Boston, MA

Brian Tea, P.E.

Engineer. Learner. Builder.

Tinkering with AI to make games, tools, and things that (mostly) work.

I spent six years at Dow Chemical leading engineering programs up to $55M, then spent this summer at TD Bank digging into synthetic identity fraud with Python, SQL, and SAS.

Now I'm finishing a Master's in Analytics at Georgia Tech and building with data, automation, and AI, because I don't just manage workflows, I build them to eliminate work.

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Projects

Gloo AI Hackathon 2026 · Team project

FeaturedOngoing

OnBoard

Winner, Best of the Ministry Track · $20,000 team prize

5 of 7

testers said sending an update felt faster than what they do now

A mobile web app that helps solo missionaries and one-person ministries turn small moments from the field into prayer requests and newsletters in their own words, without exposing the people they serve.

→Capture: type or talk a moment, and AI tags it so it's easy to find later.
→Write: AI finds themes across chosen moments and drafts only from your words. No added facts, quotes, or verses.
→Privacy Check: flags full names and locations and blurs faces in photos. Nothing publishes without approval.
→Partner side: a two-way prayer board and Journeys that let supporters follow one story over time.
→Still testing and improving with missionaries and campus ministers.

My role:: Helped lead the team, contributed ideas, built the prototype, and helped with the initial pitch.
Team:: Christopher Lee, Javier Soto, Jedidiah Gabrielle Santos, Rita Dong, Thanh Tran, and me

Hackathon winners ↗

React
TypeScript
Vite
Fastify
Drizzle
PostgreSQL
Gloo AI Studio
Gemini
Whisper
MediaPipe
FastAPI

Browser game · Personal project

FeaturedLive

Frontline Squad

automated browser tests run before every change ships

A first-person shooter that runs in the browser with no install, no account, and no game server. Inspired by Combat Arms, with some Halo and Call of Duty mixed in.

→13 modes, 9 maps, an in-game map editor, bots with skill levels 1 to 10, and vehicles.
→Multiplayer for up to 12 players, peer to peer over WebRTC. The host's game is the referee.
→Ships as one self-contained HTML file. All art, audio, and music are generated in code.
→Every bug fix ships with a test that fails without it.

My role:: Set the vision, play-tested every build, and decided what to keep, cut, and fix. Claude wrote most of the code.

Play it ↗GitHub ↗

JavaScript
three.js
WebRTC
Vite
Playwright
Claude Code

TD Bank · Summer 2026

Featured

Synthetic identity fraud analysis

~7%

of loss dollars came from ~0.25% of accounts

Investigated synthetic identity fraud in the Target Circle Card portfolio using portfolio and credit bureau data.

→Segmented accounts and evaluated anomalous behaviors and loss patterns to surface fraud indicators.
→Partnered with a fraud SME and consumer credit stakeholders to turn findings into business insights.

Python
SQL
SAS

Concept · Proposed OMSA capstone with Frontier Commons and IFI

Prototype

Downstream

When a currency crashes, a flood hits, or conflict breaks out abroad, students from that country are often studying here. Downstream connects news signals from abroad with data on where international students study, so IFI can see which U.S. places may need attention, and why.

→Clickable prototype with mock data, a guided tour, and a no-signup demo mode.
→Map, weekly digest, and a transparent explanation of how each place is scored.

Try the demo ↗

JavaScript
D3
Supabase
Vercel

Self-hosted app · Personal project

Coming soon

Scribe Bot

A private, self-hosted app that turns recorded conversations into searchable transcripts, tasks, decisions, and people notes.

→Speech recognition and speaker identification run locally on a home server. Audio never leaves my devices.
→Private meetings never touch a cloud AI.
→A public demo with sample data is in progress.

Python
FastAPI
sherpa-onnx
Tailscale
Claude

Frontier Commons Build Bootcamp

Live

Splitwise clone

A working Splitwise clone: create or join a group, add shared expenses, and see who owes whom.

→Create an account to try it. A no-signup demo mode is coming soon.

Live ↗GitHub ↗

Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind
Supabase
Vercel

Frontier Commons Technical Challenge · Aug 2026

Pledge reconciliation dashboard

Built a pandas data reconciliation pipeline and a Streamlit dashboard to evaluate transaction history against pledges.

Live app ↗GitHub ↗

Python
pandas
Streamlit

Azure

Cloud-based AI vendor risk assessment

Developed a model to analyze and categorize unstructured vendor inspection reports.

→Partnered with SMEs to define the taxonomy, evaluation criteria, and measurable outputs.
→Documented workflows and repeatable analysis steps for consistent classification and reporting.

Azure
AI / ML

Personal infrastructure

Self-hosted automation and local AI

Built and maintain n8n automation workflows running in Docker on my own server hardware, alongside local LLMs.

→Workflows include generating YouTube videos from Reddit posts and producing video ads from static assets.
→Compared Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and Nemotron on generating working n8n workflow code.

n8n
Docker
Python
APIs
Ollama
MLX
llama.cpp

How I build with AI

I direct, AI writes, I check

I set the goal and the constraints, Claude Code writes most of the code, and I review and test every change before it ships.

Tests over trust

Every bug fix comes with an automated test that fails without the fix, so the same bug can't quietly come back.

Decisions live in the repo

Rules, pitfalls, and decision logs are written down next to the code, so the next session (human or AI) starts from what we already learned.

Experience & education

Sep – Oct 2026
Frontier Commons
Innovation Fellow, Build lane
- →8-week fellowship.
Jun – Aug 2026
TD Bank
Graduate Leadership Program Intern, Consumer Products & Credit Management · Boston, MA
- →Found a synthetic-fraud segment: ~0.25% of accounts, ~7% of loss dollars.
Aug 2019 – Oct 2025
The Dow Chemical Company
Technical Program Manager · Senior Mechanical Design Engineer · Houston, TX
- →Led end-to-end delivery of 10+ programs, up to $55M.
- →Delivered a project with 90% CO₂ reduction, recapturing 20,000 metric tons of flare gas CO₂.
- →Technical SME for robotics and automation deployments.
- →Aligned 20+ engineers and global stakeholders. Mentored 5+ interns and junior engineers.
Expected May 2027
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. Analytics · GPA 4.00 · Online
May 2019
The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Mechanical Engineering with Honors · GPA 3.83 · Austin, TX

Data

Python · SQL · R · SAS · pandas · Predictive modeling · Regression · Simulation

Build & AI

n8n · Docker · Streamlit · APIs · Ollama · MLX · llama.cpp · Azure

Leadership

Technical program management · Cross-functional teams · Requirements from ambiguity · Professional Engineer (P.E.)

Contact

Email is the fastest way to reach me. My resume (PDF) has the details.

Emailbriantea716@gmail.com LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/brian-tea ↗GitHubgithub.com/branmuffn ↗