Steve Bezner — Jersey Village, TX

EVP by day.
Ships code by night.

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[01] about

Builder at the intersection of tech & community

I'm Steve Bezner — most call me Bez. I'm a senior technology leader and civic-tech builder based in northwest Houston.

I work where enterprise software, AI automation, and community tools converge — believing the most interesting problems sit exactly at that intersection.

My philosophy: static-first, lightweight, API-driven, civic-minded. Build tools that work, ship openly, measure what matters.

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Texas A&M University BBA, Accounting · Class of 1994 · Gig 'Em
Steve Bezner
~/operator.jpg — steve bezner
1995
Original ARGUS Developer
6
Yrs on City Council
26.2
Marathon Miles
30+
Years in CRE Tech
[02] philosophy
"What got us here today won't get us there tomorrow."

I believe the most durable organizations are built on trust, not process. Small autonomous teams — empowered, accountable, passionate — outperform bureaucratic ones every time. I'm always in requirement mode: building pipelines of great talent, exploring new technology, and creating space for people to do their best work.

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Trust over process
Give teams the space and authority to accomplish great things without overbearing oversight.
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Always in requirement mode
Continuously building a pipeline of great talent and diverse perspectives — even when you're not hiring.
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Static-first, civic-minded
Build tools that work, ship openly, keep it lightweight. The best civic tech is invisible infrastructure.
[03] work

Day job

30+ years in commercial real estate software — from ARGUS software tester in 1995 to EVP today.

Altus Group
EVP, Customer Enablement & Services · Feb 2026–Present
● current
🏗️
Product Development ARGUS Enterprise, ARGUS Connect, and the ARGUS Intelligence Platform
🤝
Enterprise Clients Cushman & Wakefield, Newmark, JLL, UBS, and more
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AI Adoption Level 1 support AI targeting ~3,000 case deflections/month
📊
Operations Support, Training, Consulting & Resource Planning
City of Meadows Place
City Council — Alderman II · 2014–2020
● elected
🏛️
Elected city council member Served six years representing Meadows Place, TX — a community of ~5,000 in the Greater Houston area. This hands-on experience in local government directly shaped the civic tech projects that followed: JVAppeals2026, HarrisTaxAppeals, and JerseyVillage2026 all grew from understanding exactly what residents need from their local institutions.
[04] career.log

30 years in CRE tech

From software tester to EVP — the full arc.

2026 — Present
EVP, Customer Enablement & Services
Altus Group
2020 — 2026
Chief Software Development Officer
Altus Group · Houston, TX
2016 — 2020
EVP, R&D / Product
Altus Analytics, an Altus Group Company
2014 — 2020
City Council — Alderman II
City of Meadows Place, TX
Elected. Six years in local government that seeded every civic tech project.
2010 — 2016
Vice President, Development & Service Delivery
Altus Group
Led a 100-person development and service delivery organization.
2003 — 2010
Co-Founder & Director, Application Development
Financial Softworks
Co-founded commercial financial software company serving CRE executives.
2000 — 2003
Director
Realm Business Solutions (formerly ARGUS)
1995 — 2000
Programmer & Software Tester
ARGUS Financial Software
Where it all started. Lead tester, then programmer on the core CRE platform.
1994
BBA, Accounting
Texas A&M University
1990 — 1994
Shift Supervisor
Kinko's
Where every great tech career begins.
[05] projects

Running processes

Every public site — civic tools, running resources, industry references, food & health, AI, commerce, and games.

