Morristown, Tennessee nathanielfrankford@gmail.com

Morristown, Tennessee

I build things people actually use.

I have been writing software for as long as I can remember and have professional tools in development for over a decade now. I spent a long time learning how to code before ever stepping into the ring with AI and now I utilize LLMs at all levels (cloud based or otherwise) to solve problems or create products. Check out the projects below.

10+ years in software

PHP, JavaScript and SQL for local business and healthcare

Ran for county commission

Won the 2026 Democratic primary, District 12

AI systems practice

Agent architecture with a verification-first discipline

Who I am

About Bryant

I am a software developer in Morristown, Tennessee. Morristown Hamblen West, class of 2007, then Walters State for computer science. I have spent most of my working life writing the software that does not get written about: the report that tells a clinic what it needs to know, the production system that keeps a print shop's day from falling apart.

Two years of that was at Cherokee Health Systems, writing SQL against medical and behavioral health data in a HIPAA environment. Three more were at B.K. Graphics, where I built the internal tool the shop still runs its workflow on, and ran the press myself.

In 2025 I was elected Chair of the Hamblen County Democratic Party. I ran the committee's budget and reporting, spoke for it publicly, and recruited a slate of three candidates in a county where the party often fields none. One of them won. In 2026 I was the Democratic nominee for County Commission in District 12. I won the primary and lost the general, and I have since stepped down as chair.

What I took from that year was not a title. It was a habit of reading a county budget line by line and building the calculator that lets a neighbor check my arithmetic. That instinct, publish the work so somebody can prove you wrong, is the same one I bring to software.

These days most of what I ship is built in collaboration with AI, and I am direct about which parts are which. That is what the projects section below is organized around.

Resume

Software, data, and AI systems

Ten years of conventional development underneath, an AI orchestration practice on top. Both are real and they do different jobs.

Ten years before AI

Hands on the keyboard

Production web applications, internal business systems, and SQL reporting. Written by me, line by line, and defensible in any interview.

PHPJavaScriptSQL Server MySQLVisual BasicjQuery AJAXHTML / CSSGit

The current practice

Directing AI to build

Designing systems, deciding how they work, and running the agents that write them. I maintain a library of forty-plus operating skills that govern how that work is checked before it ships.

Agent architecturePrompt & system design MCP connectorsLocal models (Ollama) Verification gatesMulti-agent protocol

What actually transfers

The valuable part is not the prompting, it is the discipline. Every system I build carries the same rules: verify a value against its source rather than a convenient copy, make a check fail on purpose before you trust it to pass, and never ship a claim its author cannot defend. AI will confidently hand you work you do not understand. The job is building the gates that catch it.

Experience

Independent Developer & AI Systems Architect

Self-directed

November 2024 — Present

  • Design and direct the build of multi-codebase systems, including a federated messaging and credit network, an end-to-end encrypted direct messaging layer, and a local-model desktop client.
  • Maintain a library of forty-plus operating skills that encode build discipline: provenance checks, consent gates, verification-before-trust, and self-proving deliverables.
  • Published Shield Hero, a 2D roguelite written in JavaScript and packaged with Electron, for sale on Steam.
  • Built and maintain this site and the library of free browser tools hosted on it, and published original analyses of county budget, property tax and healthcare cost data as calculators the public can run on their own numbers.

Software Developer & Production Specialist

B.K. Graphics

January 2022 — November 2024

  • Designed and built The Packet Pal from scratch, the internal production system in PHP, MySQL and JavaScript that ran the shop's daily workflow, job packets, scheduling and fulfillment. Mine end to end, and still the software the floor runs on.
  • Managed end-to-end screen printing operations: setup, registration, and final quality assurance on custom apparel runs.
  • Partnered with the art department to resolve digital file problems and guarantee print-ready output.

Data Analyst

Cherokee Health Systems

February 2015 — February 2017

  • Wrote and maintained SQL reports against medical and behavioral health data supporting clinical and operational decisions.
  • Developed internal web applications using Visual Basic, jQuery, HTML, CSS and AJAX.
  • Handled protected health information in a HIPAA-covered environment.

