AI Engineer · Full-Stack Architect · SaaS Founder
34 years building software.
AI infrastructure in production — not in demos.
AI / ML Engineering
Not API wrappers. Multi-component AI pipelines, private model relay infrastructure, and real-time audio intelligence — all running in production.
7 production AI components in Ember Lead using gemini-2.5-flash with JSON Schema response constraints. Extracts structured data from fire dispatch text, raw address blobs, county property records, and Zillow HTML — all schema-constrained, all in production.
OpenAI Whisper consuming live Broadcastify fire scanner audio buffers, domain-prompted for fire-radio vocabulary ("Engine, working fire, address correction..."). Output feeds directly into the Gemini lead parsing pipeline. Audio to structured lead data, no human in the loop.
Built and operate a private AI API relay at api.noctusoft.com — upstream keys injected server-side, client apps never hold provider credentials. LiteLLM proxy on Azure VM, local Ollama on M4 Max hardware, Tailscale VPN routing, per-tenant rate limiting.
Plaid API → AI analysis → daily corporate and personal financial reports delivered via automated SMS and email. Tracks S-Corp payroll cycles, spending anomalies, and budget variances. Runs on a schedule, no manual intervention.
Two-stage address pipeline: GeminiAddressSplitter parses unstructured dispatch text blobs into individual address candidates; GeminiAddressVerifier cross-validates each against Google Maps geocoding results before triggering paid enrichment. Gates $0.XX-per-call enrichment APIs with zero false positives.
When primary data sources (ATTOM, RentCast, Zillow, county scrapers) return partial or null results, AI takes over: GeminiOwnerNameParser decodes county-formatted owner strings ("MASK RUSSELL L & PENNY C") for skip-trace APIs; GeminiPropertyEnricher estimates value, sqft, beds/baths; ZillowGeminiFallback extracts from raw __NEXT_DATA__ JSON.
Product Portfolio
SaaS products built solo from concept to production, plus infrastructure tools running in multi-tenant environments.
Real-time fire damage lead generation platform for restoration contractors. Monitors live fire dispatch feeds, enriches property and owner data through a 7-component AI pipeline, and delivers scored leads with verified cell phone numbers before competitors know the fire happened.
"From dispatch to door in 8 seconds."
EdTech SaaS platform running in production with its own API service. Live and serving users.
Live production application with dedicated API service on Railway.
escalatingreminders.com
Automated escalating notification service. In active development — launching soon.
AI-accelerated development training — 3-day and 5-day intensive VibeCode workshops plus hands-on AI development consulting. Live booking and scheduling, teaching the workflow behind everything else on this page.
Instructor-authored captions for YouTube videos — accessibility tooling that lets educators create and publish custom captions for their video content.
api.noctusoft.com
Multi-tenant relay infrastructure proxying SendGrid, Twilio, Square, Google APIs, and the private 28-model AI relay. API keys injected server-side; tenants authenticate against Noctusoft credentials only. Per-tenant rate limiting, IP allowlists, domain enforcement.
a20xx.com · Darkware, Inc.
World's first multi-format laser tag tournament. Founded 2000, still running. 18+ tournaments, 15+ systems, 4 countries. If a side project can outlast most startups by 20 years, you're doing something right.
Open Source
Libraries and tools built for production use, then published — across rvegajr and the YOLOVibeCode organization. Selected highlights below.
odata-active-record · sqlite-db-odata4 · mongo-db-odata4
OData v4 for three databases, one pattern. Full implementations for SQLite and MongoDB — batch operations, delta links, FTS5 full-text search, aggregations, computed properties — published as modular npm packages with Express and Astro integrations. The Active Record layer wraps it all in ORM-like simplicity.
