Infrastructure-first builder with a product operator mindset.
Nick Wharton is an IT Director by day and a self-hosted systems builder by night. The same operator running enterprise storefronts also maintains a 20-machine AI fleet, ships products, and keeps client systems stable.
The through-line is ownership — own the infrastructure, understand the blast radius, and build software that can survive real operations, not just a demo day screenshot.
tinyblue.dev is the operating portfolio: case studies, targeted landing pages, direct conversion paths, and enough context to decide quickly whether there's a fit.
Most of what shows up here is one person doing the full stack — kernel to checkout — without a platform team behind it.
Home, work, VPS, mobile nodes
Fleet-wide persistent agents
Products & client work in production
Production k8s namespaces
Selectable AI models across EXO and Ollama
Core AI and infra stay self-hosted
Proof beats slides.
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Delivered a real portfolio that doubles as a working AI surface instead of a static brochure.
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Turned owned hardware into a flexible AI and product platform for multiple live businesses.
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Maintains systems that span consumer experiences, internal tools, and sensitive client workflows.
Senior generalist with ops realism.
IT Director handling enterprise e-commerce, tax, shipping, and internal ops.
Builder of a 20-machine self-hosted AI fleet with persistent agent workflows.
Ships consumer products, operational tooling, client systems, and experiments from the same stack.
Contributor mindset shaped by open-source tools including EXO and OpenClaw.
Short bio, long bio, and the basics.
A simple media kit makes it easier to share the work, reuse a bio, or grab a resume summary without hunting around.
Short bio
Nick Wharton is an IT Director and self-hosted infrastructure builder based in Kansas City. He runs a 20-machine AI fleet, ships products across multiple domains, and builds systems with zero patience for unnecessary cloud rent.
Long bio
tinyblue.dev is the public portfolio for Nick Wharton — a solo operator working across infrastructure, AI systems, full-stack development, and client delivery. The site highlights live systems, not conceptual mockups, with an emphasis on owned hardware, operational clarity, and shipping software that can survive real use.
A compact story arc.
Day job, fleet build-out, products, and the operating portfolio itself.
IT Director at Strange Music
Enterprise storefronts, tax systems, shipping operations, network/admin support.
Built the S.A.M fleet
Turned a home infrastructure obsession into a multi-node AI platform.
Shipped Get Your Crocs Off, SmurfVillage, CardsCloud
Applied the same stack to commercial products and consumer experiences.
tinyblue.dev as operating portfolio
The site itself became a product, routing visitors directly into case studies and AI-assisted exploration.
Move from credibility into proof or a real conversation.
About supports the rest of the site — it shouldn't stop the journey.