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Shelbe Yousey

About

ShelbeYousey.

Portrait of Shelbe Yousey

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

I’m a Computer Science student at The University of Alabama, in the Honors College and carrying a 4.00. Before that I was at The American School in London, where I graduated valedictorian.

Most of what I know I learned by shipping. I founded GymDoe and built it end to end — a native SwiftUI app with Watch and widget targets, sitting on an Express and PostgreSQL API I wrote myself. I’m also CTO at Click and Close, where I built an AI receptionist that has handled 300+ calls and the dashboard clients run it from. Earlier I co-developed an iOS marketplace that went on to win $20K at Innovate Alabama.

I like the parts other people hand off — the auth flow, the webhook that has to be idempotent, the migration, the App Store submission. That’s usually where the product is actually won.

01Experience

What I’ve been doing.

May 2026 — Present

Tuscaloosa, AL

Chief Executive Officer

GymDoe

  • Built and launched GymDoe, a full-stack fitness platform with workout tracking and social features, now serving 200+ users.
  • Own the entire stack: a native SwiftUI client with Watch and widget targets, and an Express + Prisma + PostgreSQL API.

Oct 2025 — Present

Tuscaloosa, AL

Chief Technological Officer

Click and Close

  • Built the company's two products end to end: an AI receptionist assembled from n8n, Retell AI and the Google Calendar API, and Lighthouse, the dashboard clients run it from.
  • Made onboarding self-configuring — a new client goes live from basic information alone, with no per-account engineering.
  • Handled 300+ calls across the pilot, with immediate outbound callback on form submission driving the conversion lift for clients.
  • Engineered a personalized outbound marketing system generating dynamic emails and custom video content at scale.
  • Developed an LLM-powered prospecting pipeline using Perplexity and external APIs to identify high-intent leads and generate tailored business value reports.
  • Continue to maintain both products, shipping features and fixes against client needs.

Feb 2026 — Present

Tuscaloosa, AL

Freelance Software Engineer

Cruise Funding · HelpHand LLC

  • Designed AI-driven email campaigns, engineered an automated lead research pipeline, and built a lead scoring algorithm.
  • Co-developed an iOS app connecting college students with local odd jobs for two Samford University students — it went on to win $20K at Innovate Alabama.

Sep 2025 — Present

Tuscaloosa, AL

Team Leader

The Edge — Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute

  • Spearhead development of two separate companies for the RiverPitch and ALDAG competitions.
  • Won 1st prize at the RiverPitch Business Pitch Competition and 1st in New Business Idea Group at ALDAG.
02Education

Where I studied.

Expected May 2028

The University of Alabama

B.S. Computer Science · Tuscaloosa, AL

GPA 4.00 / 4.00

  • Honors College
  • President's List
  • Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
  • President's Cabinet Scholar
  • Artificial Intelligence Club

June 2025

The American School in London

High School Diploma · London, England

GPA 4.00 / 4.00

  • Valedictorian
  • National Merit Scholar
  • 1560 SAT
  • National Honor Society
  • 13 AP courses
03Toolkit

What I build with.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Swift

Frontend & Mobile

  • React
  • React Native
  • SwiftUI
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS

Backend & APIs

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • tRPC
  • REST
  • Webhooks

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • SQL

Auth & Payments

  • Clerk
  • Google OAuth
  • Stripe

Cloud

  • AWS S3
  • Vercel
  • Railway

AI & ML

  • OpenAI
  • Perplexity
  • Retell AI
  • YOLO
  • Neural networks

Automation

  • n8n
  • Puppeteer

Let’s build something.