From port operations to agentic stacks.
I started in computer science at FIU in 1998 — back when shipping software meant burning a CD. I left to run port logistics, first as General Coordinator of Haiti's National Port Authority, then by founding USL Group: a multi-country freight operation now FMC-recognized, with TSA-registered consolidation in Miami and operations across Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.
In 2021 I came back to code. The University of Miami's Fintech program retrained me on Python, Solidity, blockchain, machine learning, and decentralized finance. My capstone was a Solidity contract for cross-border trade finance — the same problem I'd been solving with paper for fifteen years, rebuilt as an Ethereum settlement layer.
Today I ship two products as a solo technical founder. The day-to-day is terminal-native: hand-coded Python and Solidity, the rest of the stack orchestrated through Claude Code. I am one person operating like a team — and ValAdrien.dev is how I install that on other founders.
