Automation engineer, North Carolina.

I build n8n workflows for businesses that need them to hold up when things go wrong, not just when the happy path works.

Most of my time goes into the unglamorous half: what happens when an API returns 200 OK with an empty body, when an LLM hands back a polite apology instead of JSON, when a nightly job quietly stopped firing three weeks ago and nothing errored. Error branches, dead-letter queues with enough context to replay by hand, and guard layers for the failures that don’t throw.

I also run self-hosted models on my own hardware for clients who legally can’t send data to a public API, and I do scraping work against sites that actively fight back.

Working code and write-ups: github.com/stevenmakarion