Software engineer · Problem solver

Building systemsthat endure.

Four decades of engineering business-critical software—from IBM i and enterprise platforms to modern web systems and AI-assisted development.

Portrait of the software engineer behind bkb59.dev40 YEARS / STILL BUILDING
01 / ABOUT

Experience with
forward momentum.

My career started with DOS scripting in 1986 and grew through nearly every layer of business technology: development, architecture, database design, systems integration, configuration management, operations, and long-term support.

I've worked across telecommunications, manufacturing, trucking, and printing—often on the systems a business simply cannot afford to get wrong. Today, I bring that same practical rigor to AI agents, harness engineering, MCP servers, and modern development workflows.

40years in technology
4major industries
3academic disciplines
∞commitment to learning
02 / FOCUS

Where I create
the most value.

01

Enterprise Engineering

Designing, modernizing, and supporting reliable business systems with deep expertise in IBM i, RPG Free, COBOL, CL, and SQL.

02

Modern Development

Connecting proven platforms to contemporary tooling with Python, JavaScript, Node.js, React, cloud services, and thoughtful automation.

03

AI-Assisted Engineering

Building agent loops, harnesses, MCP servers, and practical AI workflows that improve correctness, maintainability, and delivery.

03 / TOOLKIT

Technology serves
the problem.

IBM iRPG FreeSQLPythonJavaScriptCOBOLCLNode.jsReactPowerShellAWSMCPVB.NETVBAConfiguration ManagementDatabase Architecture
“Choose the right technology, then make the solution clean, readable, minimal, efficient, robust, reusable, and scalable.”— ENGINEERING PRINCIPLE