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Software & AI Architecture

The operator who also builds the tools: local-first AI, autonomous agents, and PropTech on a Node/Express stack — private inference over Ollama, streamed to real apps.

James (Mike) Andrews architecting local-first AI systems at a workstation

Approach

What I architect

I design and ship local-first AI systems: a private assistant that streams from a home inference hive over a Cloudflare tunnel, a Node.js/Express gateway running local Ollama models with an autonomous, self-building backlog agent, and PropTech that connects property operations to modern tooling. Deep on the multifamily software stack (Yardi, RealPage, RentCafe), I build the bridge between operations and code.

Capabilities

What I bring

  • Local-first AI & private inference (Ollama)
  • Autonomous / agentic build systems
  • Node.js & Express gateways and APIs
  • Digital transformation of operations
  • PropTech & resident-facing tooling
  • Automation, integration & Cloudflare edge

Portfolio

Systems I've built

Local-first AI

Ask Myk

Private AI assistant streamed over a Cloudflare tunnel from a local inference hive, with an iOS companion app.

Private · tunnel-served · iOS
Engine / agents

Myks Brain engine

Node.js/Express gateway running local Ollama inference with an autonomous, self-building backlog agent and eval/learning loops.

Ollama · autonomous agent
PropTech

homeconnect.cloud

Resident information portal for multifamily communities — the bridge between property operations and modern tech.

Resident portal · multifamily

Engineering & AI

Local-first AI, autonomous agents, and the Node systems that run them.

Education & credentials

Studying AI in business

  • University of Maryland — Robert H. Smith School of Business · Artificial Intelligence in Business currently underway
  • Certified Apartment Manager (CAM) — National Apartment Association
  • Intro to Programming: HTML & CSS — Udemy
  • Video Shorts Specialist for Claude — Hyper Entrepreneur (2026)
  • GitHub Foundations in progress

Also actively pursuing: Google AI Essentials, Hugging Face Agents, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and Microsoft Copilot — with RHCSA, AWS Solutions Architect, and CKA on the roadmap.

UMD · Smith School — Part One: AI in Business

1 · AI Literacy, Capabilities & Building AI Systems 2 · The Marketing Revolution 3 · AI & Organizations 4 · AI & Supply Chain 5 · Responsible AI 6 · AI in Financial Services

Part Two: Career Empowerment

7 · Being Your Own Startup 8 · Negotiating from a Position of Weakness 9 · Job Search in the Age of AI 10 · Wrap-up & Road Ahead

Toolkit

Engineering skills

Node.js Express JavaScript Local-First AI Ollama AI Agents Automation REST APIs SQLite Cloudflare PropTech System Architecture

Building AI into your product or operation?

For technology, product, and PropTech teams. View the PropTech / developer résumé or reach out to talk architecture.