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.
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 · 📍 Elizabeth, Colorado
- 🏛️ Co-founded Blockchain Training Alliance 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 Ouroboros Leios next-gen consensus algorithm (Cardano)
- ⚙️ Architected JavaScript smart contracts and dApps at Agoric
- 🗓️ 25+ years turning whiteboards into shipped systems
- 🧱 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
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 — 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 — the reference app on
Concord's
/v1: multi-user FastAPI/React/Docker, read · annotate · cross-link · map. - 🔌 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 → react → 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.
| Project | Architecture & stack |
|---|---|
| 🎮 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 | Self-hosted, multi-user journaling app — FastAPI + React + Docker, auth, 13 translations. End-to-end production build: backend, frontend, data, deployment. |
| 🤖 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Contributor — design and prototyping for the Ouroboros Leios consensus protocol (IOG). |
| 🪙 Agoric/dapp-offer-up | Contributor — sample dApp on the Agoric smart contract platform. |
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
Architect it. Ship it. 🏗️