Neil Godfrey
Software engineer. Builder of small useful things. Writing it down as I go.
I’m a software engineer building Godfrey Labs — a small portfolio of products in active development: Sage Daily (a daily oracle reading), Paid Daily (a SaaS for full-time traders), Yearly Photos (B2C personalized print), and Build Daily itself. I write production code across the full stack: Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, Python and Node on the backend, AWS underneath, and self-hosted infrastructure for the AI side — local LLMs, Neo4j-backed agent memory, retrieval pipelines.
Before this, fourteen years in consumer-lending engineering — building the systems that originate, underwrite, and service loans at scale. That work gave me a real appreciation for financial data pipelines, regulatory constraints, and the kind of correctness-first engineering that finance demands.
What this site is
Build Daily is the public surface of that work. Every post, daily log, and project page here is a real artifact from an active build — not content written to rank, but notes written because the work happened and writing it down makes it sharper.
The site itself is open-source, statically exported from Next.js, and deployed to CloudFront. There’s a personal agent on the homepage trained on my own markdown corpus — ask it what I’ve been building.
What I work with
- Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind
- Backend: Python, Node.js, FastAPI, Express
- AI / Agents: DSPy, Ollama, LlamaIndex, Claude Code, Neo4j-backed memory, retrieval and fine-tuning pipelines
- Infrastructure: AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS, RDS), Docker, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, self-hosted GPU server
- Past work also covers: mobile (iOS/Android), .NET → Next.js modernization, on-chain integrations (Base, Ethereum)