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Joey Schnepel

Builder // Researcher // Coach

I build autonomous systems that interact with humans. From enterprise platforms to self-balancing robots, every project starts with the same question: what does this need to do, and what is the simplest path to get there.

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Years coaching
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Years engineering
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Active builds

Robotics

Ballbot

Robots don't have personality. So I'm building one that does — a self-balancing bot with Disney-inspired character behaviors.

JetsonROS2PID

AI / ML

Defect Detection

TSMC was classifying wafer defects by hand. I built a CNN that cut inspection time by 60%.

PyTorchCNNCV

Platform

Echelon Point

Brokerages were drowning in manual lead work. I built a SaaS with AI agents that automate the whole pipeline.

Next.jsAWSAI

// I don't start with the framework. I start with the constraint.

// The best systems feel inevitable in hindsight.

// Ship the 80%. Refine the 20% that matters.

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What 16 years of coaching taught me about system design
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Multimodal tokenization for real-time social perception
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Building a RAG system in a restricted corporate environment
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Joey Schnepel — Phoenix, AZ — 2026