Hey, I'm JR. I'm a software engineer who builds AI agents and the systems they run on. At Accenture Federal, I've spent 5+ years on federal platforms used by 20M+ Americans. I also designed and built MintLocke, where Lockebot, its AI agent, turns plain-language requests into automated, policy-checked transactions.
Previously: ML research at UTSA.
Building
Designed and built MintLocke and its AI agent, Lockebot, which turns plain-language requests into policy-checked transactions. TypeScript, Node, Python, AWS.
Turns GitHub activity into public changelogs and shipped-update pages. React 19 and TypeScript on an Nx monorepo, with Firebase Functions and GitHub App authorization.
A social mobile app on the DESO blockchain. The on-chain social experiment that led me into crypto and eventually into MintLocke.
My undergrad research project at UTSA. An MTCNN-based pipeline plus a custom CNN that detected face-swapped video at 70% accuracy across a hold-out set.
My first real ML build. A convolutional neural network image classifier I put together with classmates at UTSA — the project that got me hooked on AI.
Experience
Code · @bored-jrb
Podcast · The Social Ledger Report
A weekly show about crypto, AI, and where the internet is headed. I co-host with Leon on The Boost Network — we dig into stablecoins, agentic AI, on-chain markets, and what's actually working in the space right now.
Bookshelf
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Day-To-Day Essentials
- Editor
- Cursor, Google Colab, VS Code, Codex
- Terminal
- Ghostty + zsh + starship
- Languages
- TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go
- AI
- Claude Code, ChatGPT, N8N, Grok, Gemini
- Newsletter
- Substack
- Investor CRM
- Notion + GoHighLevel
- Cap table
- Carta
- Comms
- Telegram, Discord
- Workspace
- Basecamp, Claude Cowork
- Productivity
- Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive)
- Daily driver
- MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 2021) + Mac Mini (M4, 24GB)
- Keyboard
- Keychron K2 (75%, brown switches)
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 4
- Headphones
- AirPods Max (Midnight)
- Phone
- iPhone 17 Pro
- RTS
- Total War: Warhammer III, Total War: Rome II, Civilization VI
- Shooter
- Battlefield 6, Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- RPG
- Persona 5, Cyberpunk 2077, Shin Megami Tensei, Mass Effect 2/3, Skyrim, Elden Ring
- Top favorites
- Pokémon Colosseum, Total War: Troy, Minecraft, Baldur's Gate 3

























