Joseph
Soper
AI & Agent Systems / Software Engineering / DevOps & Cloud
I build software, AI systems, and the infrastructure to run them. Founder of BezaCore Labs — a DevOps, AI & software studio — and a lifelong builder who ships things that actually run in production.
// 01 — Profile
Builder first, founder now.
I've been building software since I was a teenager. Before I made it my full-time craft, I spent 10+ years in sales — which turned out to be an asset, not a detour. I read what people actually need, translate it into what to build, and stay focused on the outcome, not just the code.
Today I'm the founder of BezaCore Labs, a DevOps, AI/agent & software-development studio. My work spans the full arc of shipping modern software: Python / FastAPI backends and REST APIs, LLM-integrated agent pipelines and RAG systems, and the production cloud infrastructure — self-hosted or on GCP — to run all of it reliably.
I hold an uncommon advantage: I can take a project from a blank repo to a running production service on infrastructure I built and automated myself. My homelab, BezaForge, is a real private cloud — Proxmox, GPU-passthrough local LLM inference, containerized services behind Traefik, full observability — codified end-to-end with Terraform and Ansible. I learn by shipping.
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer · IBM Back-End Development Professional · BS Computer Science (in progress, 2027)
// 02 — The Studio
BezaCore Labs
I founded BezaCore Labs to build and run cloud-native software and AI — productized services for clients, plus products of our own. Four pillars, one through-line: build-and-run modern software.
// 03 — Selected Work
Things I've shipped.
A production private cloud built from bare metal — Proxmox VE hypervisor, AMD GPU passthrough for local LLM inference (ROCm), a multi-VLAN Omada SDN with inter-VLAN firewall policy, a dozen Docker services behind Traefik v3 with wildcard TLS, and a full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Uptime Kuma). Every layer is codified: Terraform provisions the VMs, Ansible configures them.
A full production website designed, built, deployed, and maintained for a local congregation — WordPress + Divi 5, a Dockerized local build, git-based deploy, and transactional email. Real client work: content architecture, a members' photo/media hub, and a sanctuary-display slideshow, handed off so non-technical staff can run it themselves.
My personal AI assistant, running live on a self-hosted agent bridge. Routes across models — cloud APIs with a local Ollama fallback — with tool use over my own files and services, a Discord interface and a web dashboard, scheduled autonomous tasks, and full LangFuse tracing. A working sandbox for the agent patterns I build for clients.
One idempotent Ansible run that provisions a complete Arch Linux developer workstation from bare metal — packages, dotfiles, services, and the full developer toolchain. The automation that stands up the machines the rest of this work is built on.
The BezaCore Labs studio site — designed and shipped end-to-end. Next.js 16 server build on Cloud Run (containerized, output:standalone), custom circuit-powered hero motion, contact + waitlist API routes, and Google Cloud DNS. Built, deployed, and running in production.
// 04 — Capabilities
Technical Skills
// 05 — Contact