Network Operations
Routing, switching, wireless, firewall support, incident response, field coordination, and practical documentation.
Aiken, South Carolina
Dee Elder builds reliable systems for messy real-world work.
Infrastructure, networks, campaign software, technical operations, documentation, and practical tools for teams that need reliability more than theater.
Current signal
Building Ladybug Campaigns, an app-first campaign operations platform with encrypted messaging, onboarding, calendars, media review, admin workflows, and iOS/Android alpha work.
20+ years
hands-on IT and infrastructure work
Ladybug Software LLC
founder building app-first campaign operations software
300 APs
large campus wireless deployment experience
What I Do
Reliable infrastructure, explained clearly.
My core work is keeping networks, endpoints, services, vendors, and users pointed in the same direction. I have supported Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki, Palo Alto, VMware, healthcare systems, account workflows, and the everyday messy details that determine whether technology actually works for people.
Right now I am also building Ladybug Campaigns, a mobile-first organizing platform for left-leaning political campaigns. It brings together supporter intake, permissions, calendars, media review, encrypted messaging, and admin workflows in one campaign workspace.
I am especially interested in mission operations support, secure infrastructure, civic technology, and technical operations roles where reliability, procedures, and calm troubleshooting matter.
Product & Platform Build
Cloudflare Workers, D1/R2, Authentik/OIDC, TypeScript, React/React Native, encrypted messaging, and mobile alpha delivery.
Technical Support
Patient, direct support for end users and clients, including healthcare environments, campaign teams, and HIPAA-aware workflows.
Operational Systems
Dashboards, recovery notes, backup procedures, local AI workflows, testing checklists, and tools that turn chaos into repeatable process.
Selected Projects
Built to learn, inspect, organize, or explain.
Ladybug Campaigns
An app-first campaign operations platform for left-leaning campaigns, with supporter onboarding, admin roles, calendars, media review, and end-to-end encrypted messaging.
Project Dashboard
A local workbench dashboard for tracking active projects, handoffs, time estimates, AI spend, state changes, and resume commands.
Workbench recovery and operations
Self-hosted procedures, service notes, backup planning, local development helpers, and recovery documentation for keeping a busy home lab usable.
Scientific visualization tools
Exploratory tools including VICAR image viewers, H.A.N.K., Maxwell's Equations visualizations, and other projects for making complex data inspectable.
About
Technical, curious, and practical.
I am a trans woman based in Aiken, SC. I have run a computer repair business, supported a university campus network, handled sole-IT responsibilities in medical offices, trained software clients, and run as a Democratic candidate for SC Senate District 24.
In 2026 I formed Ladybug Software LLC to turn that campaign, infrastructure, and support experience into practical software for organizers. I like tools that make the real work clearer: dashboards, checklists, diagrams, readable documentation, and small utilities that remove friction. I use AI heavily, but I treat it as draft machinery that still needs source checks, judgment, and human review.
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