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Andrew Mayes
ai engineer · legal-tech leader · full-stack builder 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 — a Florida court-reporting firm founded in 1981 — owning the software, infrastructure, and compliance behind the legal record, and ships legal-industry AI tooling independently as DepoStack. Focused on on-device systems for sensitive legal data, especially where that data should remain on controlled infrastructure.
EXPERIENCE
Founder & Builder · DepoStack
Jun 2026 — present- →Design and build independent legal software for the people who produce the record, including the shipped, free, open-source DepoAudio utility.
- →Build CasePrompts' free public prompt tools alongside its planned commercial Workbench; develop Exhibits, Review, and Video with separate beta and early-access states.
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 a court-reporting firm founded in 1981 and owning the in-house software behind it.
- →Build the firm's in-house automation for deposition intake and delivery, and integrate AI into reporting workflows. 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.
- →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.
Media Consultant · Unity Worldwide Ministries
Sep 2014 — May 2017- →Migrated the organization's communications from print to a blog platform.
- →Built an automated weekly newsletter linking readers to new blog content.
- →Maintained and troubleshot the organization's websites.
PROJECTS
Free, open-source desktop app converting supported SGMCA, BWF, and standard media on-device; FTR/TRM handling is experimental. Reviewed release v1.0.2: Windows 10/11 x64 · macOS 13.3+ universal. Tauri, Rust, React, FFmpeg.
Working free prompt builder and CITE library for litigation. Templates require source references and professional review; the separate commercial Workbench is a planned preview with no live matter processing.
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, on-device systems for sensitive legal data, and building legal tech — andrewmayes.com/blog.