Daniel Ramirez

Founder & Owner-Operator · Strategy Labs AI, LLC

Sacramento, CA · open to remote · /master

daniel@strategylabs.io
(530) 391-8330
strategylabs.io
linkedin/daniel-ramirez
github.com/pterodaniel
Daniel Ramirez

The arc

Builder-operator with two exits and a live portfolio. Co-founded and ran Gold Rush Energy Solutions — a $30M+/yr residential and commercial solar EPC, 40 MW installed, $130M lifetime sales — from 2015 until exiting in 2024, teaching myself to engineer along the way. Co-built ShimmerWorks, a multi-tenant SaaS for the solar industry, with one other engineer over 14 months — acquired; it now operates as BriteBuild. Now founder and owner-operator of Strategy Labs AI, an AI-native consulting firm where I run the technical practice — agent orchestration, on-prem inference, and the builds themselves. On the side: Breakfast Ball, a native iOS + watchOS golf app in TestFlight beta, and a board vice-presidency helping a 2,524-member food co-op buy its building.

Experience

Founder & Owner-Operator · Strategy Labs AI, LLC

2024 — Present

AI-native technology consulting · strategylabs.io

  • Run the firm end to end — business development, client engagements, and delivery of AI-native enterprise software: cloud infrastructure, agent systems, full-stack platforms, integrations.
  • Lead the agent orchestration practice: multi-agent swarms with typed execution contexts; tool-use, file-search, retrieval, code-gen, vision, and computer-use agents handing off work without human babysitting. Builds custom agent harnesses and a library of 17 authored Claude Code skills for workflows off-the-shelf tools don’t cover.
  • Design on-prem AI hardware solutions for clients running RAG and agent swarms — RTX 4090 stacks, Mac Studio M2 Ultra, Mac mini M4 Pro workstations. Built the interactive on-prem hardware-sizing tool and directed the accompanying inference guide.
  • Daily driver across Claude Code (terminal, desktop, IDE plugins, VS Code), Cursor, and Codex. Custom agent harnesses for orchestrating multi-step development workflows.

Co-Founder & Engineer · ShimmerWorks

2025 · acquired

Multi-tenant CRM & SaaS for solar EPCs and contractors · co-built with one other engineer · acquired, now operated as BriteBuild

The build Solar-potential calculator → vertically integrated platform, 14 months

60+ pages, 130+ API routes, 130 DB migrations — CRM, quote design, pricing, financing, contracts, scheduling, real-time collaboration, and contractor operations. 557 of my commits, 174k insertions.

  • Designed the tenant → EPC → contractor data model with polymorphic state/county territory scoping and a 325-permission RBAC across 24 domains and 7 roles.
  • Owned the rebates & incentives engine — a parallel system to adders with three-tier inheritance (program → EPC override → contractor override) and per-utility eligibility scoping.
  • Authored the bitemporal pricing system: quote-version-locked equipment and adder prices via session-pricing snapshot functions, so a quote sent Tuesday still reads Tuesday's prices on Friday without duplicating data.
  • Shipped multi-bucket financing splits, rebates engine with 3-tier inheritance, DocuSign-integrated contract template engine, Slack-like real-time messaging, public REST API v1, sessions analytics, and the Quest Objectives task platform.
  • Centralized OAuth (Google / Microsoft / Apple) on a base-domain hub with signed JWT hand-off to tenant subdomains; patched real auth CVEs and removed axios for supply-chain CVE remediation.
TypeScriptSvelte 5SvelteKit Node.jsPostgreSQL WebAssemblyPythonFastAPI AWS S3 / SESStripe ConnectDocuSign

Creator · Breakfast Ball

2025 — Present · TestFlight beta

Native iOS + watchOS golf scorecard & side-games app · solo build

  • 137k LOC TypeScript/Svelte + 11.7k LOC Swift across four Apple targets: SvelteKit core via Capacitor, SwiftUI watch app (26+ views), WidgetKit glances, and ActivityKit Live Activities with Dynamic Island and 10-second GPS→yardage lock-screen updates.
  • Wager settlement engine: nine simultaneous game formats (Wolf, Skins, Vegas, Match Play…) resolved through a pairwise settlement graph with wash detection — pure deterministic TypeScript, 188 tests.
  • Supabase backend: 52 migrations, 100+ RLS policies, trigger-enforced invite integrity, and 5 Deno edge functions driving APNS push with quotas and cooldowns.
  • Voice caddie (Whisper + TTS with 10+ tool actions) and an in-app agent harness that lets AI agents remotely drive the live app for diagnostics.
Swift / SwiftUIActivityKitWidgetKit WatchConnectivityCoreLocationCapacitor KotlinSupabaseDeno Edge FunctionsAPNS

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer · Gold Rush Energy Solutions

2015 — 2024 · exited

Residential & commercial solar EPC · Sacramento, CA

  • Co-founded and led operations through scale to $30M+ annual revenue ($18M average); recognized as the 49th largest solar installer in California and four-year "Best Solar Company" winner. Exited 2024.
  • Built the sales organization from inception to 70 outside reps and a national dealer network; team drove $130M+ in lifetime sales.
  • Directed 40+ MW of installations: feasibility, permitting, transformer sizing, NEM aggregation, procurement, just-in-time inventory.
  • Engineered the operational software glue across the company — Salesforce ↔ Google Workspace ↔ DocuSign ↔ QuickBooks integrations, SOQL-backed in-house tools, automated document generation in Google Apps Script. The first time I taught myself to ship.

