Ryan McCauley

DEVELOPER · TINKERER · BUILDER

I help businesses turn manual work into software that runs itself — web apps, AI integrations, and automation, built end to end from East Texas. The proof ships: an iOS app live on the App Store, and a trading system that’s placed 100+ live trades while I sleep. After hours I chase whatever I’m curious about — a caffeine model on a watch face, tools that catch what the internet quietly deletes — and I take on the problems other people would rather skip.

Open to new developer and tech opportunities
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Special Projects

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Homunculus Core

Self-hosted, self-training AI crypto bot · 2026–Present

An AI crypto bot that trades live on its own — 100+ trades with a hard risk circuit breaker — and trains itself, scoring thousands of past trades to re-tune its own strategy from measured results instead of hunches. It’s the core of a private command center that runs my whole digital life: all behind a Tailscale mesh with zero public exposure, reachable from my phone, watch, or browser, with an assistant I can talk to — and yes, it even turns down my thermostat.

Self-Training AILive TradingTailscale MeshHome Automation
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Roost Assured

Two-sided marketplace with real money in it · 2026

A pet-sitting marketplace where owners post a job and background-checked sitters bid on it. Stripe Connect charges the owner, pays the sitter and keeps a cut; Checkr screens every sitter without this app ever touching an SSN. The interesting part is what it takes to be right about money — the charge sits outside the database transaction on purpose, every write to Stripe is idempotent, and the webhook can still reconcile a payment when the network drops mid-charge.

Rails 8.1Stripe ConnectCheckrReact 19
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Half-Life

Real-time caffeine, on your wrist · App Store

Know exactly how much caffeine is still in your bloodstream, right now. It runs the same pharmacokinetic model clinicians use, with 6 glanceable widgets across iPhone and Apple Watch — so you can time that last cup before it steals your sleep. Everything stays on your device. Live on the App Store.

SwiftApple Watch6 WidgetsOn-Device
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Socket Search

Your network, the way an attacker sees it · 2023–2024

Scans your network and hands back a clean visual map of every open door — no command line, no nmap wizardry required. It turns a security audit into something anyone can read at a glance and actually act on.

RubySecurity AuditVisual Report
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Tractor Beam

Catches what the internet deletes · 2023–2024

Watches public feeds and catches posts the moment they’re quietly edited, hidden, or deleted — the things someone hoped you’d miss. It polls harder when a source heats up, so nothing slips through. (It cut its teeth tracking deletions on r/UFO.)

RubyPythonOSINT
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Flight Log

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Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Swift
  • SQL

Frameworks

  • React
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • AngularJS
  • SwiftUI

Data & Infra

  • PostgreSQL
  • ETL design
  • REST & WebSocket APIs
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Tailscale

AI & Security

  • Claude Agent SDK
  • LLM integration
  • Token/cost optimization
  • Vuln remediation
  • SIEM & log monitoring
  • Anomaly detection
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Field Notes

Let’s build something strange.

Open to new developer and tech opportunities, plus select consulting and contracting. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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