ps aux | grep bez — 15 processes, all healthy
[05.1] civic_tech
🏠
Live · harristaxappeals.org
HarrisTaxAppeals
County-scale property tax protest tool covering 1.1M+ Harris County residential parcels — scaled from a 2,172-parcel Jersey Village prototype. Uses §41.43(b)(3) comparable-home methodology: same HCAD neighborhood code, ±15% sq ft, ±10 years age, geographically closest comps. Enterprise-grade Cloudflare infrastructure: R2 + Workers + PMTiles + gzip compression + rate limiting.
1.1M Parcels Cloudflare Pages DuckDB PMTiles MapLibre GL JS R2 + Workers Python Pipeline Sharded JSON
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Live · jvtaxappeal.com
JVAppeals2026
The original Jersey Village HCAD protest prototype (~2,172 parcels) — the proof of concept that scaled into HarrisTaxAppeals.
MapLibre GL JS Flat JSON GitHub Pages
🗳️
Shipped
JerseyVillage2026
Voter guide for the May 2026 Jersey Village municipal election. A fully automated pipeline: GitHub Actions cron jobs fetch candidate social media daily, pass it to Claude via the Anthropic API with web search tools, and publish AI-generated summaries directly to the live site — no manual updates required.
Anthropic API GitHub Actions Claude Web Search Cloudflare DNS Vanilla JS
[05.2] running
🏃
Live · runhouston.app
run-houston2
Race discovery site for Houston-area runners. Quarterly research pipeline: Claude pulls live race data from the RunSignUp API, validates and normalizes it, then commits verified datasets covering April 2026 through early 2027.
RunSignUp API Claude Code Vanilla JS Flat JSON GitHub Pages
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Full-Stack
run-houston
Full-stack race platform with a React + Vite frontend, FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL + PostGIS database, Docker infrastructure, and a full Jest test suite. Includes separate marketing and admin dashboards.
React 18 FastAPI PostgreSQL PostGIS Docker Jest
[05.3] industry_&_real_estate
🏢
Live
CREFuture
Visionary platform exploring the transformative collision of AI and Commercial Real Estate. Built with Astro.
Astro GitHub Pages
🔧
Live
Sumner Lift Field Manual
Service reference for Sumner lift repair personnel — calculators, glossary, and technical history for field technicians.
Vanilla HTML GitHub Pages Industrial
📚
Live
TDC Tribute
The Texas Department of Corrections — a tribute and historical reference covering history and notable figures.
Vanilla HTML GitHub Pages
[05.4] health_commerce_&_ai
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Live · theplantlab.cc
The Plant Lab
Vegan food science resource — recipes, nutrition research, and science-backed content for a plant-forward lifestyle.
GitHub Pages Custom Domain Food Science
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Commerce
Energized Engines
Shopify e-commerce business selling industrial Sumner lift equipment parts. Customer base seeds ideas for industrial IoT and hardware products.
Shopify E-Commerce Industrial IoT
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Live
Vlad's Jewelers
Single-page luxury jewelry showcase — charcoal theme with gold accents, live product search and filtering, Venmo and email purchase flows, plus a hidden admin panel unlocked by a secret key combo. All state runs in localStorage; no backend.
Vanilla JS localStorage E-Commerce GitHub Pages
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Live
Fred's Daily Briefing
Web front-end for Fred, my AI Chief of Staff. Daily AI-generated briefings surfaced via a lightweight static page.
OpenClaw GitHub Pages Gemini 2.5
🍽️
Live
Amy's Kitchen
Meal planning and rating app for the Energized Engines team. Full-stack: React 18 + Vite + TypeScript frontend with Firebase Auth, Firestore, and Cloud Storage. Google sign-in, meal ratings, upvotes, calendar scheduling, and admin controls.
React 18 TypeScript Firebase Tailwind CSS GitHub Pages
[05.5] games
🎯
Native macOS
shooter
A tiny native first-person shooter for macOS (Apple Silicon) — ~300 lines of C with raylib, no engine, no Electron, compiles to a real Mach-O binary. Shoot patrolling beer mugs in an arena, complete with shotgun viewmodel recoil and procedurally generated sound effects.
C raylib macOS arm64 Make
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Live · Playable
Asteroids
The classic arcade game rebuilt in TypeScript on HTML5 canvas — playable right in the browser. Vite build, auto-deployed to GitHub Pages.
TypeScript Vite Canvas GitHub Pages
[06] ai_stack

The machines behind the machine

A persistent, locally-hosted AI layer running 24/7 — centered on Fred, my AI Chief of Staff on a Mac Mini M4.

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Fred
Chief of Staff · daemon
Local AI chief of staff running on Mac Mini M4 via OpenClaw. Accessible via Telegram bot, backed by Gemini 2.5 Flash, with IMAP/SMTP email integration at fred.onduty@gmail.com.
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Claude Code
Implementation Engine
Claude Max subscription used daily for all implementation work. The /claude Telegram slash command within Fred's workspace shells out directly to the Claude CLI.
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OpenClaw + MCP
Agent Framework
OpenClaw agent framework with Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. Ollama for local LLM inference on idle hardware. Exploring distributed compute across idle machines.
[07] running

On the road

Dedicated endurance runner

Logging substantial weekly mileage tracked via Apple Health. Running is woven into everything — including run-houston2, a race discovery tool I built for the Houston running community. Footwear of choice: Brooks and Xero for high-performance minimalist training.

🤠
Cowtown Marathon
26.2 mi · Fort Worth, TX
 🏙️
Houston Marathon
26.2 mi · Houston, TX
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run-houston2
Race discovery · runhouston.app
[08] tech_stack

Stack & tools

languages

JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
C
HTML5
CSS3
SQL

frameworks_&_libraries

React 18
Vite
Astro
Tailwind CSS
FastAPI
Leaflet.js
Jekyll
Hugo
raylib
Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

data_&_maps

DuckDB
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
Firebase Firestore
PMTiles
MapLibre GL JS
Flat JSON
Shapefile / HCAD

ai_&_ml

Claude (Anthropic)
Anthropic SDK
Gemini 2.5 Flash
HuggingFace Transformers
PyTorch
Ollama
OpenClaw
MCP
VADER Sentiment
NVIDIA NIMs

cloud_&_hosting

Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare R2
GitHub Pages
GitHub Actions
Firebase
Netlify
Render
Docker

hardware_&_embedded

Mac Mini M4
Raspberry Pi 5
ESP32-S3
ESP32-C3
STM32G474
ESP-IDF v5
FreeRTOS
CAN-FD Bus

commerce_&_integrations

Shopify
Telegram Bot API
Gmail IMAP/SMTP
Firebase Auth
RunSignUp API
Reddit API
Apple Health