generlmoo.me // Chester Grudzinski

Computer Engineer across hardware and software

Current Logistics Operations Engineer @ KNAPP (Aug 2026)

Full-stack engineer at TickerTrends - built a production financial-analytics platform with async job orchestration, WebSocket progress streaming, S3 caching, and LLM-powered summaries.
Designed a 720 V high-voltage battery management system in Altium Designer with firmware for real-time thermal monitoring; passed all electrical safety tests.
Run a Raspberry Pi 5 homelab behind Cloudflare Tunnel with zero inbound ports - NAS, media, DNS filtering, and automated backups.

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Logistics Operations Engineer at KNAPP. Full-Stack Engineer at TickerTrends.

Amateur radio KJ5QXS

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About

I’m a Computer Engineer - B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas (Dec 2025) - who works comfortably across the hardware/software boundary. My background runs from high-voltage battery management systems and embedded C firmware to production full-stack platforms and self-hosted infrastructure.

Right now I’m a Full-Stack Software Engineer at TickerTrends, and I’ll be joining KNAPP as a Logistics Operations Engineer in August 2026. Outside of work I run a Raspberry Pi homelab, and I’m a licensed amateur radio operator (KJ5QXS) currently building a VHF/UHF ground station.

Focus areas

Embedded systems + hardware integration
Full-stack platforms + data pipelines
Infrastructure, automation, and reliability

Tooling mindset

I optimize workflows with scripts, structured logs, and clear operational docs - on both the bench and the backend.

Experience

Roles across full-stack software, IT/automation, and embedded hardware engineering.

Logistics Operations Engineer Current

Aug 2026

KNAPP

Joining KNAPP’s logistics operations engineering team, applying systems and automation experience to warehouse and intralogistics operations.

Full-Stack Software Engineer - Financial Analytics Platform

Jan 2026 - Present

TickerTrends

Built a production report platform delivering financial trend metrics using Playwright rendering, async job orchestration, WebSocket progress streaming, S3 caching, block-based templates, and LLM-powered summary generation.
Hardened production security by patching ~70 SQL-injection vulnerabilities across 27 service files, optimizing YoY computation from O(n²) to O(n), and preventing Chromium OOM failures via concurrency limits.
Re-architected cron orchestration - migrated tracking from Redis to PostgreSQL, added health/error metadata across 39 scheduled workloads, and isolated processing onto dedicated backend infrastructure.
Built resilient ingestion and analytics pipelines over social, search, web, and RSS sources, handling Cloudflare-blocked responses, malformed feeds, rate-limited APIs, and multi-year backfills.

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IT Support Specialist

Jul 2025 - Jan 2026

Young and Associates Inc.

Designed and deployed FastParse, a Python GUI tool that parses bank-issued PDF statements into structured accounting data and imports transactions directly into QuickBooks - eliminating a paid third-party dependency.
Automated depreciation/amortization workflows with a Python bot for ATX, raising data-entry throughput from 2.7 to 12.5 accounts per minute while reducing manual errors.
Recovered critical data from a compromised BitLocker-encrypted NVMe drive via forensic-safe imaging, decryption analysis, and a full Windows rebuild to restore business continuity.

FastParse

Systems Engineer - Battery Management System

May 2024 - Dec 2024

Dallas Formula Racing

Designed and assembled a 720 V high-voltage BMS in Altium Designer; produced a functional prototype that passed all electrical safety tests.
Developed embedded firmware for Texas Instruments battery-management hardware to monitor voltage, current, and I2C temperature sensors (TMP100) for real-time thermal monitoring and early fault detection.

Projects

Personal builds spanning embedded, RF, infrastructure, and digital design.

Amateur Radio Ground Station

RF · VHF/UHF · Satellite · KJ5QXS

Building a VHF/UHF ground communication station as a licensed amateur radio operator (callsign KJ5QXS), using a handheld Arrow II dual-band Yagi antenna for terrestrial and low-earth-orbit satellite contacts.

Gear: Arrow II 146/437 dual-band Yagi, handheld transceiver, portable ground setup

Pixel Canvas - r/place-style Board

Full-Stack · Real-Time · Discord OAuth · WebSockets

A collaborative r/place-style canvas where users sign in with Discord and place pixels on a shared grid, with live updates synced across everyone in real time.

Tech: Discord OAuth, WebSockets, real-time shared state

Live Demo

Raspberry Pi Homelab

Linux · Networking · Cloudflare Tunnel · Self-Hosting

A self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 platform with NVMe storage, NAS services, media streaming, and DNS filtering - served securely behind Cloudflare Tunnel with zero inbound ports, encrypted automated backups, and disk-health monitoring.

Features: NAS, media, DNS filtering, encrypted backups, private recursive DNS

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Custom 24-bit CPU Architecture

Verilog · Computer Architecture · Digital Design

A multi-cycle 24-bit CPU designed and implemented in Verilog - datapath, control FSM, ALU, register file, and a custom instruction set with simulation tests.

Tech stack: Verilog, simulation, FSM control

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Temperature Control System

Embedded C · I2C · ESP32 · Wi-Fi

Implemented the I2C protocol in C on an ESP32-C3 to read a TI TMP100 sensor (including hand-soldering and correct pull-up design), with an embedded Wi-Fi HTTP server for real-time remote temperature monitoring.

Built with Dallas Formula Racing