About me.
I'm an IT professional and entrepreneur on the Gulf Coast. I spent the better part of a decade as a structural welder on Navy and commercial vessels at yards across the region — Ingalls, Trinity Yachts, VT Halter Marine — before teaching myself the other side of infrastructure: servers, networking, self-hosted software, and custom software built for specific needs. In 2025, I taught myself local machine learning and started hosting my own photos, then kept going — files, documents, passwords, cameras, streaming, email — until almost nothing in my digital life depended on infrastructure I didn't own. That same instinct became Rose Data Solutions, LLC: on-site private infrastructure for businesses, nonprofits, and government, so they own their data instead of renting it indefinitely.
Outside of infrastructure, I'm also opening food trucks along the Gulf Coast. I'm a software engineer and indie developer behind Agony Online and BattleSide on Steam, and I created GabHub, a social media platform built around free speech.
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Digital Sovereignty.
Digital sovereignty means I know where my data is, who can reach it, and how to move it. I run my own platform on Windows Server and Docker behind Cloudflare Tunnel, and use outside infrastructure only where it earns its place.
- Google Drive→Nextcloud
- Google Photos→Immich
- Microsoft 365→ONLYOFFICE
- Cloud passwords→Vaultwarden
- Cloud AI→LocalAI
- Google Search→SearXNG
- Feed algorithms→FreshRSS
- Live streaming→MediaMTX
- Cloud cameras→Reolink, local storage
- Streaming services→Plex
GitHub.
github.com/CayleRoseA selection of public projects and utilities from my GitHub profile.
- FlipperZero-BadUSB-Payloads
A collection of personal BadUSB payloads and related Flipper Zero experiments.
- Google-Photos-Date-Fix
A PowerShell utility for restoring missing timestamp data in Google Photos exports.
Software.
- Desktop Bodycam
A Windows tray app for continuous screen recording and quick highlight capture.
Features
- Start and stop multi-monitor recordings from the system tray.
- Save highlights with a global hotkey and configurable pre-roll.
- Adjust bitrate, frame rate, chunk duration, output folder, and audio settings.
- Use fragmented MP4 to help preserve completed video fragments after a power loss.
- Configure file-size and storage limits with automatic cleanup of older recordings.
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- License Admin Panel
A custom-built panel for managing authored programs and their licenses.
Features
- View and manage authored programs and their licenses.
- Issue licenses with Individual, Business, or VIP plans.
- Restore or revoke licenses from the admin panel.
- License deletion requires an explicit confirmation.
- Program deletion requires three confirmation steps, including entering the exact program ID; it revokes related licenses, deactivates devices, and preserves audit history.
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- Software Lag Switch
A Windows utility for temporarily blocking outgoing network connections from a selected running app.
Features
- Select a running app to block its outgoing connections using a temporary, per-executable Windows Firewall rule.
- Hold a configurable keyboard or mouse hotkey, including mouse side buttons, or set it to toggle on each press.
- Use the on-screen status control to block or restore the selected app's connection.
- Administrator permission is requested when a block is first activated.
- Automatically removes the temporary firewall rule when the block is released or the app exits.
- Includes optional sound feedback and a license window for license activation and deactivation.
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Game development.
- Agony Online
A medieval horror MMORPG built in a simple mid-2000s style that doesn't require a wiki page to play effectively. We miss the great old style of MMOs. We're indie developers who want to play our own game and stay involved at the player level, so AO can be everyone's game.
- BattleSide
A 5,000-player persistent MMOFPS spanning land, sea, air, and space, where you and your squad defend and capture control points to gather resources for your faction in battles of endless fun.
Rose Data Solutions
Your data. Your building. Your control. I set up on-site private infrastructure for local businesses, nonprofits, and public organizations, so they own their files instead of renting storage forever.
The work covers on-site servers and file storage, private backups, local camera systems, local AI, networking, and remote IT support. You own the hardware and the data. I make it simple enough to use every day.
