James Kemp

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Boise, ID

Summary

I build products end to end and get them in front of people. React and React Native up front, Python and Node services behind them, LLM agents doing the work in between, and Docker and Kubernetes carrying it all to production. I came up through enterprise network engineering, so I design for how systems behave once they are actually running, not how they look on a diagram.

Skills

AI / LLM

  • LLM orchestration
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Claude & OpenAI
  • LiteLLM
  • LiveKit
  • ElevenLabs

Onchain & DeFi

  • x402
  • USDC
  • Decentralized finance

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL

Backend

  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Node.js
  • Supabase
  • Firebase
  • Redis

Frontend

  • React
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Expo
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Three.js

Infra / DevOps

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Mapbox / MapLibre

Payments & Comms

  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • Resend

Networking

  • Enterprise routing & switching
  • Firewalls
  • Network troubleshooting

Projects

blue wind (bwnd)

Pushing the borders of software

https://bwnd.app/home

  • Building bwnd, a platform whose unit of work is an “incubator”: a self-contained app running as its own container and served at its own subdomain, built and operated by an agent rather than assembled from templates.
  • Each incubator ships a FastAPI service with auto-mounted routes, a private database, its own MCP server so the app can be driven by conversation, and a Vite/React front end — with a live site and a draft preview.
  • Agents are woken by the owner, by customers using the public site, by scheduled tasks, and by the app’s own events, so an incubator acts on what it stores instead of only recording it.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, LLM orchestration, MCP, x402, USDC, Docker, React, Vite

GNETiX

Conversational AI for IT & network teams

Founder & Full-Stack Engineer, GNETiX AI — Boise, ID (Remote)

https://www.gnetix.ai/

  • Helped build a multi-tenant SaaS platform that lets IT and network teams operate on-prem infrastructure conversationally through Webex, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, and voice, powered by an LLM orchestration layer.
  • Contributed to a firewall-friendly architecture in which on-prem agents connect outbound over persistent WebSockets — eliminating inbound ports — while a cloud “Director” holds context and dispatches tasks.
  • Worked on routing across Claude and OpenAI through a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy with cost tracking and guardrails, with tool calls executed via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) against network gear, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS.
  • Helped ship real-time voice with LiveKit + ElevenLabs and enterprise auth (SSO, MFA, RBAC) with strict per-tenant isolation.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Next.js, Docker

Sublair

Social music streaming & discovery app

Founder & Full-Stack Engineer, MindFabric — Boise, ID (Remote)

https://sublair.com

  • Built a cross-platform (iOS + web) social music-streaming and discovery app for underground artists from a single React Native / Expo + TypeScript codebase.
  • Developed a gamification engine on Firebase Cloud Functions that generates personalized daily/weekly challenges, with anti-abuse controls (daily caps, cooldowns, velocity limits, dedup) to prevent XP gaming.
  • Implemented in-browser BPM and musical-key detection via essentia.js (WebAssembly), Stripe payments with download gates, SoundCloud OAuth, and a Mapbox map of artists by location.

Stack: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Functions, Storage), Stripe, Three.js

VMerge

Emergency veterinary transfer platform

Full-Stack Engineer, Karmatek Consulting LLC

https://vmergeapp.com

  • Built a subscription web platform that lets general-practice veterinarians request and confirm emergency patient transfers to nearby ER animal hospitals in real time.
  • Implemented a “waterfall” preferential-transfer engine largely in PostgreSQL (SQL trigger functions + a per-minute pg_cron sweep), using row-level security to hide queued transfer steps until each hospital’s turn and to unify web, SMS, and timeout paths.
  • Integrated Stripe subscriptions and self-serve billing, two-way Twilio SMS approvals, Resend email, and MapLibre radius-based clinic search; shipped with Docker and Kubernetes.

Stack: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, Supabase (Postgres, Realtime, Edge Functions), Stripe, Twilio

Valkyrie

AI network-operations platform for the VA

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Designed and built Valkyrie, an internal AI-driven network-operations platform that lets engineers query and act on infrastructure conversationally across the VA network, one of the largest in the world.
  • Applied an LLM-orchestration and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool-execution model to a secure, high-scale government environment, using on-prem deployment so sensitive data never leaves the network.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, on-prem LLMs, MCP, Docker

Open source

bbot

A small, friendly face you can drop into a web page

It follows your cursor, blinks on its own, and glances around when you leave it alone. 30 moods, nine one-shot reactions, 3.7 kB gzipped, no dependencies.

https://bbot.bwnd.app

Source on GitHub

Stack: JavaScript, SVG, npm

Manifold

Workspace manager for Claude Code

Run parallel AI coding sessions, organize them into collections per project, connect to remotes, and watch it all in grid view. Launches Claude Code or GitHub Copilot sessions from the same workspace.

Source on GitHub

Stack: JavaScript, Electron, xterm.js

History

Communications

United States Marine Corps — 2014 — 2018

  • Started as a field wireman, MOS 0612: running, terminating and troubleshooting tactical voice and data circuits.
  • Moved from wire into data, which is where the networking career started.

Technical Support

Gravity Payments

  • Front-line support for payment-processing products: merchant hardware, software and connectivity.
  • Resolved issues end to end while translating technical detail into clear guidance for non-technical users.

Network Engineer

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Engineered, maintained and troubleshot enterprise routing, switching and firewalls for VA facilities nationwide.
  • Diagnosed connectivity and performance issues across a large, security-sensitive environment.

Contact

[email protected]