Damian Sanchez

Product engineer building software for complex physical operations.

I design and ship systems that connect software with physical assets, facilities, infrastructure, and the people operating them.

My work includes an internal operations platform managing more than 150,000 serialized assets, a multi-site Bitcoin mining data-center platform, and cross-platform tooling for industrial equipment.

I use AI-assisted development as a force multiplier to move quickly from operational problem to production software—owning product decisions, architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, and iteration.

[Now]

  • —Building internal software at Advanced Crypto Services across asset management, warehouse operations, repair workflows, logistics, and customer reporting.
  • —Expanding Helm across managed Bitcoin mining sites and developing cross-platform tools for site operators.
  • —Based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas.

[Built]

  • ACS Portal

    2025 – present · Private production system

    Internal operations and asset-lifecycle platform

    Designed and built the operational system used to track assets, shipments, warehouse inventory, repairs, and chain of custody across a rapidly growing industrial services company.

    • —150,000+ uniquely serialized ASIC mining assets tracked
    • —Hundreds of full-truckload shipments and approximately 5,000 pallets managed
    • —Audit-ready records connecting assets, customers, work orders, shipments, documentation, and physical locations
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    Advanced Crypto Services grew rapidly while taking on larger customer programs, warehouse operations, repair volumes, and logistics requirements. Existing spreadsheets and disconnected workflows were no longer sufficient for tracking serialized equipment or producing reliable records for customers.

    I conceived, architected, and built ACS Portal as the operating system for those workflows.

    The platform connects each serialized asset to its customer, shipment history, pallet, warehouse location, work orders, repair records, status changes, and supporting documentation. It also supports inbound and outbound logistics, inventory management, scanning, chain of custody, customer reporting, and operational workflows across the business.

    The system now contains more than 150,000 uniquely serialized ASIC mining assets and has supported hundreds of inbound and outbound shipments and approximately 5,000 pallets.

    The records are operationally and financially important. When shipment quantities, asset ownership, or delivery details are disputed, the company can reconstruct the complete history using serial-number scans, pallet identifiers, bills of lading, signed documents, photographs, attachments, work orders, and customer records.

    Rather than relying on spreadsheets, messages, or incomplete memories, the business can produce a defensible record showing what arrived, where it moved, what work was performed, and what ultimately left the facility.

    I built the platform as a highly autonomous product engineer, owning operational discovery, workflow design, product decisions, system architecture, application development, cloud infrastructure, deployment, user training, and ongoing iteration with warehouse employees, technicians, managers, and company leadership.

    AI-assisted development allowed me to move rapidly from user feedback to production improvements and deliver a system with a scope that would traditionally require a larger product and engineering team.

  • Helm

    2026 – present

    Bitcoin mining data-center operations platform

    Designed and built a multi-site monitoring, automation, and operations platform for industrial Bitcoin mining facilities.

    • —Approximately 5,000 ASIC servers monitored across five managed sites
    • —Combines equipment health, power and environmental telemetry, maintenance, automation, and site operations
    • —Explains performance and downtime through granular infrastructure, equipment, repair, and event data
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    Helm is a multi-site operations platform built for industrial Bitcoin mining data centers.

    The current generation supports approximately 5,000 ASIC mining servers across five managed sites. Earlier generations of the system, previously developed as ACS Site Scanner and Watchtower, supported more than 15,000 devices across six sites.

    Helm connects equipment telemetry, site infrastructure, maintenance workflows, and operational events into a shared system for understanding and improving data-center performance.

    The platform brings together three major layers of the operation:

    Equipment

    ASIC telemetry, hashrate, temperatures, fans, hashboards, firmware, configurations, device status, repair requirements, and warranty eligibility.

    Infrastructure

    Power consumption, environmental conditions, electrical events, cooling constraints, site layouts, and facility-level performance.

    Operations

    Work orders, maintenance records, remote commands, alerts, automation, repair workflows, energy strategies, reporting, and downtime classification.

