Doby Baxter Computing — Independent Software Engineering

I make software systems predictable, observable, and hard to misconfigure.

One focus behind everything I do: preflight checks that catch invalid states before they reach production, across configuration and validation, AI-workflow reliability, and developer tooling.

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< Professional Endorsement />

"Doby has demonstrated strong technical skills, thoughtful system-level thinking, and a clear focus on usability and maintainability. He played a key role in developing innovative tooling driven by real user and community needs. He is proactive, reliable, and communicates clearly, particularly when working on complex or cross-cutting features."
โ€“ Mission Payload Senior Software Engineer, European Space Agency

< What I Do />

Different problems, one idea behind all of them: systems that are predictable, observable, and hard to misconfigure. Whether your team calls it a preflight check, a sanity check, validation, or guardrails, the job is the same: catch the bad state before it ships.

Configuration & Validation

One wrong value shouldn't be able to take down production. I make sure it can't.

AI Workflow Reliability

AI features that loop, drift, or break silently — made deterministic and traceable.

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Developer Tooling

The fragile manual step everyone dreads, turned into one safe command.

Scientific Software

Research pipelines that give the same answer twice — and that others can reproduce.

Security & Forensics Tooling

After an incident: how it actually happened, traced to the evidence, never guessed.

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Systems Architecture

The failure modes hiding in your system, made visible before they bite.

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For small businesses & independent founders

< Founding Client Program />

Testing and validation shouldn’t be a luxury only big teams can afford. So I’ve built an accessible first step: a fixed-price Starter Reliability Review — a focused, read-only look at the part of your system most likely to fail quietly, for one clear price you can see before you commit.

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Stay on as a regular client and you keep a standing 25% thank-you — because I want your business to succeed, not just get through this month.

Independent vision ยท open blueprint

< Social Resource Floor />

A separate, long-term idea of mine held at arm’s length from client work, and open to collaborators.

A floor beneath which no person should fall (My long-term vision)

Human survival should not depend on financial access.

The Social Resource Floor is an open blueprint for a universal structure through which people can access the resources needed for basic survival grounded in being human, not in financial status. It’s designed as a coordination layer above existing social-protection systems like OpenSPP and OpenG2P, not a replacement for them.

At its heart is a dream of a world where every human being has access to the resources they need to survive, live with dignity, and have a meaningful quality of life regardless of their financial circumstances, where they live, or the government and economic systems they happen to exist within.

It’s early-stage and exploratory, which is exactly when extra minds matter most. Contributors from social protection, engineering, policy, or lived experience are welcome.

< Let's build something reliable />

Whatever's breaking — or about to — tell me what you're working on.

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