I'm Crystal Brock. I design agentic workflows and deploy local LLMs for people who can't send their data to somebody else's cloud. I also hold a Cybersecurity degree with formal training in the risk frameworks that govern them. Unchecked automation is a liability, not an improvement.
Most people who build automation don't think about governance, and most people who think about governance can't build. I do both, and the overlap is where I'm most useful.
I architect agentic workflows and deploy local language models (Whisper, Piper, and RAG pipelines) for organizations that need intelligence without data leaving the building. I'm at my best given time and access to a system: I'll find the friction and design it out.
I genuinely enjoy compliance work: mapping controls, assessing maturity, and turning technical findings into something a stakeholder can act on. My degree concentration covered security auditing and enterprise risk management against SOX, NIST, and COBIT.
Drawn from coursework, certificates, and self-directed builds; nothing aspirational.
Applications that run, not course exercises sitting in a folder. Some are deployed; one runs on my own machine every day.
A self-hosted accountability system: it picks random moments in the day, announces a chore on an Echo, and puts a full-screen window up until you answer it. Flask, 11 modules, 151 tests, and a scheduler built so ambushes don't clump into the evening.
View on GitHubA drag-and-drop word game: three guesses per word, letters dragged into place, and fewer guesses means more coins. 253 words across four difficulty tiers, with streaks and progress kept in the browser rather than behind an account.
Visit live siteA four-mode advice app: choose what you need and get support matched to it. Privacy-first by design, so the only thing stored is a list of quote ids in your own browser, keeping you from reading the same line twice. A headless smoke test guards the built bundle.
Visit live sitePython and SQL applied to practical IT automation tasks.
Cisco network routing, CompTIA A+ preparation, IT Essentials I & II.
Invitation-only society. Systems thinking and DISC-based interpersonal management.
Recognizes academic excellence and persistence among non-traditional students.
Tailored to the two tracks I'm actively pursuing. Both are current as of 2026.
Agentic workflow design, local LLM deployment, API integration, and Python-based automation.
Download PDFEnterprise risk management, security auditing, framework mapping, and stakeholder advisory.
Download PDFI'm actively seeking work in AI automation and systems architecture, or in governance, risk, and compliance.
Or email me directly at crystalbrock619@gmail.com