14 Months In — April 2025 to June 2026
From the Work. From the City. From the Build.
Fourteen months ago I posted for the first time as Dungo Digital. I was a government engineer with too many ideas and a one-hour commute. Today the doctorate is incoming — DoW SMART Scholar, fully funded — and the role is clear: doctoral student, Community Technologist, and AI-native field correspondent building the national circuit from San Antonio, one sprint at a time. Sending the elevator back down.
The Announcement
Full-ride doctoral scholarship. Doctorate of Information Technology. Accepted.
Last month the letter came. After years of being the educator in the room, the engineer in the meeting, and the person building bridges across every gap I could find. Now I get to go back and learn. Fully funded. And document every step of it in public.
This is The Triad — government, industry, and academia. Three sectors that rarely talk to each other. Now all in one lane. One person. One mission.
The Triad — Three Sectors, One Operator
Doctoral Student — Incoming
Doctorate of Information Technology at Capella University. Fully funded by the Department of War SMART Scholarship. Researching applied AI, systems, and the pipeline between underserved communities and the tech workforce.
From Uvalde, TX — no CS classes growing up. Sending the elevator back down.
Full-Time Technologist
The federal lane of The Triad. Real systems, real stakes, real constraints. Documented publicly only at the level that stays safe and useful.
Government, industry, academia. Three sectors. One operator.
Community Technologist + Field Correspondent
Techs in the City is the field-reporting and community layer: field notes, dispatches, event coverage, sprint logs, and the tools built in public. SA's first nationally-traveling, AI-native tech correspondent — operating on the Knight Rider OS. Building the national correspondent circuit from San Antonio — August road arc is next.
San Antonio's tech scene is slept on. The dispatches are the receipts.
One Brand System
The site has more surface area now, so the names need to stay clear without turning this page into a legal memo. The public structure is simple: one company, one front door, one flagship product, and one field-reporting lane.
Dungo LLC
The entity. Formal contracts, ownership, and commercial operations route here.
Dungo Digital
The front door. The website, contact path, public legal stack, and umbrella brand live here.
DigiTag
The flagship product. Interactive entertainment and community-play experiments live here.
Techs in the City
The field-reporting lane. Community coverage, sprint logs, and the public-facing media layer live here.
The Sprint System — Why 14 Days at a Time
Every 14 days is a sprint. Not a corporate framework — the Knight Rider OS. A personal operating system built around mobility, voice capture, and shipping in public. Plan publicly, ship publicly, log publicly. The OBS overlays on the work session streams show the sprint number and day in real time. The website board reflects what is done, in progress, and next. Voice memos from the commute get processed through the D.U.N.G.O. AI pipeline and turned into field notes, dispatches, captions, and sprint plans.
The sprint vlog is the show. Dungo Digital is the studio. The mobile studio, the screen time, the rooms covered. All proof of work. All on the record.
Sprints started January 4, 2026. Currently on Sprint 14.
CS instructor at Texas A&M San Antonio 2024–2026. Spring 2026 closed cleanly. Chapter archived.
The Knight Rider OS — Mobile Studio
The operation runs from a van. The one-hour commute is the input layer — voice memos, field audio, raw observations captured in motion and processed through the D.U.N.G.O. AI pipeline into field notes, dispatches, and sprint plans. This is not aesthetic. It is what an AI-native field correspondent working across The Triad actually looks like.
The van is the mobile studio. The commute is the show. The sprints are the receipts. If Knight Rider had an AI copilot and a Substack, it would look like this.
Field Notes & Dispatches — Where to Follow
Techs in the City is the running field log — field notes, dispatches, and live coverage of what it means to operate at The Triad. It lives on Substack and Medium. It is where work, doctoral prep, community reporting, and builder experiments meet in public. Not polished after the fact. Logged sprint by sprint, day by day.
Work sessions stream live on YouTube with dungodigital.io as the backdrop. If you are here for the real story of a Community Technologist covering San Antonio tech and building in public, start here. Follow @dungodigital across platforms for sprint updates, field notes, and the full unfiltered build log.