The Builder Behind rektbelly

I'm not a developer by trade. I went to school for computer networking and spent years chasing a Cisco CCIE. My day job is in corporate leadership at a Fortune 500, about as far from writing Python bots as you can get.

But I've always been on the edge of whatever the next tech wave is. And when AI started going exponential, I couldn't stay away.

I started playing with Claude Code. Not casually. Hours and hours and hours. Building things, breaking things, rebuilding them. Learning by doing, which is the old 4-H motto and still the best way to learn anything.

The fascination with markets has been there my whole professional life. How people extract value from them. My own attempts to “extract” have been terrible. I'm too emotional. Doesn't matter how many books I read or how hard I try, the emotions kick in and I do the wrong thing in hindsight. Every time.

So I decided to take myself out of the equation and build the tools instead.

The marriage of tech and finance is where I live now. These projects exist for two reasons:

One, to gain a deep understanding of the tech. You learn by building, not by reading docs.

Two, to trade without emotion. The bots don't panic sell. They don't FOMO buy. They don't move their stops because “this time feels different.”

Every project on this site is something I built myself with AI as a force multiplier. No team. No contractors. Just stubbornness and an API key.

I've spent 20+ years in corporate America leading teams and scaling operations at the Fortune 500 level. Now I want to take those skills to the private space and help accelerate growth.

I'm looking for opportunities where AI, fintech, or quantitative systems are core to the mission. Not at a company that's “exploring AI.” At one that's building with it.

I'm also interested in collaborating with other builders who are pushing the edges of what one person can ship with AI tools.

Not interested in “let's chat about synergies.” Interested in “let's build something that works.”