Lorne P.
Benore
Team Lead. Full-Stack Engineer. Building clean systems and the teams that maintain them.
01 / about
The person
behind the terminal
I'm a full-stack engineer who has been writing code before Stack Overflow existed, and I still get unreasonably excited when a complex system clicks into place.
I've spent my career working across a wide range of programming languages, databases, frameworks, and infrastructure. These days I pair that foundation with AI-assisted development using Claude Code, which lets me move faster, architect more confidently, and tackle unfamiliar problem spaces without losing momentum.
When not shipping code, I run a self-hosted home lab that serves as my personal cloud, development sandbox, and infrastructure playground—because the best way to learn a system is to own one.
Infrastructure thinker
AI-first developer
Container enthusiast
Domain Expert
02 / skills
Technical
expertise
Two decades of stacking skills, not just collecting them.
SQL
PHP
HTML / CSS
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
C#
Laravel
SvelteKit
RESTful API
Bootstrap
React
Lumen
Tailwind CSS
MySQL
MS SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Linux (Debian)
Linux (CentOS)
Apache
Git / GitLab
Docker
Windows Server
Bash
AWS VPC
AWS EC2
AWS RDS
Backblaze B2
Secrets Manager
IAM
S3
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Network+
CompTIA Project+
CompTIA A+
dots indicate relative proficiency — not a formal rating
03 / work history
Experience &
leadership
From Future Combat Systems to international enterprise payroll.
- Promoted to Team Lead within one year, taking ownership of a seven-person team focused on international payroll initiatives.
1 framework. Multiple countries. Built from scratch.
When Paycom expanded internationally, led the architecture and development of the foundational payroll setup that made it possible — delivering Canadian payroll setup functionality and establishing it for other countries to build on.
- Delivered foundational earnings and deductions functionality for Canadian payroll and established the core framework for international platform scalability.
- Architected and developed the international Tax Update Center, transforming it into a multi-country tax rule management system.
- Internationalized the minimum wage API, enabling automated updates across international jurisdictions.
- Guided backend development for loading international tax data into the tax database, ensuring data integrity and country-specific compliance.
- Developed internationalization of earnings and deductions forms, including SQL schema design for supporting data structures.
- Built import, sync, and batch sync functionality for a prior year company maintenance project using PHP and MySQL.
- Mentored junior developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and career development support.
Earlier career
Education
Western Governors University of Texas
B.S., Software Development
Austin, TX
04 / projects
What I'm
building now
Personal projects that solve real problems and sharpen real skills.
Project Orion
Idle Space Mining Game
A Svelte-based idle/incremental game featuring procedurally generated asteroids with seeded determinism. Built with a command pattern architecture, event-driven UI via mitt, and a dependency injection system — using Claude Code as the primary development agent throughout.
Engine
SvelteKit
Architecture
Command pattern + DI
Events
mitt event bus
Generation
Seeded procedural (Mulberry32)
Home Lab
Self-hosted infrastructure
A production-grade private cloud running on two Debian Linux nodes. Hosts a full self-hosted service stack with encrypted offsite backups, container orchestration, and a GitLab-managed infrastructure-as-code workflow
Hosts
2× Debian Linux nodes
Runtime
Docker (both nodes)
Backup
Kopia → Backblaze B2
Next
PostgreSQL + dev stack
AWS Infrastructure
Cloud architecture
A secure, layered AWS environment built from scratch around network isolation and least-privilege access — custom VPC, private RDS, bastion host, NAT Gateway, and centralized secret management via Secrets Manager.
Network
VPC — public & private subnets
Database
RDS (private subnet)
Access
EC2 Bastion + NAT Gateway
Security
Secrets Manager + IAM roles
Algorithmic Trading System
Automated trading & analysis
A Python-based trading system with a PostgreSQL backend, technical analysis signal engine, and Alpaca paper trading integration. Built on homelab infrastructure with Grafana dashboards for signal visualization and Discord webhooks for alerts.
Language
Python
Database
PostgreSQL
Signals
MA200 + RSI + Volume
Integration
Alpaca Paper Trading
05 / ai-powered development
Building with
AI as a partner
Claude Code isn't a shortcut — it's a multiplier. Here's how I integrate it into real development work.
Architect first
I design the system structure and define clear interfaces before writing a line of code. Claude Code helps stress-test the design with questions I might not think to ask.
AI-assisted implementation
Claude Code is my development partner — it handles boilerplate, surfaces edge cases, suggests better patterns, and keeps me in a state of flow rather than context-switching to documentation
Review & understand
Every AI-generated piece of code gets reviewed and understood before it ships. I use AI to move fast, not to skip thinking. The goal is to own what I build.
Iterate with feedback
The feedback loop is tight. Real usage drives the next session, which drives the next improvement. When iteration is cheap enough to actually do, you do it more
Current stack
Claude Code
Primary coding agent
SvelteKit
Frontend framework
Docker
Container runtime
AWS
Cloud infrastructure
TypeScript
Type-safe development
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling
"This portfolio site was built in a single session with Claude Code — SvelteKit scaffolding, Tailwind theming, component design, and all. The AI wrote the boilerplate; I directed the architecture and design decisions."
06 / contact
Let's build
something together
Whether it's a project collaboration, an opportunity, or just a conversation about containers and AI — I'm always up for it.