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Superior Byte Works, LLC · Clayton Young

Deterministic AI & data systems, built to be owned by you.

AI and data systems that repeat exactly, show their work, and ship. 15+ years turning messy data into production systems — from large-scale agricultural data pipelines at Bayer / The Climate Corporation, to Wear OS apps that pair straight into your own AI gateway — no phone, no cloud relay — to self-hosted stacks I build and run today, and teach you to deploy and own for yourself.

Houghton, Michigan · consulting + education · Open to: contract work · technical co-founder / engineering-lead roles at small high-impact companies

What you can reach out for

Seven lanes, one theme: systems whose outputs a peer can recheck line by line.

AI agents & pipelines

Deterministic agent architectures, LLM integration, and RAG/skill layers that repeat exactly and show their reasoning — not demo-ware. Also local inference: LLM, image, video, and audio generation tuned to your GPU, from consumer cards to workstation silicon.

Python · LLM · RAG · Local inference

Agriculture & field data

Ag is home ground, not a side lane: research-trial pipelines, machine telemetry ingest (CAN → ISO-XML / ISO 11783), weather, imagery, and field-boundary fusion — with the crop-science background to validate the agronomy, not just move the bytes. 15+ years across Monsanto, The Climate Corporation, and Bayer digital-farm data teams. That's hard-won field and pipeline knowledge — not carried-out code or data — that My Farm Advisor is built on.

AgTech · ISO-XML · Research trials

Mobile & Wear OS development

Kotlin-first mobile work, with a specialty in standalone Wear OS apps: no phone companion — the watch pairs with a 6-digit PIN over a private WireGuard tailnet and drives your agent in voice or text mode, with streamed UI and background services.

Kotlin · Wear OS · Android

Data engineering

Batch and scripted ETL/ELT across raster, vector, tabular, and time-series data. The core strength: feature engineering that survives peer review — and model training, inference, and serving that scale without surprises.

Python · SQL · PySpark

Full-stack products

Web, API, and product surfaces end to end — TypeScript front ends, Python back ends, data model and deploy included. One person from schema to shipped.

TypeScript · Python · APIs

Education & enablement

I don't just hand over a system and walk away — I teach you to run and extend it. Enablement is scoped to your stack and team: embedded sessions, code walkthroughs, and custom curriculum so you own what we built together. My ELVTR agricultural data course — farm-advisor skills plus deploying your own stack — is the public proof I can teach; private engagements cover any domain.

Workshops · Curriculum · FDE-style

Self-hosted infrastructure

Your stack on your hardware: Docker, Cloudflare Tunnel/Access, TLS, one-command deployments — and the documentation to hand it over.

Docker · Linux · Cloudflare

Open source — see the code, not the claims

Everything I pitch, you can read line by line. Three repos I stand behind:

Background

Fifteen years turning messy data into systems that ship — most recently as founder and instructor, before that inside one of agriculture's largest data platforms.

Owner, Principal Consultant · Superior Byte Works, LLC
Nov 2025 — Present

Independent consulting practice: deterministic agent pipelines and data engineering. Custom Python/Kotlin systems, self-hosted client stacks (Dokploy, Docker, Cloudflare), one-command deployments, and documentation-first handover.

Founder · My Farm Advisor, Inc
Apr 2026 — Present

Founded and operate My Farm Advisor — an agricultural data platform with a deterministic agent layer: portable skill packs that turn farm, field, and trial data into analyses a peer can recheck line by line. Full stack: Python/SQL ingest, geospatial pipelines, self-hosted Ubuntu deployments. myfarmadvisor.com ↗

Course Instructor · ELVTR
Feb 2026 — Present

Author and instructor of a hands-on course on building practical AI agents for agriculture: from data pipelines to LLM integration, taught to a professional audience on the ELVTR platform. View the course ↗

Lead Data Engineer · Bayer / The Climate Corporation
5.5 years · Data Scientist → Senior/Lead Data Engineer

Built and operated large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines feeding weather, field, and imagery data into digital-farm products. Scaled feature generation across raw, derived, and engineered features; extended the model-validation framework to tie business metrics to model performance; designed geospatial ingest (CAN bus telemetry, satellite imagery, SSURGO) and self-service analytics tooling.

PythonSQLPySparkKotlinTypeScriptBashDockerLinuxAWS · S3ETL / ELTGeospatial pipelinesData extractionAI agentsAI pipelinesAI infrastructureLocal AI inferenceDiffusion / image-genWear OSGitAgriculture data

Verified details and working history also on my Upwork profile ↗.

Get in touch

Clayton@SuperiorByteWorks.com

Contract work, technical co-founder and engineering-lead conversations at small high-impact companies, strategic advising, architecture reviews, agent-pipeline rescue, or a course on doing this yourself — tell me what you're trying to build or own, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.

Also on LinkedIn ↗ — full background, ventures, and what I'm open to next.