Harbor City, California

Projects, machines, and craft, under one roof.

Vallery is the holding company for everything I build: engineering ventures, a garage full of machines I wrench on myself, art, and infrastructure that runs itself. By day I run logistics at nationwide scale. If something here resonates, I consult too.

Ventures

The projects

A mix of active ventures and long-running experiments. Each one started as a problem I wanted to solve for myself.

Active

Mooncat Odyssey

A flagship creative venture. Full write-up coming soon.

Active

Stratherm

An engineering venture in development. Full write-up coming soon.

Operations

Vallery Ops

Workflow automation for operators. Messy admin processes turned into working systems, with no new SaaS to adopt. You own what I build.

valleryops.com →
Backbone

Herby ZHC OS

The in-house operating system behind it all: dashboards, event routing, and automation that tie every project together on self-hosted hardware.

Dormant

Blockscrypt

A crypto mining operation, built and run hands-on: rig design, power management, and day-to-day mining ops. Now scaled back, but the expertise remains.

Always on

The workshop

Everything in between: hands-on builds, repairs, restorations, and experiments that do not fit neatly into a single venture.

The collection

The garage

A working collection, maintained and diagnosed in-house. Every one of these gets driven, wrenched on, and understood down to the module level.

CL600

2003 CL600

The V12 flagship coupe.

  • ChassisW215
  • EngineM275 twin-turbo V12
CL600

2006 CL600

The flagship, one more time.

  • ChassisW215
  • EngineM275 twin-turbo V12
E55 AMG

2004 E55 AMG

The supercharged super sedan.

  • ChassisW211
  • EngineSupercharged 5.4L V8
E500

2004 E500 Wagon

The V8 family hauler.

  • ChassisS211
  • Engine5.0L V8
S55 AMG

2005 S55 AMG

The supercharged flagship sedan.

  • ChassisW220
  • EngineSupercharged 5.4L V8
SL600

1995 SL600

Azurite Blue two-tone roadster.

  • ChassisR129
  • EngineM120 V12
912

1966 Porsche 912

Air-cooled, analog, and honest. My dad and I took it in trade for fixing the transmission on someone's Studebaker. Mostly my dad.

  • EraEarly long-hood
  • EngineAir-cooled flat-four
  • ProvenanceThe Studebaker trade
SCHIADA

1989 Schiada 24'

Bought new by my dad in '89. I ripped into it two years ago, got it ready for a run to Parker, Arizona, and now I'm hooked all over again.

  • Length24 feet
  • TypePerformance boat
  • ProvenanceIn the family since new
Off the clock

Art

A gallery of original work is coming together. Check back soon.

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The day job

Logistics at scale

The projects above are what I build. This is what I run.

Director of Logistics, Thistle

I joined Thistle ten years ago and helped scale it from a California-only brand into one that serves customers nationwide. We did it by building a bespoke delivery network from the ground up, covering middle, last, and final mile, powered by a logistics team of more than a thousand people.

10 yearsBuilding and scaling operations
CA → NationwideFrom one state to the whole country
1,000+Logistics team members
3 milesMiddle, last, and final, all in-house
Hire me

Consulting

Everything on this site is firsthand. If you need someone who has actually built, broken, and fixed these things, I take on select consulting engagements.

Logistics & supply chain

Delivery network design, middle to final mile, scaling operations from regional to nationwide, and building the teams that run them. A decade of doing it for real at Thistle.

Automation & infrastructure

Workflow automation, self-hosted AI, secure networking, and web infrastructure. This work is productized under Vallery Ops, with a free workflow audit and fixed-price sprints.

Start at valleryops.com →

Crypto & mining operations

Rig builds, power and thermal management, and the operational realities of running mining hardware, learned running Blockscrypt at scale.

General problem-solving

The odd, cross-domain problems nobody else wants: part mechanical, part digital, part bureaucratic. Bring me the weird ones.

Contact

Have a project in mind?

Tell me what you are working on, or what is broken. If it is interesting, I will make time for it.

Email me