Fighting Entropy LLC · Software consulting
The work is software.The point is human.
Entropy wins by default. Stars burn out, codebases rot, teams drift apart, attention frays. Fighting it — actually creating order where there was none, value where there was waste, life where there was decay — is the whole game. It's what it means to be alive.
I'm Dylan, and Fighting Entropy is my one-human software consultancy, organized around exactly that. Every engagement is a small wager that we leave a system more ordered, more useful, more alive than we found it. And that someone on the other end gets a little more of their life back.
Why this matters
We get one shot at this experience called life. A finite handful of decades to figure out who we want to be, who we want to spend it with, and what we want to build before our energy fades and the lights go out. The hours we spend at work are real hours of our lives. They have to be worth it, both to us and to the people on the other side of what we make.
Software, done well, is one of the most leveraged ways to give people their time back. A well-designed system can do in minutes what used to take weeks — freeing entire afternoons and whole careers for the things that actually matter. Family. Friendship. Creation. Laughter. The experiences that don't fit in a calendar slot.
That's the bet behind every engagement. Whatever we build together, the question I'm quietly asking is whether it leaves real people freer, more capable, and more able to spend the time they have on what they love. If yes, the work is honest. If not, we're just moving data around.
What this means in practice
I take on software work across pretty much any domain. Greenfield builds, rescue projects, platform consolidations, ugly integrations, internal tooling, prototypes, technical diligence — if there's a real problem on the other side and the goal is to make something better, I want to hear about it.
I'm especially at home in deep tech and complicated problems (think: physics, regulation, systems with real-world consequences) but I'm a software engineer first. The domain is negotiable. What matters is whether the work is honest, and whether real people are better off when it ships.
If you're not sure whether your project is a fit, that's exactly what the fit check is for. It's free, low-pressure, and the honest answer is sometimes "I'm not the right person for this, but here's who is." Either way, you leave with a clearer picture of the problem and a half-hour of someone genuinely thinking about it with you.
How we'd work together
Fit Check · free, 30 min
A quick call to understand the problem and see if there's a real match before either of us invests more time.
Blueprint Sprint · fixed-price, 1–2 weeks
A bounded engagement that ends with something concrete you keep — an architectural map, a decision document, or a working prototype — regardless of whether we work together after it.
Ongoing Engagement · hourly or retainer
For sustained work. Typically part-time or project-based. Remote-first, with on-site availability in New Hampshire and the broader Northeast when it matters.
Where I've gone deep
A few of the rooms I've spent the most time in. Not the menu — just a sense of the kind of work I've taken seriously.
Software engineer on the hardware-as-code platform for small modular reactors. Built a compiler that turns engineering diagrams into multi-disciplinary optimization runs and NRC-ready artifacts, plus the regulatory grapher that pulls structured constraints out of NRC documents. If we get this right, licensing a new reactor design starts looking less like a decade and more like a year.
Senior engineer on the dispute-automation pipeline — the engine that audits ocean-freight invoices, catches unfair detention and demurrage charges, and routes them for recovery. Owned chunks of the auditing intelligence and the platform infrastructure underneath it. The system has clawed back over $10M for importers who used to treat those fees as the cost of doing business.
Senior engineer on Pulse, the core platform serving a flatbed carrier network that grew past 20,000 members. Wrote the banking integrations that paid carriers in minutes instead of waiting weeks on ACH, and stood up the factoring engine that fronted invoices so small operators could keep wheels turning. The plumbing that quietly decides whether a one-truck shop makes payroll.
Co-founder and CTO. Built and led a ten-person engineering team that shipped a textbook platform seeded with 100,000+ open-source books — so cash-strapped students didn't have to pick between rent and required reading. Raised $600K to fund the build, and got an honest first lesson in what it costs to make a company exist.
Availability
Currently taking new engagements. Billing runs through Fighting Entropy LLC, based in New Hampshire. Work is remote-first with occasional on-site availability in the Northeast. If you've got a problem worth solving — or a vision for something that could make a few more lives a little better — the fastest path is a half-hour fit check. No pitch, no pressure, just a real conversation.
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