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Andrew Mayes
ai engineer · director of technology · legal tech
St. Petersburg, FL · me@andrewmayes.com · in/mayesandrew · @mayes
## SUMMARY
AI engineer and technology director working where applied AI meets the litigation record. Leads technology across the seven affiliated entities of Executive Reporting Service — one of Florida’s longest-running court-reporting firms — owning the software, infrastructure, and compliance behind the legal record, and ships legal-industry AI tooling independently as DepoStack. Focused on privilege-safe, on-device systems: the places where sensitive legal data can’t leave the building, so the AI has to come to the data instead.
## EXPERIENCE
Founder & Builder · DepoStack
Jun 2026 — present- →Design, build, and ship AI software for the legal industry independently — free, open-source tools for the people who produce the record.
- →The umbrella behind DepoAudio and CasePrompts.
Director of Technology · Executive Reporting Service
Oct 2020 — present- →Lead technology for seven affiliated legal and reporting entities across the firm's Tampa Bay offices — setting the modernization roadmap for one of Florida's longest-running court-reporting firms and owning the in-house software behind it.
- →Build the firm's in-house automation — deposition intake and delivery, plus AI integration into reporting workflows — bringing startup speed to a 45-year-old institution; the firm runs DepoAudio, an on-device court-audio tool built independently under DepoStack, as standard workflow.
- →Run the network and cloud backbone across every site — UniFi networking, VPN, servers and backup/recovery, Microsoft 365, Dialpad, and Dropbox — keeping depositions and client-facing services reliable.
- →Leading the 2026 consolidation of the firm's brands onto a single Microsoft 365 tenant, absorbing an acquired office's systems and infrastructure.
- →Own security and compliance for the litigation record: maintain PCI DSS across entity payment systems, drive SOC 2 and HIPAA readiness, and keep sensitive transcripts and case audio on controlled, on-device pipelines.
Web Developer · Bowen Imagery
Jan 2008 — Aug 2020- →Designed, built, and maintained client websites on content-management systems and open-source frameworks.
- →Diagnosed and fixed front- and back-end issues across PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, keeping client sites stable.
Media Consultant · Unity Worldwide Ministries
Sep 2014 — May 2017- →Cut printing costs by migrating the organization's communications from print to a blog platform.
- →Built an automated weekly newsletter that drove readership to the new blog content.
- →Maintained and troubleshot the organization's websites, keeping them current and reliable.
## PROJECTS
Free, open-source desktop app converting proprietary court audio (SGMCA/FTR/BWF) to standard formats, on-device. Tauri, Rust, React, FFmpeg.
Free, copy-ready AI prompts for litigation, built on the CITE method. Currently in preview.
## SKILLS
Claude / Claude Code, multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), evals, local / on-device LLMs, prompt engineering
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Astro, Python, Node.js, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Docker
Cloudflare Workers, AWS, Supabase, vector databases, Git/GitHub, CI/CD
UniFi networking, VPN, servers & backup/recovery, Microsoft 365 tenant admin, Dialpad VoIP, Dropbox, multi-site AV / Zoom
PCI DSS, SOC 2 / HIPAA (in evaluation), on-device processing, transcript & PII security
court-reporting production (video/transcript sync, audio processing, exhibit delivery), real-time transcription, e-transcript delivery, remote depositions
## WRITING
Essays on applied AI, privilege-safe systems, and building legal tech — andrewmayes.com/blog.