Auto-tiling, cross-platform terminal that follows you across devices. Seven tiling presets, one-click multi-pane tabs, full session restore with 100k-line scrollback, and cross-device session mirroring over PeerJS. YoloTerm is the fully-native successor — Swift/SwiftTerm/Metal on macOS, WPF/ConPTY on Windows, shared interface contracts.
github.com/YOLOVibeCode/ez-odata-api
Self-hosted governed data-access platform: connect a SQL database and serve OData v4, REST/JSON, and an MCP server behind one RBAC and audit pipeline. The platform-scale evolution of the OData suite.
github.com/YOLOVibeCode/yolowhisp
Fully local speech-to-text for macOS — whisper-cpp accelerated on the Metal GPU. An open-source replacement for Wispr Flow and superwhisper: no cloud, no subscription, your audio never leaves the machine.
github.com/YOLOVibeCode/privata
Privacy by design, data by default — a drop-in GDPR/HIPAA compliance library for healthcare applications that makes compliance invisible to developers.
opencode-enterprise-shield · codebleach · shield-prompt
Keep proprietary code out of LLM context: sanitize output on the way to the model, desanitize on the way back. A Go plugin for opencode with a Homebrew tap, plus standalone C# sanitization utilities for copying codebases to AI-safe peer folders.
github.com/YOLOVibeCode/art-sync-cli
Free open-source drop-in replacement for Devart dbForge Schema Compare and Data Compare CLI tools — database schema and data diffing without the license fee.
github.com/YOLOVibeCode/devibe
An npm utility that cleans up after an intense vibe coding session — because AI-accelerated development leaves artifacts, and somebody has to sweep the floor.
Issue tracking and test case management that drops into any JavaScript application. Backend-agnostic, with an AI integration prompt and a reference design for an autonomous QA pipeline — bug recording to Playwright spec to resolution.
AI-powered oral examination platform for higher education — the open foundation of the StuPath avatar work. LTI 1.3 integration for direct embedding in university learning management systems.
ez-db-codegen-core · ez-db-schema-core · ez-api-urf-net
15+ code-generation tools refined over a decade. Point a CLI at a SQL Server database and generate a typed schema, Handlebars-templated code, EF Core packages, or a complete REST API. Producing production data layers since 2017.
github.com/rvegajr/ez-api-mocker
A working mock API from a JSON file. Reads a definition, replays recorded responses, and stands up an endpoint — frontend development against services that don't exist yet.
github.com/rvegajr/ez-xls-financial
Excel-exact financial functions for .NET — returns precisely the number Excel would for a given financial function. Built for systems where finance teams reconcile application output against spreadsheets.
github.com/rvegajr/image-ocr-renamer
Recursively OCRs defined regions of scanned images and renames files from the extracted text. DPI-aware region scaling, change detection to skip already-processed files. Tesseract + GraphicsMagick.
All repositories at github.com/rvegajr and github.com/YOLOVibeCode
Technology
Mainframe → client/server → web → mobile → cloud → AI. Still here. Still shipping.
Career
Mainframe COBOL to multi-model AI pipelines — every contract, every client, 1992 to now.
Texas S-Corp delivering enterprise consulting and SaaS products to 20+ clients across healthcare, energy, financial services, aviation, and government. Built Ember Lead / Tankroom from concept to production. Operate a private 28-model AI relay on Azure. The contracts below all ran under this banner.
MobileFrame app recording sow body-composition scores — saves employees 15 hours/week. Dynamics SL data-entry automation saving another 10 hours/week. Unblocked stalled on-premise → Azure VM migration. Real-time farm analytics in PowerBI.
Architected HIPAA-compliant iOS clinical therapy management app — 100+ TestFlight deployments, zero production incidents. Node/TypeScript backend with bidirectional Azure Service Bus sync, entity-level encryption, EN/FR/ES internationalization, and Fastlane pipelines cutting deployment time 70–85%.
Full-stack multi-tenant education portfolio platform, live in production at rubriqflow.com with 99.9% uptime. Role-based access across Super Admin / Org Admin / Faculty / Students, AI-powered tutoring backend, Playwright E2E coverage, SendGrid workflow automation.
Modernized enterprise flight deck management platform on a Turborepo monorepo. Resolved pipeline failures blocking all deployments, fixed TypeScript builds across 15+ workspace packages, and cut iteration time 70–85% with a Docker–Azure parity validation system. 15+ PRs merged in one month restoring stability.
