I sit between the customer and the code. I sit down with a business owner, find where the work actually breaks, show them a fix they can click through, then build it and keep it running.
I run Chance IT Studio LLC, building flat-rate custom software for small businesses in real estate and the trades. I handle the full cycle myself: discovery, scoping, build, deployment, onboarding and support.
- SmokeSignal Dispatch: dispatch board and crew SMS for trades businesses. Runs a 98-tradesman roster. WebSockets, Supabase, Twilio, Netlify. smokesignaldispatch.com
- TCMVP: transaction management for real estate coordinators, built with a working TC as design partner. Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, Stripe. tcmvp.com
- Twin Rivers Concrete: client site with SEO, contact form and a gallery fed from their Facebook. twinriversconcrete.com
My homelab is a multi-node self-hosted network: ZFS storage, Docker Compose services, Caddy, Tailscale, Ansible, and decision records for the choices behind it.
Four years of AT&T retail sales and tech support, then six years running concrete crews as a foreman. I know how trades businesses run because I've worked on the job sites.
Solutions engineer, sales engineer, implementation or customer engineer roles. St. Louis or remote.