    Helm goes beyond basic equipment monitoring. It can identify degraded hashboards, surface chip-level problems, estimate required repair parts, track warranty periods, correlate ambient temperature with performance loss, maintain service histories, and categorize the causes of downtime.

    That distinction is important when reporting site performance. Instead of reducing everything to a single uptime percentage, Helm can show whether equipment is offline because of electrical work, infrastructure limitations, manufacturer warranty repairs, hardware failure, maintenance, or another operational cause.

    This gives operators and customers a clearer and more defensible understanding of what is happening across the site.

    I built the platform end to end, including Golang device integrations and edge software, Python services, APIs, PostgreSQL and time-series data systems, AWS infrastructure, Terraform, Docker, automation, and user-facing applications.

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  • Helm Toolkit

    2026 – present

    Cross-platform ASIC discovery and configuration application

    Built a modern cross-platform desktop application for discovering, monitoring, and configuring ASIC mining equipment on local networks.

    • —Native builds for Windows, Linux, Apple Silicon, and Intel macOS
    • —Supports discovery, live monitoring, filtering, pool configuration, batch actions, and exports
    • —Written in Go and distributed through an automated multi-platform release pipeline
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    ASIC mining operators still rely on several aging utilities that were designed years ago, often for Windows-only workflows and a narrower range of hardware and firmware.

    I built Helm Toolkit as a modern cross-platform alternative.

    The application discovers ASIC mining equipment across local networks and provides a single interface for monitoring and managing mixed hardware and firmware environments.

    It supports:

    • —Network discovery
    • —Live device monitoring
    • —Search and filtering
    • —Pool presets and configuration
    • —Batch actions
    • —Power controls
    • —Firmware-specific settings
    • —Device commands
    • —Log downloads
    • —CSV exports

    Helm Toolkit is available as a native desktop application for Windows, Linux, Apple Silicon Macs, and Intel Macs.

    The application is written in Go and distributed through an automated multi-platform build and release pipeline. Versioned artifacts are published to Amazon S3 and surfaced through platform-specific links on the Helm website.

    The project combines local-network device communication, desktop application development, cross-platform builds, release automation, product design, and direct distribution to end users.

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[Background]

I started studying Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2020. After my first year, I left to join an early-stage Bitcoin mining company building an industrial site near my hometown in Illinois.

I began close to the physical work: deploying equipment, building networks, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical systems, repairing machines, and helping operate the facility day to day.

That experience shaped how I build software. I learned that operational problems rarely begin as neatly defined engineering tickets. They begin with incomplete records, fragmented tools, repetitive work, equipment failures, infrastructure constraints, and people trying to keep a physical business moving.

At Advanced Crypto Services, my role evolved from hands-on field operations into product and systems development. When rapid growth exposed gaps in asset tracking, warehouse management, repair workflows, logistics, and customer reporting, I built the internal system the operation needed.

I later designed Helm to connect mining equipment, site infrastructure, maintenance, automation, and operational data across multiple facilities.

Because I understand both the physical operation and the software stack, I can move from a problem observed in a warehouse or data center to the architecture and production system needed to solve it.

The common thread in my work is leverage: replacing recurring manual effort with systems that improve the performance of the entire organization.

I am especially interested in physical-world businesses where software can create leverage, improve operations, and have an outsized impact.

[Working Style]

  • —Start with the operation. I learn how the work is actually performed before deciding what software should be built.
  • —Own the complete problem. I move comfortably across product discovery, workflow design, architecture, applications, data systems, infrastructure, deployment, and production support.
  • —Use AI as a force multiplier. I use Cursor, Claude, and other AI development tools to accelerate research, implementation, debugging, and iteration while retaining responsibility for product judgment, architecture, and production quality.
  • —Build with users. I work directly with operators, technicians, warehouse teams, customers, and leadership rather than building from isolated requirements.
  • —Create leverage. I look for systems that solve recurring problems across an entire operation instead of repeating the same manual task one instance at a time.

[Contact]

Working on a hard problem in the physical world?

I am always interested in meeting people building ambitious products and operational systems where software can create real leverage.