Founding Engineer • Blitzpanel Alignment • Austin

Benjamin Garrard

Founding engineer candidate for quote → BOM → drawings → build packet automation
Austin, TX benjamingarrard5279@gmail.com bengarrard.com github.com/B2Gdevs dungeon-break-docs.vercel.app linkedin.com/in/benjamin-garrard

Current side project (in production): I am actively shipping DungeonBreak-docs, a TypeScript-first monorepo with a deterministic engine package, Next.js docs/CMS/play surface, and an Astro review hub that bundles tests, coverage, and structured game data for reliable handoff and inspection.

One schema, many runtimes: author once, validate once, consume everywhere.

Professional summary

I am a full-stack founding-engineer profile with a builder/operator mindset: I clarify requirements, design the contracts, ship the tooling, and stay accountable to what operators and customers need in production. I have spent the last several years building data-heavy systems where correctness, reviewability, and speed of iteration all matter at once. For Blitzpanel, that translates directly to owning quote-to-build automation surfaces and making sure BOM logic, drawings, and output packets stay coherent as complexity grows.

Current work (deep detail)

DungeonBreak-docs — systems + docs + runtime delivery

Founder/Engineer • 2024–Present • TypeScript, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, JSON Schema
  • Designed a schema-first architecture where authored content is validated once and then consumed by multiple runtimes, reducing ad-hoc parser behavior and keeping downstream output stable.
  • Built deterministic build pipelines that transform hand-authored source data into normalized packs, generated contract types, and static review artifacts suitable for PR review and non-technical inspection.
  • Implemented Quicktype-based multi-language contract generation (TypeScript, C++, C#) from canonical schema sources to keep web and native-adjacent consumers synchronized.
  • Created operator-facing documentation and review surfaces so dense game/system data can be audited quickly, with clear traceability from source records to runtime payloads.
  • Maintained lint/build/release gates and planning documentation so implementation stays aligned with requirements and regressions are caught early.

Selected past experience

Founding Engineer / Product Systems Builder

Austin, TX • 2021–2024
  • Shipped internal product tooling across React + Next.js frontends and Node/TypeScript services, turning loosely defined process steps into repeatable operational workflows.
  • Owned data modeling and API design for fast-moving product teams, with emphasis on explicit contracts and predictable versioning as features evolved.
  • Built admin and support-facing interfaces (search, triage, data inspection, status views) to reduce bottlenecks and shorten incident/debug loops.
  • Partnered directly with stakeholders on scope and sequencing, balancing near-term shipping pressure with long-term maintainability.

Independent Full-Stack Engineer

Client + product work • 2018–2021
  • Delivered end-to-end web applications including discovery, technical architecture, implementation, deployment, and handoff documentation.
  • Implemented data transformation pipelines and integration adapters that normalized inconsistent third-party inputs into reliable internal structures.
  • Produced UI systems and interaction patterns emphasizing clarity for non-technical operators while preserving power-user workflows.

Blitzpanel-relevant projects

Schema Contract Tooling

Generated strongly typed contracts across TS/C++/C# from one source schema to keep multi-runtime behavior aligned and reduce hand-maintained drift.

Deterministic Build + Review Packets

Built reproducible artifact bundles containing structured outputs, coverage snapshots, and test signals so teams can verify generated results quickly.

Spatial / Hierarchical Data Modeling

Implemented canonical transform chains and nested models (level → room → entity/item) that map cleanly to coordinate-driven downstream consumers.