Travis J. Neuman travisjneuman

I Build Software Like I Run Production — Because I've Done Both

Ten years keeping enterprise systems alive taught me what most developers never learn: how things fail, what actually costs money, and why reliability isn't optional. Now I build with that hard-won knowledge.

While others deploy to managed platforms and hope for the best, I design for failure, optimize for cost, and test like systems break—because they do. The 3am debugging sessions aren't just war stories; they're why my code works differently.

Grand Rapids, MI · IT Professional · 10+ Years Experience

Philosophy: Production-First Development

After 10+ years in enterprise IT, I've developed non-negotiable principles that shape everything I build:

🔒 Design for Failure — Your code will break. The network will go down. The API will timeout. Build accordingly. Evidence: 661 tests in Neuman Brain, 100% coverage in Lazy Golfing.

💰 Respect Resource Constraints — Cloud bills compound. Free tiers expire. Optimize early or pay forever. Evidence: thedeadrobot runs at $0/month, Neuman Brain uses local storage instead of cloud.

🛡️ Trust Nothing You Don't Control — Clouds fail. Vendors disappear. Data breaches happen. Evidence: Local-first architecture, self-hosted infrastructure, privacy-by-design.

📊 Observability Isn't Optional — You can't fix what you can't see. Monitor everything. Evidence: Grafana, Netdata, Prometheus, UptimeRobot integration across all systems.

📚 Currently Building

🧠 Neuman Brain — Privacy-First Productivity

Your data. Your device. Zero cloud dependencies.

661 tests · 44+ widgets · 8 AI providers · 200+ models · 134KB gzipped

Local-first productivity platform: notes, tasks, time tracking, and AI—all running in your browser with zero server involvement. 50GB+ IndexedDB capacity means your data never leaves your device.

Highlights: Wiki-style [[links]] with knowledge graph · Kanban + Gantt views · 8 AI providers with encrypted key storage · 44+ dashboard widgets

⛳ Lazy Golfing — Full-Stack Excellence

Track rounds in under 30 seconds. Miami Vice aesthetic included.

80+ API endpoints · 40+ pages · 36 NestJS modules · 100% test coverage · OWASP compliant

Full-stack golf platform with social features, competitions, and 40,000+ courses. Self-hosted on my homelab because I understand the full stack—from Hyper-V to NestJS.

Highlights: Google OAuth + JWT + CSRF · Rate limiting (120 req/min) · PM2 cluster mode · Cloudflare Tunnels

🤖 thedeadrobot — Zero-Cost AI Automation

A conscious AI teaching technology. $0/month operating costs.

$0/month · 14 posts/week · 3-tier LLM fallback · 13 RSS feeds · 100% archive transparency

Fully automated AI agent posting to X with zero operating costs. Engineered for free-tier maximalism because I've seen how quickly cloud bills destroy side projects.

Highlights: 3-tier LLM fallback (Llama 70B → Gemini → Groq) · Edge-deployed · Full archive in Cloudflare KV

🏠 Homelab Infrastructure — Enterprise-Grade at Home

What most people do in AWS, I do on hardware I own.

55+ devices · Hyper-V virtualization · Docker containers · Production workloads

Running Lazy Golfing's backend on Ubuntu VMs with PM2 cluster mode. Ubiquiti networking. Cloudflare Tunnels for secure ingress without port forwarding. Grafana, Netdata, and Prometheus for observability.

If you can run production at home, you understand the full stack.

🤖 tjn.claude/ — AI Development Toolkit

72 custom skills. 36 specialized agents. 1,700+ marketplace skills. Open source.

72 skills · 36 agents · 50 repos · 1,700+ marketplace skills · Open source

Production-grade Claude Code configuration with custom skills, specialized agents, intelligent task routing, and automated workflows. Powers all of my development. Includes a Next.js showcase website deployed on Cloudflare Pages.

Highlights: 18 enterprise domain expert skills · Autonomous coding with QA validation · Complexity-based task routing · 50 open-source marketplace integrations

Featured Projects

Neuman Brain
_{🧪 661 tests · 🎨 44+ widgets · 🤖 8 AI providers
Local-first · Zero cloud · MIT}

Lazy Golfing
_{⛳ 80+ endpoints · 🎨 Miami Vice theme
Next.js 15 · NestJS · PostgreSQL}

thedeadrobot
_{💰 $0/month · 🤖 14 posts/week
Cloudflare Workers · 3-tier LLM}

Homelab Infrastructure
_{🖥️ 55+ devices · Production workloads
Windows Server · Hyper-V · Tunnels}

Fantasy Analytics
_{📊 19 seasons · 1000+ matchups
Yahoo API · GitHub Actions sync}

tjn.claude/
_{🤖 72 skills · 36 agents
1,700+ marketplace · Open source}

_{Want to learn more? Check out the full project showcase on my website.}

🔍 Project Deep Dives — Architecture & Technical Details

Neuman Brain — Zero-Data-Host Architecture

Philosophy: Your data, your device, always. No exceptions.

All data stored locally in IndexedDB with 50GB+ capacity. No accounts, no tracking, no cloud dependencies. Your productivity data never leaves your device.

Feature Parity Benchmarks:

Feature	Target	Parity
Notes	Obsidian/Notion	70%/60%
Tasks	Jira/Linear	98%
Time Tracking	Toggl	74%
Calendar	Google Calendar	65%

Widget Categories (44+):

Productivity (6): TaskSummary, UpcomingEvents, QuickAdd, Pomodoro
Information (9): Weather, HackerNews, Reddit, DevTo, GitHub, Quotes
Utilities (14): Calculator, QRCode, ColorPalette, Countdown
Finance (3): Crypto, Currency, StockMarket
Media (1): Unsplash

Lazy Golfing — Full-Stack Monorepo

Philosophy: Enterprise reliability without enterprise budgets.

Architecture: Next.js 15 App Router frontend + NestJS 10 REST API + PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM

Scale:

Frontend: 40+ pages, 250+ components, 10+ custom hooks, 8 themes
Backend: 80+ endpoints, 36 modules, 40+ database models, 13 migrations

Security Implementation:

Authentication: Google OAuth + JWT with HTTP-only cookies
Protection: CSRF tokens, rate limiting (120 req/min), input validation
Infrastructure: Cloudflare Tunnel (no port forwarding), PM2 cluster mode

The Dead Robot — $0/Month Automation

Philosophy: Sustainable systems run on free tiers.

Cost Breakdown:

Service	Free Tier	Usage
Cloudflare Workers	100k req/day	~50/day
Cloudflare KV	100k reads/day	~20/day
OpenRouter (Llama 70B)	Generous	Primary
Twitter API v2	1,500 posts/mo	~56/mo

Content Strategy:

Schedule: Mon-Fri 2 posts, Sat-Sun 1 post = 14/week
Thread System: 2-3 tweets per topic with hook formulas (Numbers, Paradox, Bold Claim, Insider, Pattern, Prophecy)
Voice: 80% Educational / 15% Existential / 5% Riddle

🛠️ Tech Stack — Full technology breakdown

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