Digital Artist & Software Contributor

B.K. Graphics

June 2014 — January 2015

  • Produced production artwork for screen printing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
  • Contributed to in-house software built with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Web Developer

Business Information Systems

June 2013 — June 2014

  • Developed and maintained government websites and internal software in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS.

Public service

Democratic Nominee, County Commission District 12

Hamblen County, Tennessee

2026

  • Won the Democratic primary for District 12. Lost the general election.
  • Researched and published original analyses of county budget, property tax and healthcare cost data, including a progressive property tax model built against the county's actual rate and released as a calculator the public could run on their own numbers.
  • Ran a countywide campaign end to end: messaging, volunteers, public events and compliance.

Chair

Hamblen County Democratic Party

April 2025 — 2026

  • Led all committee operations, meetings and public outreach, and served as primary spokesperson to local media.
  • Owned the committee budget, financial reporting and fundraising.
  • Recruited and fielded a slate of three county commission candidates in a county where the party had often fielded none. One won her seat.

Education

Computer Science coursework, Walters State Community College, 2009 — 2011

Computer Electronics, A+ Certification, Tennessee Technology Center of Morristown, 2008 — 2009

High School Diploma, Morristown Hamblen High School West, Class of 2007

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References available on request.

The workshop

Projects

What I have designed and directed. Please read the note below before you read the list.

Disclosure: every project on this page was generated by AI. I decided what each one is, how it works and what it must never do, and I directed the build and reviewed the result. An agent wrote the code.

I am saying this plainly because you should know what you are looking at. The decade of software I wrote by hand ran print shops and clinics instead of living on the internet, so it is not here to click; it is in the resume above.

Shield Hero

JS + Electron

A 2D top-down roguelite arena where defense is offense: block, parry and ricochet enemy fire, then charge your shield into an energy burst. Four modes, local co-op, 31 achievements. Built with AI assistance and published to Steam.

Built with AI Get it on Steam

ÆTHERNET

Protocol

A federated messaging and credit network: a relay, a witness node, a connector, and a native Android wallet. Account checkpoints are Merkle-rooted and validated by independent witness signatures, so no single machine can assert the ledger alone.

Built with AI

Project Aegis

Go

A decentralized peer-to-peer encrypted messaging platform. Nodes find each other over a gossip protocol and form a serverless mesh; identity is a keypair behind your master password. Open source.

Built with AI On GitHub

Ollama Studio

JavaScript

A single-file desktop client for running local language models: streaming replies, reasoning display, and a notebook the model reads and writes on its own between sessions.

Built with AI

High Score

PHP + MySQL

A customer loyalty and rewards platform I designed for Replay Games to track repeat customers and drive retention. Private to the business that runs it, so there is nothing public to click.

Built with AI

D4: Parliamentary Edition

JavaScript

A multiplayer companion for game nights around Democracy 4. Every minister draws a secret win condition, and policy gets made the hard way, with motions, debate and recorded votes.

Built with AI Convene

Progressive Property Tax

My model

My answer to the Hamblen County tax hike: cut the effective rate on primary residences and recover the revenue along an S-curve on large portfolios. The analysis and the rate curve are my own research; the calculator around them was AI-built.

Built with AI Run your numbers

Quantum Chess

JavaScript

Chess where a piece exists on two squares at once. Split into superposition, force reality to collapse on capture, and spend tachyon charges to rewrite the last five moves.

Built with AI Play it

QUADRATA

JavaScript

A standards-compliant QR generator implementing ISO/IEC 18004, versions 1 through 40. Runs entirely in your browser. No servers, no libraries, no tracking.

Built with AI Make a code

Spatial Calc

JavaScript

A scientific calculator that builds your math in three dimensions. Graph a function and watch the answer rise as a live landscape of blocks.

Built with AI Open it

The Healthy Economy

JavaScript

An interactive flowchart of the economic cycle. Click any stage to see how dollars moving through a community build shared prosperity, and what happens when they stop.

Built with AI Explore it

Hamblen County

Showing up

Parades, cleanups, protests, and a lot of long talks over a soda. Whatever else changes, this is the place.

Swipe to browse. Tap any photo to enlarge.

Get in touch

Say hello

Open to software and AI work, remote. Also happy to talk about county budgets, encrypted messaging, or why a photon has no clock.