Chris LeeBergstrom
I spent 20 years building live shows. Now I build the software that runs them — and a few other things along the way.
I spent 20 years building live shows. Now I build the software that runs them — and a few other things along the way.
Run a small underground music venue — book bands, keep the crew right, dodge incidents, balance the books. A PNW dive-bar sim in cyberpunk-noir. Twenty years of running venues, turned into a game.
An AI assistant that lives in your inbox. Email byte@firstlyte.co, get a thoughtful reply in under 30 seconds — no app, no login, no account. Handles attachments, remembers threads, routes to the right model.
01
Ideate
I orchestrate
Brainstorm, Socratic dialogue, multi-model research (Gemini for breadth, Grok for speed, Claude for depth), decision gate. Open questions get explored by multiple models; I evaluate the options and choose the approach.
02
Build
Claude Code as primary agent
Full context loaded — CLAUDE.md, design docs, memories. Three to four parallel branches at once. The agent writes code, runs the dev loop, commits, catches Biome/CI errors and auto-fixes without human intervention.
03
Verify
Adversarial gauntlet
Biome and the test suite as the quality floor. Codex reviews the same repo with instructions to be brutal — signs every report. Critique gets fed back to Claude: 'what do you think of this?' A third model breaks the echo chamber when needed.
04
Deploy
I approve the diff
My eyes on the delta before merge. The agent triggers Render deploys via MCP — services, cron jobs, workers. Sentry monitors live; runtime errors loop back to the build agent for patches.
05
Maintain
Living docs, self-maintaining
Agents update their own CLAUDE.md. Periodic drift checks against architecture specs. Every failure becomes a better instruction. Memory plus git plus persistent context equals seamless continuity across machines and sessions.
Twenty-five domains, seven at expert depth, fluent across the rest. Active in AI-native development since the GPT-2/3 era — four-plus years compounding through every model generation.
AI
AI & Data
LLM orchestration across Claude, Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and local models. Model internals — tokenization, quantization, embeddings, inference tuning. Generative AI across image (Midjourney, Flux), voice (ElevenLabs, Whisper), music (Suno), and video (Runway). Custom Graph RAG, vector databases, persistent AI memory.
ENG
Engineering
Frontend (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Canvas/WebGL). Backend (Supabase + Postgres with RLS, Node/Bun, tRPC/REST/GraphQL, Python, Rust/Go). Edge performance (Cloudflare Workers, multi-region, offline-first). Security (OAuth, OWASP, bot defense). Infrastructure on Render and Cloudflare. CI/CD with a robust test suite.
LIVE
Industry Domain
Audio engineering and production tech — Pro Tools, Logic, Dante/AES67, SPL/RT60/FFT measurement, MIDI/OSC/DMX show control. Live entertainment operations — advancing, settlements, crew logistics, FOH engineering, stage management, ticketing, IATSE compliance, $10K–$1M+ productions, festivals at scale.
HUM
Business & Human
Product strategy and architecture trade-offs. Design and UX informed by Jakob's Law and iOS HIG. Contract negotiation, IP protection, revenue modeling. Technical and creative writing (including The Archivists). People leadership and live crisis management.
The road came first. Front of house, tour management, technical direction — the credits are the reason the software is any good.
FOH
Front of House
The Dandy Warhols. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Macklemore. Arenas, festivals, and civic halls.
TM
Tour Management
International touring. Routing, advancing, settling. The work that decides whether the show even reaches the stage.
TD
Technical Direction
Venue operations and production direction. Two decades of front-of-house and studio work — some of it credited, some of it not.
20Y+
Span
Twenty-plus years building live shows. Now building the software that runs them.
Got a project, a venue, a tour, an idea worth building? Send a note. Real replies, real fast.
chrisleebergstrom@gmail.com
Also consult on venue operations, AI training, and web security — ask if it's relevant.
