BenicioPadilla
I get things built, whatever the field. I take an idea or a problem, turn it into working software, and keep it running after launch. Three companies use mine every working day.
- STATUS
- OPEN TO WORK
- FOCUS
- SOFTWARE FOR EVERY FIELD
- BASE
- DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
- EDU
- B.S. CS, UC DAVIS
- 0
- Businesses that run on software I built and maintain
- $0K+
- Billed work tracked through one operations platform
- 0+
- Jobs dispatched and invoiced through one system
- $0K+
- Quoted every week through a pipeline I built for a contractor
Software in production.
Every entry below shipped: field operations, contractor quote pipelines, and an alumni network. Seven are still in production.
Knowledge Retrieval System
Architect & Operator
A graph-based retrieval system over a personal corpus of project, client, and decision notes: 597 documents resolved into a 1,300-node graph across 99 labeled communities, queried daily by six custom LLM agents. Built the ingestion and sync pipelines, the note schema retrieval depends on, and the agent layer. A question about past work returns an answer instead of a file search, which is what keeps three concurrent client projects sustainable.
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Software I build, then maintain.
My clients are not software companies. Once they depend on the software, I keep it running.
Fig. 01 / The United Hydrovac pipeline
Collect, scan, log, send became one automated flow
Fig. 02 / Job sites
Ran on / Runs on now
Hydrovac excavation crews
United Hydrovac
Ran onPaper tickets in the truck, scanned at the office, retyped into invoices.
Runs onTicket photographed on site, OCR fills the form, invoice PDF emailed the same day. 5+ operators, $200K+ billed a month.
Mar 2026Slurry processing & recycling
United Environmental
Ran onLicense plates and loads logged on a clipboard at the gate.
Runs oniPad kiosk: type the plate, the offload tag prefills, equipment records update themselves.
Jul 2026General engineering contractor
Paragon General Engineering
Ran onQuote requests in an inbox, proposals rebuilt by hand for every job.
Runs onWebsite form posts to a separate quoting app, proposal PDF goes out automatically. ~10 quotes a week, $100K+ quoted weekly.
Jun 2026Mobile fleet auto & diesel repair
Dynamic Auto & Diesel
Ran onWord of mouth and a phone number.
Runs onBilingual site that loads fast and books work in English and Spanish.
2026Student software agency
CodeLab Davis
Ran onManual deploys, secrets in chat, nobody sure what was live.
Runs onGitHub Actions to Docker to Fly.io and Vercel, with rollbacks, across every client project. 200+ member platform shipped on it.
May 2026Automating the manual work
I find the process that costs the most hours and replace it with software people use. At United Hydrovac a four-step reporting process became one automated flow.
Full-stack systems that stay running
Next.js, TypeScript, and Supabase / PostgreSQL end to end. Auth and roles, schema and migrations, REST APIs, PDF generation, SMS and email, AI extraction. Then CI/CD, monitoring, and the maintenance after launch.
The work, day by day.
A live record of the last twelve months on GitHub. Every cell is a day, every burn mark is shipped code.
Where I've worked.
Mar 2026 - Present
United Environmental Corp / United Hydrovac
Business Development & Technology Intern
- Replaced a four-step paper workflow (collect, scan, log, send) at a hydrovac and environmental services group with one dispatch-to-invoice system. Owned it from first conversation to production. It is the record for $600K+ in billed work, averaging $200K+ a month, across 140+ jobs and 1,000+ labor hours, used daily by 5+ operators.
- Designed the relational schema and 16 versioned SQL migrations, 25+ REST API routes with 3-role access control, and a KPI dashboard covering revenue trend, crew hours and margin after wages.
Jun 2026 - Present
Paragon General Engineering
Contract Software Developer & Technology Consultant
- Sole technical resource for a general engineering contractor: built and host the marketing site, and built the separate quoting app the estimators work in.
- Designed the lead-to-quote pipeline across those two codebases: a website quote request posts to the app through a token-authenticated, idempotent REST endpoint, the owner builds the proposal, and the PDF is emailed to the requester automatically. Handles ~10 quote requests and ~10 proposals a week, $100K+ quoted weekly.
- Hardened the database after a security review, taking Supabase advisor findings from 17 to 2, and documented every schema decision, bug, and fix for future maintainers.
- Rebuilt the same quoting app for a roofing contractor, with 144 files byte-identical across the two codebases.
Jan 2026 - Present
CodeLab Davis
Software Developer, then Infrastructure Lead
- Built and shipped a full-stack alumni networking platform for 200+ CodeLab alumni using Next.js, React, and Supabase, letting members search and filter connections by field, industry, and career path.
- Developed the complete set of backend API routes on Supabase covering authentication, alumni database reads and writes, and privacy and opt-out logic, then scraped and cleaned LinkedIn profile data to seed it.
- Built the filterable alumni gallery and implemented a proxy restricting access to the UC Davis network, so only verified UC Davis members can reach the platform.
- Promoted to Infrastructure Lead in May 2026. Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions to Docker to Fly.io and Vercel), production deployments, environment secrets, and rollbacks across active client projects, and debug build and runtime failures for dev teams by tracing CI logs to the failing commit.
- Shipped the tracker with a cross-functional team of 6, four developers and two designers, on an 8-week Agile sprint cycle with Figma design handoff.
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Machine Learning Student Network, UC Davis
Data Analyst
- Analyzed economic trends from 2020 to 2024 to assess the impact of natural disasters on regional and national economies using Python (pandas, scikit-learn).
- Cleaned and processed real-world public datasets, applying supervised and unsupervised learning to surface actionable insights.
- Collaborated using Git for version control and reproducible experimentation.
I study CS and build for businesses that are not in tech.
I study Computer Science at UC Davis, with minors in Mathematics, Technology Management, and Spanish. Two of the sites I have built are bilingual because their customers are.
I build for whatever is in front of me: hydrovac crews, a slurry recycling yard, an engineering contractor, a diesel mechanic, a student alumni network. This summer that meant a dispatch-to-invoice platform tracking over $600K in billed work, a quote pipeline that turns a website form into a signed proposal, and CI/CD for a student agency. I build it and I ship it. When it breaks, the call comes to me.
Languages
TypeScript / JavaScript / SQL (PostgreSQL) / Python / C# / C/C++ / Java / HTML/CSS
Frameworks
Next.js / React / Node.js / Express / Tailwind / Zod
Data & Infra
Supabase / PostgreSQL / Migrations / RLS / pg_cron / Edge Functions / MongoDB
DevOps
Git / GitHub / GitHub Actions / Docker / Vercel / Fly.io / Sentry / PostHog
Integrations
Claude API / Twilio / Resend / jsPDF / Recharts / JotForm / QuickBooks (Conductor)
Education
University of California, Davis
B.S. Computer Science
Minors: Mathematics, Technology Management, Spanish
Languages
English & Spanish, fluent in both
Off the clock
What I'm reading.
Nonfiction on habits and decision-making.
The Tipping Point
Malcolm GladwellRevenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm GladwellAtomic Habits
James ClearCan't Hurt Me
David GogginsOutliers
Malcolm GladwellBlink
Malcolm GladwellTalking to Strangers
Malcolm GladwellDavid and Goliath
Malcolm GladwellThe Power of Habit
Charles DuhiggLittle Bets
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