Vice President & Secretary, Board of Directors · Placerville Food Co-op

2024 — Present

2,524 member-owners · Placerville, CA

  • Co-led the $1.39M acquisition of the co-op's longtime building in April 2026 — seven-figure community capital deployment, long-term financing through River Valley Community Bank and the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund.
  • Helped raise $155K+ in net proceeds in months via a member-driven capital campaign — covered the down payment, closing, and a new roof, and added 76 new member-owners.

How I build with AI

Coding agents
Claude Code (terminal, desktop, IDE plugins, VS Code) · Cursor · Codex. Daily driver across all three; comfortable building custom agent harnesses for the workflows the off-the-shelf tools don't cover yet.
Agent orchestration
Multi-agent swarms with typed execution contexts: tool-use, file-search, retrieval, code-gen, vision, and computer-use sub-agents that hand off work and converge on results. Builds custom agent harnesses and 17 authored Claude Code skills.
Inference
RAG pipelines, vector stores, structured-output extraction, vision pipelines. On-prem inference on RTX 4090 stacks and Apple Silicon (M2 Ultra, M4 Pro). Built the firm’s interactive on-prem hardware-sizing tool.
Track record
ShimmerWorks — co-built in 14 months, acquired. Breakfast Ball — native watchOS app with an in-app harness so agents can drive it. AI-accelerated delivery on real infrastructure, not demos.

Selected systems shipped

Breakfast Ball agent harness Solo · 2026

Nine in-repo agent skills operating on the app’s live production surface: an error-triage agent sweeps Sentry and Supabase, writes fixes with regression tests, and closes issues with commit evidence via append-only ledgers. A SOC 2 skill fans seven agents across 61 AICPA criteria.

Bitemporal pricing & financing splits PostgreSQL · 2025

Quote-version-locked equipment and adder prices via session-pricing snapshot functions and snapshot cloning. Multi-bucket financing scenarios route line-items to different lenders, with the database as canonical state and the rack-and-cable diagram as a projection.

SunSpec Modbus implementation Strategy Labs · 2026

Landed cold in grid-edge power electronics and shipped a SunSpec Model 103/124 register map with scale-factor handling, complex-power algebra, and a plant-and-controller simulation — 86 passing tests, roughly 24 hours from a standing start.

Breakfast Ball Live Activity pipeline ActivityKit · 2026

Lock-screen and Dynamic Island round card fed by 10-second background GPS→yardage updates, with a versioned WatchConnectivity contract syncing computed game state iPhone ↔ Watch, and an Android foreground-service equivalent in Kotlin.

Engineering stack

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Swift, Kotlin, SQL (PostgreSQL), Apex, SOQL, GLSL, Bash
Frameworks
SvelteKit, Svelte 5, React, Next.js, Tauri, Electron, Capacitor, FastAPI, Express, Node.js, Vite
Native / mobile
SwiftUI, ActivityKit (Live Activities), WidgetKit, WatchConnectivity, CoreLocation, MapKit, Android services (Kotlin), custom Capacitor plugins, TestFlight / App Store Connect automation
Backend & data
PostgreSQL (audit triggers, polymorphic FKs, bitemporal versioning, RLS, expand-before-contract migrations across products), Redis, Supabase, Deno edge functions, IndexedDB, Salesforce data model
Infra & DevOps
AWS (Lambda, S3, SES, Connect), Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Actions, Xcode Cloud, Docker, Heroku, Sentry, WebSockets, APNS, Stripe Connect, DocuSign
Auth & security
JWT, OAuth 2.0 (Google / Microsoft / Apple, PKCE), multi-tenant subdomain auth, RBAC, row-level security, Argon2id, CSRF
Real-time / perf
Custom WebSocket protocols (MessagePack), R-Tree spatial indexing, haversine / bearing geodesy, fixed-timestep simulation, Server-Sent Events
Solar / domain
Aurora Solar, Energy Toolbase, HelioScope, Enphase, SolarEdge, Green Button, PVWatts, Google Solar API, NEM aggregation, transformer sizing

Recognition & certifications

California State Contractor (CSLB Lic# 99454SP) · Tesla Battery & Roof Certified · Enphase Certified · CALSSA President's Circle
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Chamber of Commerce — Startup of the Year
2018
Chamber of Commerce — Small Business of the Year
2019
"Best Solar Company in Area" — four consecutive years
2019 — 2022