Building software that helps people understand their money.

I’m Randy, founder of Augustus Engineering. I’m building My Money Ledger and BudgetScope to make everyday spending easier to understand. My background spans software engineering and engineering leadership, with a focus on reliable systems and practical uses of AI.

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Current focusAugustus Engineering · My Money Ledger · BudgetScope

Open toConversations about senior software engineering, AI engineering, and engineering leadership roles.

BUILDING SOFTWARE

14+

years, professionally

PREVIOUSLY LED AT ARCHER

engineers

BASED IN

Kansas, USA

CERTIFICATION AWS Solutions Architect Associate · issued April 2026

SECTION / 01PRODUCTS

CURRENT FOCUS

Two apps. A clearer view of everyday spending.

A broad view of your finances, and a closer look at grocery prices. Built for people who want to understand where their money goes.

01PERSONAL FINANCEPrivate beta

My Money Ledger

A personal finance app I’m building to help people understand where their money goes and see their spending more clearly.

Connect bank accounts through Plaid into a local ledger on iPhone and Mac, then ask questions about your finances.

Engineering behind the app

I built the app, data workflows, and assistant. Qwen3 on device (MLX on Mac, a 4-bit quantized model on iPhone), Apple’s foundation model, and Claude use the same eight read-only tools; tested code calculates financial figures, and a grounding check verifies that response numbers came from tool results.

That keeps calculations in code while models explain the results.

BUILT WITH

SwiftPython/FastAPI FirebaseCeleryRedisPlaid

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iPhone and Mac · Private beta

02GROCERY PRICESPublic beta

BudgetScope

Turn grocery receipts into a personal price history, so you can compare what you paid across stores and over time.

Capture a receipt, confirm uncertain lines, and use your history to compare prices.

Engineering behind the app

I built the receipt pipeline and full-stack app. A Python service parses receipts with RapidOCR and falls back to the Claude API when the parser cannot reconcile a receipt; low-confidence lines go to the user for confirmation before becoming useful price history.

Human review handles uncertain extraction instead of treating a model’s output as certain.

BUILT WITH

.NETAngular SwiftPython MySQLPostgreSQL/pgvector

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Grocery price history · Public beta

SECTION / 02ABOUT

RANDY AUGUSTUS

Engineering experience, applied to my own products.

Augustus Engineering is where I’m building My Money Ledger and BudgetScope. The common thread is helping people make sense of financial information. I bring experience building and leading software teams, and I care about making the work understandable, dependable, and useful.

My background is in C# and .NET, Angular, distributed systems, and engineering leadership across fintech, insurance, and regulated enterprise software. Today I apply that experience to hands-on work in Swift, Python, and practical AI.

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EXPERIENCE

Selected engineering work and experience.

Before focusing on Augustus Engineering, I worked in engineering leadership and software development. Here is the experience I bring to the products I’m building today.

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01Jul 2025 — Present

Augustus Engineering · Lenexa, KS

Founder

Product direction · Hands-on engineering

Building My Money Ledger and BudgetScope, with responsibility for product direction and hands-on engineering.

Built financial data workflows, model tool calling, receipt processing, and the self-hosted infrastructure behind the products.

Run both products in Docker across a Proxmox homelab and DigitalOcean, with Jenkins build gates and OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana observability.

02 Oct 2024 — Oct 2026

Archer Integrated Risk Management · Overland Park, KS

Engineering Manager

Team of 5

Managed the close-in work of engineering: 1:1s, growth plans, hiring, performance tracking, technical direction, and delivery outcomes.

Owned architecture and product decisions in a fast-moving environment, then kept the path short enough for features to move from concept to production in days.

Drove CI/CD automation and test strategy improvements so the team could ship faster with confidence, and used Datadog for production monitoring and troubleshooting across the team’s services.

03 Oct 2020 — Oct 2024

Orion Advisor Technology · Omaha, NE

Software Engineer

5-person team

Built resilient REST APIs for trading platforms where correctness and uptime were non-negotiable, and integrated RabbitMQ and Amazon SQS via MassTransit for message-driven workflows across microservices.

Built Angular front-end features, including forms, settings pages, and trading dashboards, and carried a four-year production on-call rotation using Datadog.

Improved data processing speed by 50% with concurrency patterns and reduced CRUD execution by 30% through batching.

Raised code coverage by 5% and spent real time in reviews and pairing across experience levels.

04 Aug 2016 — Oct 2020

Americo Life Insurance Company · Kansas City, MO

Technical Lead / Software Engineer

3-person team

Led a three-engineer team through a .NET Core and Azure migration, including the architecture roadmap and training paths needed to make it stick.

Defined blue/green production deployments with Octopus Deploy. Built middleware APIs for Azure storage and SQL backends, and trained engineers on cloud development patterns.

05 Aug 2012 — Aug 2016

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Kansas City, MO

Software Engineer I / II

6-person team

Shipped enterprise software through a compliance-driven SDLC, where the work had to be documented, reviewed, and boring in the right places.

Led stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, optimized data retrieval by 15%, and helped move legacy systems into MVC.

SECTION / 04 LET'S TALK

CONTACT

Let’s talk about products, engineering, or what comes next.

Interested in My Money Ledger or BudgetScope? Hiring for an engineering role? Exploring the company’s direction? Tell me what you have in mind.