JOHNNY PALUMBO · SOFTWARE ENGINEER · CHICAGO

I Build Software.

I spend my days building AI systems other companies actually run, and my nights building whatever I think is cool. This page is about the software and what it runs on.

01 · DAYS

AI systems in production for operations-heavy companies in lending, education, and hospitality. The work is the unglamorous part of AI: making a model call hold up inside a real business.

INTAKE

Pipelines that turn messy inbound documents into structured, scored records a team can actually work.

MESSAGING

Systems that talk to a company's real customers and never lose track of state.

REVIEW

Layers that check every file and every claim before anything ships downstream.

Every one of them runs the same way: a person keeps the final yes, accuracy is measured against locked eval sets instead of vibes, and the system lives in the client's own cloud when that's where it belongs.

02 · NIGHTS

LUMBINOANALYTICS.COM

A full-stack fantasy baseball platform I run for my own league: data pipelines, a forecast engine, matchup tools. Built like the systems above, because I don't know another way to build.

SHELF.MUSIC

Plex for my record collection: a ledger of what I own, a taste system, and a DJ pipeline underneath.

03 · HOW THE CODE GETS WRITTEN

Most of my output ships through an agent workflow I built for myself: work arrives as small written briefs, coding agents run in parallel worktrees, and everything passes automated tests and release gates before it lands. Agents read freely; nothing destructive runs without my explicit yes. The Claude Code skills I actually use are public in my claude-skills repo.

04 · TECHNOLOGIES

Most of what I write is TypeScript; the rest is Python. Postgres is the default answer. Orchestration runs in self-hosted n8n, managed as code and never hand-edited live. The code itself gets written with Claude and agent tooling. Cloud is whatever the system needs: Azure, GCP, Firebase, Railway, Vercel, Docker underneath most of it.

05 · CONTACT

Email is the best way to reach me: hello@palumbo.software