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Robert Floyd Dugger

Systems Architect & IT Lead

West Palm Beach, Florida | [email protected] | GitHub | LinkedIn

Professional Summary

Self-taught systems architect and automation engineer — no formal degree, a set of Google IT/data/AI certifications, and a real, verified body of shipped production work spanning game engines, dozens of MCP (Model Context Protocol) automation servers, trading-systems research, and published Chrome extensions. Currently employed full-time in contact center and marketing operations support, where I’ve automated a substantial share of the manual data workflows I used to do by hand. Outside that day job, I direct AI coding agents against real codebases using a spec-driven methodology — writing directives, enforcing certified test floors, and verifying actual rendered output rather than trusting agent summaries.

Professional Experience

Contact Center & Marketing Operations Support

Current role, full-time | South Florida | 2024 – Present

What this actually involves: Building and maintaining the automation layer underneath a marketing-operations team’s dialer work — lead enrichment, data-accuracy checks, and recurring reporting that used to be manual, spreadsheet-driven work.

Real, generalizable outcomes:

  • Automated lead enrichment and data-accuracy pipelines that replaced manual spreadsheet workflows
  • Automated recurring business-logic and reporting calculations that previously required daily manual work
  • Built hands-on familiarity with dialer platforms (Convoso, Telesero) — list management, compliance workflows, agent-facing tooling

The specific internal systems and employer data stay internal by design. The generalized, public version of this kind of work — a real-time dashboard automation layer, a list-performance scoring system — is described on Infrastructure I’ve Built.

Freelance Social Media & Content (early)

Small local-business client | 2023–2024

Managed social media presence and visual content for a small local service business, including early hands-on use of generative AI for content and copy production — one of my first practical applications of AI tooling to real client work.

Technical Projects & Portfolio

Infrastructure I’ve Built

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Roughly a dozen real MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, several hundred individual tools, most enforcing their own certified test floors rather than assumed-correct behavior. Includes coding-agent orchestration (DuggerBot), YouTube content scheduling (RFD_YT_Engine), blog/Dev.to publishing automation (rfd-blog-engine), and the actual Hugo tooling this site is built and deployed through.

Stack: Python, MCP, SQLite, FastAPI

PhantomArbiter | Solana Real-Time Arbitrage Research

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Real-time system for detecting price discrepancies across Solana DEXes (Raydium, Jupiter, Orca, Meteora), with millisecond-scale detection, multi-strategy anomaly checks, and MEV-aware execution ordering.

Stack: Python, Rust (PyO3), FastAPI, WebSocket, Solana SDK

rpgCore | Multi-Genre Game Engine

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Flexible ECS-based engine supporting multiple game genres, with a Python core, Godot (C#) frontend, and NEAT AI integration for adaptive NPC behavior. The genetics and dispatch systems this engine established underpin most of my later game work.

Stack: Python, C# (Godot), SQLite, NEAT, pytest

TurboShells | Full-Stack Real-Time Web Game

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Real-time turtle racing simulation where every physical trait renders from a genome string via Mendelian inheritance rules. Hexagonal architecture with React/Vite frontend, FastAPI backend, and WebSocket-synced physics.

Stack: React, TypeScript, Vite, FastAPI, SQLModel, PixiJS, WebSocket

Games, Engines, and Systems

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A live, shared-Lua-engine arcade (RFDGameStudio) plus VoidRift, a standalone Rust/Bevy game shipped to Android and browser from zero prior Rust experience — and an honestly-tiered back catalog of everything else built along the way, sorted by how finished each piece actually is rather than flattened into one list.

Chrome Extensions

Five published, real tools — each with its own project page describing the actual mechanism, not marketing copy:

Stack: JavaScript, Chrome APIs, Content Scripts, Background Workers

Skills & Expertise

Programming Languages

  • Python — async patterns, type hints, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy
  • JavaScript/TypeScript — React, Vite, Chrome APIs
  • Rust — Bevy, PyO3 bindings for Python integration
  • Lua — game-engine scripting contract (RFDGameStudio)
  • C# — Godot game engine
  • SQL — schema design, complex queries, optimization

Platforms & Infrastructure

  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) — building and running real tool servers that let an AI agent act on real systems
  • Blockchain — Solana, DEX integrations, RPC providers
  • Cloud & deployment — GCP, Docker, Linux systems administration
  • Databases — SQLite, PostgreSQL, schema design

Architecture & Patterns

  • Entity-Component-System (ECS) game architecture
  • Hexagonal architecture (ports & adapters)
  • Real-time systems (WebSocket, async patterns)
  • Spec-driven development — directives, ADRs, and certified test floors as the unit of “done,” not agent self-reports

Domain Expertise

  • Contact center automation — dialer platforms, list management, compliance workflows
  • Game development — mechanics design, shared-engine architecture, procedural generation
  • AI-agent orchestration — directing coding agents against real codebases with explicit verification requirements
  • Trading systems research — Solana ecosystem, DEX arbitrage detection
  • Chrome extension development — content scripts, background workers, platform APIs

Certifications & Education

Professional Certifications

Google Certified IT Support Specialist | Jan 2024 Operating systems, networking, systems administration, customer support fundamentals.

Google Data Analytics Certification Data analysis and interpretation, SQL, data visualization, statistical fundamentals.

Google AI Essentials | Sep 2024 Generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, responsible AI considerations.

Google Design Prompts for Everyday Work Tasks | Jan 2026 Advanced prompt engineering for productivity and creative work.

In Progress:

  • Google IT Automation With Python Certification — automating IT tasks and systems with Python scripting

Formal Education

General Education Diploma | Chattahoochee Technical College | 2012

Philosophy & Approach

How I Think About Systems

  • Systems are interconnected — change one thing, others shift
  • Constraints create clarity, not limits
  • Edge cases are where real people actually live
  • A system has to survive real, unattended maintenance to count as done

What I Optimize For

  • Does it actually work? — verified against real output, not a summary claiming it works
  • Will it survive? — can it handle maintenance and change without me babysitting it
  • Am I proud of it? — would I stand behind this in a technical conversation

See How I Think for more on this.

Open Opportunities

Freelance: contact center automation, data pipelines, game prototypes, backend architecture

Full-Time or Contract: senior engineer roles where architecture and correctness matter, on teams shipping real products

Collaboration & Consulting: technical architecture review, system design consultation, AI-agent-directed development workflows

How to Reach Me

Email: [email protected] GitHub: rfd62794 LinkedIn: Robert Dugger Full project list: rfditservices.com/projects

Last updated: July 2026