Cody Hall

I'm an independent developer who builds investigative research tooling and public-interest technology. The projects tend to sit where public-records data, social justice for marginalized communities, data infrastructure, and edge computing overlap.

Most of my projects involve processing large volumes of public records like IRS filings, corporate registrations, and campaign finance data, then making them queryable and useful for researchers and journalists who need to understand complex networks.

I work across a wide range of stacks. I've shipped projects on Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud, Netlify, Vercel, and self-hosted open-source infrastructure, with knowledge graphs in Neo4J, columnar analytics in ClickHouse, and content managed in Payload, WordPress, Wix, or Shopify depending on what the client already runs. The choice of platform follows the problem, not a default.

Before software, I spent four years in financial crimes investigation at Wells Fargo, working fraud and claims cases and then supervising a team of investigators. After that I spent roughly a decade running my own e-commerce and production brands, where I was the developer, the marketer, and the person packing the boxes. That combination is why I think data systems should make complex information accessible to the people who need to act on it, not just store it.

Based in New York. Open to consulting on investigative data infrastructure, research platform builds, and public-records data tooling.