Kenneth Bates · 2026 portfolio
I build resilient automation, full-stack web apps, and the systems that keep them running in production. My day job is endpoint engineering for a Fortune 500 IT services company, where I ship PowerShell tooling that runs against thousands of corporate laptops; on my own time I run a roleplay game server, write TypeScript bots, and engineer Discord clients.
I'm an endpoint engineer working inside a Fortune 500 IT services and value-added reseller, where I write the PowerShell that images, hardens, and remediates corporate laptops. My production work has touched everything from BitLocker key rotation and Intune Autopilot enrollment to vendor security teardown sequences with twelve-step uninstall ordering.
Outside of work I treat building software like a craft. I run a production FiveM roleplay server with thirty-plus custom-built game resources, maintain a Discord theme distributed through my own CDN with a CI/CD pipeline, and ship original Vencord plugins. Most of my side projects are self-hosted on Docker behind Cloudflare Tunnel — the same stack that serves this site.
I'm self-taught. The skill set you see here was assembled by shipping things, breaking things, and reading source code. I'm comfortable owning a feature end-to-end: from registry hive to React component to the Caddyfile that serves it.
Each of the projects below maps to one or more of these. Tooling listed is what I've actually shipped with — if it's here, I've debugged it at 2am.
Production PowerShell against Windows fleets — imaging, MSI lifecycle, BitLocker, vendor SDKs, and security teardown.
Async Node and Python services. Bots, web dashboards, REST + WebSocket, durable jobs.
Modern web UI from design tokens to deployed bundle. Strong on CSS architecture and component design.
FiveM / Qbox roleplay engineering — Lua framework code, NUI surfaces, and database design.
Docker-first self-hosting. Multi-stage images, reverse proxies, automated CDN distribution.
Claude SDK integrations with prompt caching, local Ollama LLMs, and Playwright browser automation.
These are the things I've built that I'd want a hiring manager to look at first. The featured five are deep dives. Below them, five condensed cards. At the end, a short list of also-rans worth a mention.
Production PowerShell for a corporate Windows fleet.
A unified, menu-driven PowerShell suite that handles first-boot imaging, vendor security teardown, BitLocker key rotation, Intune Autopilot enrollment, and VPN connection — the day-to-day work of pushing a corporate laptop into production. Self-elevates, transcripts every action, and treats MSI exit codes as a state machine rather than a binary success/fail.
A production multiplayer server with a custom Qbox stack.
A live FiveM roleplay server running on the Qbox framework with a heavily customized resource set. Player-facing systems span dispatch and MDT with ANPR, evidence management, multi-character framework, progressive economy, and a 500-channel radio with department-restricted bands. The server runs on MariaDB through ox_lib + oxmysql.
Self-hosted media orchestration — Plex, qBittorrent, metadata, renaming.
An async FastAPI backend and a React 19 frontend that orchestrate four Plex drives, a qBittorrent staging area, and an intelligent metadata pipeline. Replaces the FileBot + Sonarr + Radarr stack with a single self-hosted service that ships as a one-file Docker deploy.
A maintained Discord theme with its own CDN and CI pipeline.
A Discord theme built on the NotAnotherAnimeTheme v3 engine, re-skinned for a noir-aesthetic roleplay community. Three switchable color palettes, four runtime layout variants, a self-bootstrapping PowerShell build script, and a GitHub Actions pipeline that minifies, uploads to Backblaze B2, and purges the Cloudflare cache on every push to master.
Job-restricted vehicle modification shop, end-to-end.
A Lua resource for FiveM that gives police characters a free in-world vehicle modification shop, placeable by admins anywhere on the map. The menu builder uses a static dispatch table backed by regex pattern matching for color and wheel submenus, the camera is a mouse-driven orbit rig built on top of FiveM natives, and every change is persisted to MySQL through the player_vehicles table.
Original Vencord plugin replacing Discord's stock Read All button. Acks every documented read-state type (channels, threads, DMs, scheduled events, guild home, onboarding, inbox), chunks bulk-acks 100 at a time with 40 ms yields so 200-server accounts don't lock up, and exposes a verbose-logging mode that prints per-bucket counts when Discord renames an internal store.
Headless Reddit poster that uses Playwright for real-user-style auth and Claude (with prompt caching) to generate distinct post variations on every cycle, side-stepping the duplicate-post detection that gets new accounts shadow-banned. Cron-scheduled per subreddit, with Discord webhook alerts on success, failure, and shadowban detection.
Python Discord moderation bot with a real-time Quart dashboard. Discord OAuth2 + JWT for the operator UI, ring-buffered log streaming over WebSocket so admins can tail bot activity from the browser, and a runtime-reloadable slur filter so policy changes don't require a restart.
Self-hosted browser DnD with a local AI Dungeon Master. Express front-end, Tone.js procedural music engine with five mood states, Ollama running Mistral 7B as the narrative model, sliding-window context for unlimited play sessions. Two-container Docker setup, no API costs, runs offline.
Hand-written loading screen that bridges into FiveM's NUI event API for live load-stage updates, with an animated procedural backdrop, autoplaying audio that gracefully falls back when the browser blocks autoplay, a rotating tip carousel, and a server-clock + slot-counter banner. Pure HTML/CSS/JS — no build step, no framework.
I respond to email within a day. The fastest way to start a conversation is to send a few sentences about the role or project — I'll come back with concrete questions.
Currently open to opportunities · United States