J. Campbell

Early to the internet. Early to mobile.
Here for what’s next.
With receipts.

Building agentic systems at Fork Development Corp, in Paducah, KY, using the SmolNerd Farm AI Platform.

What I’m shipping

• Fork Development Corp / SmolNerd Farm — the studio and the orchestration platform behind it
• VibeFest — traveling hands-on AI workshop week (Paducah, Jun 15–20)
• DeRisk — inter-agent messaging infrastructure (MCP + IRC + HTTP/WS)
• Platr Walk — tap any parcel in McCracken County to see who owns it, on iPhone, no account (first shipped App)
• Platr — full property-intelligence suite: flood risk, entity resolution, assessment appeals, on-device LLM (your county next)
• The Jackson Purchase triple junction — recent two-hour demo of the dossier service

Work with me

Most engagements come through people I already know. If you found me cold and want to start something, tell me what you’re building — the intake is a short form, and I read every one.

• Hire me — engagement intake
• Learn the toolchain at VibeFest
• LinkedIn

Receipts.

• Ran IRC in 1991, BGP in 1996 — networked distributed systems before “the internet” was a job title
• Co-founded Apex Internet Services in 1995 — grew from zero to over $5M ARR
• Built a chart-topping App — #1 in Sports, 2009
• Joined Big Nerd Ranch in 2011 — trained iOS engineers at Facebook, LinkedIn, and the Library of Congress
• Managed the IBM software team that built Citi’s Watch App. On time, and on Apple’s stage. (March, 2015)
• Senior iOS Engineer with years building for American Express, Capital One, and Walmart — millions of active users each