A.01 // PERSPECTIVEAtlanta, GA
OPEN // SENIOR ROLES33.7490° N · 84.3880° W
A.01
Above the Cloudline
The clouds hold the philosophy: plan practically, dream dramatically — close enough to the vision to follow it, grounded enough to build it.
James Breedlove
Agentic software engineer
Previously front-end tech lead at The Home Depot; now co-founder & CTO of SmrtFood — instrumenting AI agents and shipping production React at enterprise scale.
33.7490° N · 84.3880° WAvailable · 2026
Sixyears of production React
2,400+buildings running my code
$5M+saved annually
Now · May '26
BuildingK9LingoFinal App Store review · Closed beta launching
ReadingA Philosophy of Software DesignJohn Ousterhout
ListeningTide Will RiseDexter Story
Last shippedDNA Smart SlotsPredictive delivery allocation
01Origin
An agentic software engineer who thinks in systems.
→ Disciplines
Production React·Agentic engineering·Enterprise scale·TypeScript · Next.js·React Native · Expo·Spring Boot · Node·PostgreSQL · BigQuery·Pub/Sub · Pivotal Cloud·Front-end-focused full-stack·Epic Champion·Tech-lead · Founding engineer·
I build the interfaces the rest of the company quietly relies on — the dashboards that route a delivery fleet, the scanner that double-checks a child's lunchbox, the admin tool that lets ops mark a warehouse closed before the next truck rolls. The visible surface is mine; so is the contract underneath it.
Six years of production React in enterprise contexts — most of it as the front-end lead for The Home Depot's Delivery Network Admin tool, the rest co-founding and shipping a React Native consumer app that started as a question over my kitchen table. I'm most useful where craft and ownership matter: where a team needs someone who can write the spec, draw the component boundary, push the migration through, and still care about the kerning when it lands.
Lately that craft extends to the agents working alongside me — Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity MCP — which I instrument like anything else in production: a hook ships each subagent's transcript to Gemini Flash, which reports back to my private Discord as the agent itself, one persona apiece. The fleet checks in; I read it over coffee.
—James Breedlove· Agentic Software Engineer
Through the years
- '18SmrtFood co-founded · Atlanta
- '20Home Depot · DNA proof-of-concept
- '22Promoted · Front-End Tech Lead
- '25K9Lingo · The Candidature · HypeCrew
- '26Agentic CLI workflows · subagent observability
- '26Open to senior + founding roles
¹ Six years production React² Two roles · one company³ Four side products shipping
02Artist's Statement
Two studies in vision and action.
Rather than stock backdrops, these are visual studies I generated for this space — the same agentic tools I run at work, turned on the craft itself. They hold one balance: vision expansive enough to inspire, execution sharp enough to build.
A.02 // CONSTELLATION06 YRS // PROD REACT
04 PRODUCTS // SHIPPINGVOL // 06 · 2026
A.02
Constellation in the Mirror
Each star is a facet of the vision; each line turns it into a plan. The clouds clear inside the mirror as the dream becomes something solid enough to act on.
→ By the work
2,400+buildingsrunning my code◆$5M+saved annuallyPlanned Closures◆06years productionReact in enterprise◆20+feature modulesDNA rewrite◆100+hrsreclaimed per year◆04products shippingoutside the day job◆
03Track Record
Six years shipping production React.
I.Front-End Tech LeadThe Home Depot · Delivery Network Admin (DNA)'22 – '26II.Software EngineerThe Home Depot · Delivery Options → DNA'20 – '22
I'22 – '26Feb 2022 — Jan 2026Delivery Network Admin (DNA)
Front-End Tech Lead
The Home Depot · Atlanta, GALed front-end development of the Delivery Network Admin tool — an enterprise React application used by 2,400+ Home Depot distribution centers to manage warehouse capacity, shipping routes, and delivery scheduling. Acted as Epic Champion: technical specs, database design, cross-team coordination, sprint planning.
Planned Closures
End-to-end ownership: React UI, Spring Boot APIs, Pub/Sub contracts, PostgreSQL schema.
$5M+saved annually
Adopted by 2,400+ buildings in production, eliminating shipping delays caused by manual capacity calls.
DNA Rewrite
Migrated an Angular PoC to React / TypeScript / Next.js / Node.js across 20+ feature modules.
20+feature modules
Performance and maintainability lifted across the board. Defined the security framework (PingFederation SSO) on the rewrite.
Zip Code Profiles
PostgreSQL ↔ BigQuery sync giving DNA users self-serve market lookups.
100+ hrsreclaimed per year
Eliminated repetitive engineering inquiries by surfacing the data behind the questions users were already asking.
Smart Slots
Dynamic delivery-slot allocation with predictive demand modeling.
Architected the allocator and integrated the prediction layer; visibly improved scheduling efficiency and on-time rates.
