture & technical strategy** — system design, API design, self-hosted and cloud infrastructure
- ⚡ **AI-accelerated delivery** — rapid prototypes, MVPs, and production builds, solo or alongside your team
- 🔌 **AI/LLM integration** — MCP tooling, grounded answer engines, AI-assisted workflows
- 🧱 **Full-stack product development** — React/Next.js · FastAPI/Node · Docker · self-hosting
📫 **kbennett2000 [at] gmail.com** · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbennett2000/) · 📍 Elizabeth, Colorado
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## 📚 Track record
- 🏛️ Co-founded [Blockchain Training Alliance](https://blockchaintrainingalliance.com/) and led it to a successful **exit in 2021**
- 🎓 **150,000+** learners trained globally through certification programs I designed
- 🏢 Built education programs and Centers of Excellence with **Deloitte, Air France, and the USPTO**
- 🟦 Developer Relations on [IOG's](https://www.iog.io/) **Ouroboros Leios** next-gen consensus algorithm (Cardano)
- ⚙️ Architected JavaScript smart contracts and dApps at [Agoric](https://agoric.com/)
- 🗓️ **25+ years** turning whiteboards into shipped systems
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## 🛠️ What I'm doing now
- 🧱 **Independent practice** — architecting and shipping production systems for clients, solo and AI-accelerated
- ⚙️ **Open-source systems** — turning weird ideas into hardware + full-stack apps, in public
- 🔌 **AI/LLM tooling** — MCP connectors and grounded-retrieval patterns that make AI useful on private data
## 🌟 Flagship: the Concord ecosystem
A coherent, multi-component system I designed and built end to end — **engine, reference app, AI connector, and curriculum** — as one architecture rather than a pile of scripts. It happens to serve Scripture; the point is the system design.
- ⚙️ **[Concord](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord)** — a LAN-first, fully offline
REST API: 13 aligned datasets, semantic ("verses about anxiety") search, and geography
that stays honest about what it can't locate. Published image, offline at runtime.
- 📖 **[songbird](https://github.com/kbennett2000/songbird)** — the reference app on
Concord's `/v1`: multi-user FastAPI/React/Docker, read · annotate · cross-link · map.
- 🔌 **[concord-mcp](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-mcp)** — an MCP connector
that lets Claude (and any MCP client) pull data straight from your own instance instead
of guessing. Looked up, never made up.
- 🎓 **[concord-tutorial-web](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-web)** →
**[react](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-react)** →
**[ai](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-ai)** — a three-course ladder
from "what's an API?" to reading the source to teaching an AI to ground its answers.
*Architect the whole system, then teach people to build on it — the whole loop, in public.*
## 📌 Selected projects
| Project | Architecture & stack |
| --- | --- |
| 🎮 [**lan-games**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/lan-games) | Real-time multiplayer game platform — 8 turn-based games in the browser, live multiplayer over Node.js + Socket.io. Concurrency, game-state sync, and room management, built solo. |
| 📓 [**soap-journal**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/soap-journal) | Self-hosted, multi-user journaling app — FastAPI + React + Docker, auth, 13 translations. End-to-end production build: backend, frontend, data, deployment. |
| 🤖 [**sourced**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/sourced) | Grounded answer engine comparing Brave Search's Web Search vs. LLM Context endpoints. Next.js 15 + Vercel AI SDK + Claude. |
| 🏦 [**hedera-native-rwa-dapp**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/hedera-native-rwa-dapp) | Compliance-gated Real World Asset token on *native* Hedera services (HTS keys, HCS audit trail, Mirror Node) with a React investor dApp. |
| 🌤️ [**weather-station-public**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/weather-station-public) | Full IoT pipeline — ESP32 + FreeRTOS with BME280/TSL2591/GPS sensors → MySQL on a Pi/Linux box → served over the LAN. Hardware to dashboard. |
| 🏎️ [**rc-lap-timer**](https://github.com/kbennett2000/rc-lap-timer) | Camera-based lap timing — Next.js + TypeScript + Prisma + MySQL on a Pi Zero 2 W, with motion-detection timing and an IR beacon mode. |
| 🟦 [**ouroboros-leios**](https://github.com/input-output-hk/ouroboros-leios) | Contributor — design and prototyping for the Ouroboros Leios consensus protocol (IOG). |
| 🪙 [**Agoric/dapp-offer-up**](https://github.com/Agoric/dapp-offer-up) | Contributor — sample dApp on the Agoric smart contract platform. |
## 🧰 Tech I reach for
**Web & full-stack** TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Next.js · Node · FastAPI · Tailwind
**Backend & data** Python · MySQL · Prisma · REST API design · Docker · self-hosting
**AI/LLM** MCP servers & connectors · grounded retrieval · AI-assisted delivery workflows
**Hardware & IoT** ESP32 · FreeRTOS · Raspberry Pi · C++
**Web3** Cardano (TS SDK, MeshJS) · Agoric SDK · Hedera (HTS, HCS, EVM) · smart contracts · dApps
**Plus** cloud & solution architecture · .NET · curriculum design
## 🤝 Let's connect
- 📄 **Resume** — [Markdown](RESUME.md) · [PDF](RESUME.pdf)
- 💼 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbennett2000/)
- 📫 kbennett2000 [at] gmail.com
- 📍 Elizabeth, Colorado
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Architect it. Ship it. 🏗️