dennis english.

Dennis English · Frisco, Texas

Turn it up.
Stay curious.

Music. Cocktails. Chief.
And whatever I’m building next.

A live band performing through warm stage haze for a packed crowd in an intimate venue.

The right song
changes the room.

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01 / About

I’m Dennis. I keep music on, care too much about a balanced drink, build things to answer questions, and spend the rest of the time being managed by Chief.

I grew up around Seattle and live in Frisco now. Curiosity is the through-line: what makes a track demand another listen, why one cocktail works and another doesn’t, what software can own, and what happens when I follow a “what if?” all the way to something real.

Music / recent listens

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Lately, in rotation.

  1. Fetching the last few tracks…

Listening history via YouTube Music

Cocktails

Details change everything.

I’m into classics, smart variations, good bars, and drinks where every ingredient earns its place. The ritual is half the fun.

Projects

Questions become builds.

If I’m curious long enough, I usually end up with a repository, a spreadsheet, or a small computer doing a job nobody asked it to do.

Chief, a black-and-rust Doberman, standing in a shallow wooded creek.

Chief / quality control

He has notes.

Chief is my Doberman, occasional trail partner, and full-time quality-control department. He approaches elevators and my decision-making with the same healthy suspicion.

Actual Chief · creek day

Work / two chapters

From retail to business sales.

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01 / 2017 · Seattle → Texas

Built on the retail floor.

I started with Verizon in the Seattle area in 2017 and moved to Texas with the company, growing from retail sales into leadership. It taught me how to read a room, coach toward a number, and make the system easier for people to use.

02 / now · DFW

Now, business sales.

Today I’m an account executive with T-Mobile for Business in DFW, helping companies make smart connectivity decisions. I’m at my best where relationships, decisions, and systems all meet.

02 / Side projects

Things I can’t
leave alone.

Some people let a question go. I usually give it a repository.

01 building now

How much can one tiny computer do?

I wanted this site to be more than a static file. The Pi serves it, streams its own health data over a same-origin WebSocket, sits behind a secure tunnel, and keeps collecting useful jobs. The point is learning by owning the whole stack.
  • self-hosted
  • live telemetry
  • secure tunnel

02 exploring

Can an agent own the outcome?

I’m testing agents on work with a real objective, controlled tools, hard limits, and a scoreboard. The interesting question isn’t whether a model can act—it’s what should be delegated, what should stay deterministic, and how you prove the difference.
  • objectives
  • tools
  • limits
  • evals

03 researching

Does the edge survive reality?

I build market tests that account for data quality, spreads, slippage, latency, and the inconvenient parts people leave out. A pretty curve is easy. A result that survives friction is the interesting part.
  • data
  • backtests
  • friction
  • proof

03 / Just Because

Some things exist
because they can.

No pitch deck. No productivity case. Just a tiny computer doing its thing and a living atlas of the people who wandered through.

experiment 01 / pi-01

connecting

The Pi,
right now.

This site’s tiny host reports in every two seconds—temperature, load, uptime, traffic, and all.

cpu
—%
temperature
—°c
memory
—
uptime
—

experiment 02 / visitor atlas

gathering signals

Who
dropped by?

Every visit leaves one coarse, anonymous dot. No ad tracker, no saved IP address—just enough geography to make the internet feel physical.

Waiting for the first coordinates…

visits
—
people
—
places
—
here now
—

First-party, deliberately coarse, and public by design. IP addresses are used by Cloudflare to estimate an area and are never written to the Pi.

A pale green cocktail on a worn wooden bar beside a venue wristband and dark denim jacket.

Cocktails / the whole menu

Cocktails, properly.

I like the classics, thoughtful riffs, and bartenders who know exactly why each ingredient is there.

Good structure · good ingredients · no unnecessary theater

04 / Contact

Compare notes.

Music, dogs, side projects, or a drink worth ordering twice.

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