II'20 – '22Feb 2020 — Feb 2022Delivery Options → DNA
Software Engineer
The Home Depot · Atlanta, GABuilt the initial DNA tool as a Proof of Concept (Angular + TypeScript + Ant Design). The PoC secured full project funding and the team expansion that became the next chapter.
PoC → Funded
Took the original Angular proof of concept from sketch to a working tool stakeholders approved.
The PoC's reception is what built the team I'd later lead.
Backend & APIs
Domain services in Java Spring Boot + PostgreSQL; full JUnit coverage.
Set the backend conventions other DNA engineers built against.
Testing Standards
Established unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage with Jasmine and Cypress.
Cross-functional work with Product, Infrastructure, and Architecture teams.
→ In this issue
Build Log·The Candidature · career intelligence·K9Lingo·SmrtFood·HypeCrew·Toolkit appendix·Signal — back cover·
04Personal Builds
Four plates — all mine, all shipping.
Four products I'm actively building outside the day job. Each set in its own brand voice — colors, type, and tone run independent of the surrounding magazine.
ContentsFour plates · this issue
I.The CandidatureCareer intelligence that lives on your machine — not someone else's funnel.B.01II.K9LingoTeach your dog in any language — and meet them halfway.B.02III.SmrtFoodA scanner that double-checks a child's lunchbox before someone else has to.B.03IV.HypeCrewThe AI co-pilot — "Crewmates" — that makes a one-person stream feel like a room.B.04Plate IB.01Career Intelligence
candidature—Private beta · by invitation
Career intelligence that lives on your machine — not someone else's funnel.
A local-first, autonomous job-application companion for senior operators. Reads the role, the rumor, and your work history; drafts the application, queues the follow-ups, and keeps every byte on-device. The opposite of mass-apply.
- Local LLMs
- Tauri
- TypeScript
- SQLite
- Vector search
K9Lingo
Teach your dog in any language — and meet them halfway.
A foreign-language dog-training companion. Pick a target language, learn the cue, practice the pronunciation, and run training drills your dog can actually follow. Built for owners who want their working breeds to listen, regardless of which side of the border they grew up on.
- Role
- Founder · Mobile
- Period
- 2025 – Present
- Status
- Closed beta · TestFlight + Play
- React Native
- Expo
- TTS
- Audio DSP
- Firebase
●Plate II
k9lingoclosed beta · 2026
Plate IIIB.03Food safety
A scanner that double-checks a child's lunchbox before someone else has to.
A scanner that double-checks a child's lunchbox before someone else has to.
A React Native barcode scanner for parents with children in daycare or school food programs. Scan a food item — the app pulls nutrition info from the FDA database, cross-references the ingredients against every child's dietary profile, and flags allergens or restrictions before the food gets handed off.
Plate IVB.04Stream Co-pilot
hypecrew—Landing live · dashboard in build
The AI co-pilot — "Crewmates" — that makes a one-person stream feel like a room.
A streaming co-pilot for new creators. Crewmates ride along with the broadcast, reading chat, riffing on the moment, and filling the dead air a brand-new streamer can't yet fill on their own. Landing page is live; the dashboard scaffolding is in.
- Next.js
- WebSockets
- Realtime LLMs
- Twitch API
- Edge
¶ End of plates · continued overleaf
05Toolkit · Appendix
The stack under the hood.
Six disciplines the work has actually run on. Production-grade, not buzzword-grade.
T.018 stars
Agentic Engineering
- Claude Code
- Codex CLI
- Antigravity MCP
- Subagent observability hooks
- Gemini Flash summarization
- Discord persona pipelines
- Prompt + context engineering
- MCP servers
T.0213 stars
Front-End & UI
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Redux
- React Native
- Expo
- Tailwind
- Ant Design (custom fork)
- Framer Motion
- Responsive design
- Component architecture
- Code splitting
- Front-end performance
T.0310 stars
Back-End & APIs
- Node.js
- Java
- Spring Boot
- REST
- Pub/Sub
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Firebase
- Firestore
- BigQuery
T.0411 stars
Cloud & DevOps
- Google Cloud Platform
- GKE
- AWS
- AWS Lambda
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Jenkins
- Git
- Gradle
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Looker
T.058 stars
Languages
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Java
- Python
- C#
- HTML
- CSS
- SCSS
T.067 stars
Practice
- Epic Championship
- Cross-team coordination
- Architecture review
- Tech spec authorship
- Sprint planning
- Hiring & interviewing
- Mentorship
→ Currently
Open · Agentic engineering·Tech-lead·Founding engineer·Atlanta, GA·Remote-first·33.7490° N · 84.3880° W·2026 — accepting inquiries·
06Signal
Let's build something good.
Open to senior front-end and tech-lead roles where craft and ownership matter. Available in Atlanta or remote-first, starting in 2026. Reply within 24h.