Tribal member benefits administration. Refactor reduced code duplication 70%; data-annotation-driven Blazor form components boosted productivity 60%; MSSQL optimization cut processing time 80%. Modernized legacy .NET 4.5 Web Forms to Blazor .NET 6.
Rewrote legacy PHP 5.2 CodeIgniter application to PHP 8.1 / CodeIgniter 4. AWS OCR form processing cut data-entry effort by 50%.
Delivered the Parsley acquisition data migration 50% faster than projected. Built Unifier Conduit & P6 Conduit NuGet SDKs taming legacy SOAP integrations, T4/RazorEngine code generation (+40% developer efficiency), and ArcGIS spatial query tuning — 90% faster.
Dockerized a legacy VTiger PHP 5.2 CRM for Ubuntu 22.04, rewrote ASP.NET Web Forms to Blazor .NET 8, and built a fully functional browser dialer (two lines, transfer, voicemail) on the Twilio REST API.
Honeycomb effort across PeopleMedia properties (OurTime, SPM, BPM). Added Facebook signup/login and rewired properties to the new CoreAPI Match.com backend.
Emergency room admittance software deployed in 100+ hospitals. Built a Managed Cache with COM interface delivering a 1,000× performance improvement by eliminating repeated database calls.
High-availability careers site during the airline merger, fed live from Peoplesoft and Taleo. Led the build of a high-traffic Facebook application (10M+ users) and a custom Dev→QA→Prod AWS deployment pipeline. Zero downtime through peak campaign events.
Army & Air Force Exchange Service. Mobile-minutes tracking across departments, replaced the SharePoint corporate checkbook application, and converted a legacy PGP flow to OpenPGP for mainframe credit-card uploads.
Rewrote an MS Access REO application to WebAPI/MSSQL/Bootstrap, eliminated RBAR cursor queries for set-based T-SQL, and took one reporting query from 10 minutes to 2 seconds.
15 years of independent consulting across financial services, banking, and mortgage industries. Built WinForms data conversion tools for TD BankNorth, PHP web applications, DotNetNuke custom modules, and open-source contributions (Delphi OCR app, PHP schedule generator LGPL3). Clients included Amerifunds, Bayview Funding, Interbay Funding, and Meritech Mortgage.
Redesigned Bell Canada telephone award system on MVS/ESA. Replaced 10 VSAM files with a modular architecture — reduced development time by 25%. Microfocus COBOL, XDB/DB2.
Where it started. COBOL II loan acquisition conversion systems on OS/MVS/ESA. COBOL/SAS/JCL subsystem redesign achieving 80% efficiency improvement. Performance tuning across COBOL, SAS, Assembler, TSO CLIST, and IMS — 60% run time reduction. The kind of constraints that make you a better engineer everywhere else for the rest of your career.
Notable Clients
C2C engagements through enterprise staffing firms. Every sector. Every scale.
Tribal member benefits admin. Blazor components, SOLID refactor, .NET 6 / CosmosDB.
Parsley acquisition data migration. Spreadsheets → MSSQL + Unifier. Fortune 500 E&P.
High-availability career site (AWS full stack), Facebook app (10M+ users), REST API, deployment pipeline tooling.
Army & Air Force Exchange Service. Mobile minutes tracking, SharePoint checkbook replacement.
Emergency room admittance software. C++/C#, 100+ hospital deployments, Managed Cache with 1000x performance improvement.
Facebook login/signup integration across PeopleMedia properties. CoreAPI rewiring.
Custom financial tooling and enterprise software consulting.
WinForms data conversion — customer data, commercial real estate, mortgage loans.
Giving Back
We discover what people love — then we use technology to help them do more of it, and teach them to bring others along.
Founded in 2024 to put software to work against food waste and homelessness. The primary initiative is a food-redistribution platform: restaurants and local businesses donate excess food, volunteer couriers deliver it to shelters and individuals in need, and the platform tracks tax write-offs for donors and service hours for volunteers.
Now recruiting board directors. To help shape a young Texas nonprofit from the ground floor, visit worthlesshauntedmeat.org.
Contact
Available for C2C contract engagements. Enterprise consulting, AI pipeline development, SaaS architecture, full-stack engineering.