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Lou Carron

Software engineer and Computer Science student focused on building reliable backend systems, modular platforms, and production-ready software.

I specialize in designing software with clear boundaries, deterministic behavior, strong testing, and operational visibility. My work spans backend development, workflow orchestration, event processing, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and business-focused web applications.


πŸš€ Current Focus

I’m building a layered software ecosystem where each system has a focused responsibility:

  • A.I.L. β€” AI Intelligence Layer
    A modular intelligence platform for prompt management, provider selection, memory retrieval, execution reliability, and explainable decision visibility.

  • SignalForge
    A detection and alerting platform that evaluates signals, applies rules, manages alert lifecycles, exposes metrics, and triggers downstream automation.

  • ChronoFlow
    A workflow orchestration engine for validating, deduplicating, routing, executing, and tracking structured workflows.

  • BeaconFlow
    An event-ingestion foundation designed around clean boundaries, reliable processing, and scalable system integration.

  • ControlPlane
    An operator-facing dashboard that combines execution, alert, trace, analytics, and decision visibility across the platform.

  • ClientForge
    A multi-tenant foundation for identity, users, tenants, authentication, and system boundaries.

Alongside the platform ecosystem, I am also building production-focused applications that solve real business problems.


πŸš› Featured Product

A mobile-first load, expense, and profitability platform for owner-operators and lease-purchase truck drivers.

Axleledger helps drivers track the numbers that determine whether their trucking business is actually profitable.

Current capabilities include:

  • Secure Supabase authentication
  • Load creation, tracking, and management
  • Operating-expense tracking
  • Revenue and profit visibility
  • Reporting-period controls
  • Recent business activity
  • Responsive mobile and desktop workflows
  • Production deployment through Vercel

Built with: Next.js, TypeScript, React, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS, and Vercel


🧠 Engineering Principles

  • Artificial intelligence is a dependency, never the core
  • Domain logic should not leak across system boundaries
  • Detection and orchestration are separate responsibilities
  • Build systems, not disconnected scripts
  • Prefer deterministic behavior over hidden behavior
  • Make important decisions observable and explainable
  • Test behavior before expanding complexity
  • Evolution is not deviation; it is convergence

πŸ— What I Build

My primary areas of focus include:

  • Backend services and REST APIs
  • Modular monoliths
  • Clean Architecture
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Event-driven systems
  • Artificial intelligence infrastructure
  • Authentication and multi-tenant systems
  • Decision and execution visibility
  • Relational database applications
  • Automated and integration testing
  • Production-focused business software

πŸ›  Technology Stack

Languages

  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Python
  • C++

Backend and Web

  • .NET 10
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Minimal APIs
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS

Data and Infrastructure

  • PostgreSQL
  • Entity Framework Core
  • Supabase
  • SQLite
  • Docker
  • Vercel

Architecture and Testing

  • Clean Architecture
  • Modular Monoliths
  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven design
  • xUnit
  • Integration testing
  • Contract testing
  • GitHub Actions

Systems and Tools

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Linux
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Swagger / OpenAPI
  • UTM virtualization
  • Nginx

πŸ“Œ Highlight Project

A platform capability that controls how artificial intelligence is used inside larger software systems.

Key capabilities include:

  • Prompt registry with versioning and lifecycle management
  • Provider registration, selection, and fallback
  • Replaceable agent execution layer
  • Memory storage, retrieval, filtering, and ranking
  • Reliability and execution telemetry
  • Decision explanations and trace visibility
  • Repository-backed persistence
  • Strict separation between intelligence and core business logic

A.I.L. is designed as infrastructureβ€”not as a chatbot wrapper.


πŸ”§ Additional Projects

SignalForge

A rules-based detection platform supporting:

  • Signal evaluation
  • Rule lifecycle management
  • Alert creation and enrichment
  • Acknowledgement, resolution, and reopening
  • Alert metrics
  • Audit history
  • Automation triggers
  • Decision visibility

ChronoFlow

A workflow orchestration platform supporting:

  • Control-trigger intake
  • Validation and deduplication
  • Workflow routing
  • Execution-instance tracking
  • Execution history
  • Correlation and traceability

Closeoutflow

A modular closeout workflow platform built with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, SQLite, Swagger, xUnit, and GitHub Actions.

Clip & Cast

A production-oriented media workflow product covering assets, clips, advertising, scheduling, publishing intent, analytics visibility, and YouTube publishing workflows.


πŸ–₯ Homelab and Technical Development

I use Linux and Windows virtual machines to build hands-on experience with:

  • Linux command-line administration
  • Users, permissions, files, and services
  • Nginx configuration
  • Networking and troubleshooting
  • SSH and secure file transfer
  • Virtualization
  • Break/fix exercises
  • Cybersecurity fundamentals
  • Cloud and systems concepts

πŸŽ“ Background

I am pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University.

Before moving deeper into software engineering, I built extensive experience in trucking and logistics. That background strengthened my ability to work independently, manage time-sensitive operations, troubleshoot under pressure, document accurately, and understand the real cost of unreliable systems.

I bring that same operational mindset into software development:

Understand the workflow, protect the boundaries, test the behavior, and build systems people can trust.


πŸ“« Contact


⚑ Philosophy

Evolution isn’t deviation. It’s convergence.

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  1. axleledger axleledger Public

    A mobile-first load, expense, and profitability dashboard for owner-operators and lease-purchase truck drivers.

    TypeScript

  2. AIL AIL Public

    A.I.L. (AI Intelligence Layer) is a modular platform for managing, validating, and executing AI workflows with strict architectural boundaries. It provides prompt versioning, provider abstraction, …

    C#

  3. BeaconFlow BeaconFlow Public

    Event ingestion API built with .NET 8 using Clean Architecture principles.

    C# 1

  4. ChronoFlow ChronoFlow Public

    Modular event-driven backend platform built with .NET, event streams, and clean architecture.

    C# 1

  5. Closeoutflow Closeoutflow Public

    A modular closeout workflow platform for tracking jobs, managing closeout requirements, and validating project completion through clean domain boundaries and test-driven foundations.

    C#

  6. loucarron.dev loucarron.dev Public

    Architecture-driven developer portfolio built with Next.js featuring event systems, workflow orchestration, and SaaS platform design projects.

    TypeScript