Technical Consulting
Architecture reviews, build-versus-buy calls, and an honest read on where a codebase or a delivery process is hurting you.
Meet the Founder
Built From Experience
Pat Guy brings over 30 years of enterprise healthcare IT experience to every Mindshovel engagement, the majority of it in PACS and DICOM image management. Throughout his career at one of the nation's largest healthcare organizations, Pat served as an IT Architect - designing, integrating, and implementing complex medical imaging and technology systems at scale.
"I enjoy the technical challenges, solving the hard problems, and seeing the look on a customer's face when everything comes together exactly as they envisioned."
Pat Guy, Founder
- PACS & DICOM Image Management
- 30+ Years IT Architecture & Implementation
- Home Automation via Home Assistant & IP Integrations
- Experienced AV Integrator & ISF Calibrator
- Network & Security - UniFi Solutions
- Technical AV Consultant for Commercial Organizations
- AI-Assisted Engineering with Claude Code
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Beyond the enterprise, Pat has spent years immersed in audio and video from both home theater and commercial perspectives. He has served as a technical subject-matter expert - handling design, implementation, and after-sale support - for multiple AV organizations across Mobile and Baldwin County, and has architected and implemented home automation and networking solutions for residential properties of every scale, from modest installations to large, complex projects. Widely recognized as a go-to authority on networking, home automation, and AV solutions, Pat stays continually current with the latest technologies in each, ensuring every Mindshovel engagement benefits from proven, up-to-date expertise.
A proud alumnus of the University of South Alabama, Pat holds both undergraduate and master's degrees, giving him a deep technical foundation spanning architecture, systems integration, networking, and AV technology.
He also builds the tools he wants to exist: plugins and remotes for Unraid servers, integrations for Unfolded Circle remotes, and audio software for Roon and HQPlayer listeners. Everything he builds runs through the same discipline: AI-assisted review on every pull request, tests that can fail, and a human signing off before anything merges.
Services
How I Help
Design
Systems and integrations designed around how the hardware and the people using it actually behave, written down before anything is built.
Implementation
Hands-on delivery: integrations, self-hosted infrastructure, CI and review pipelines, and the tests that keep them working after handoff.
AI
AI-Assisted Engineering
Pat builds and runs the infrastructure that lets AI agents do real engineering work safely: review that gates every merge, self-hosted pipelines, and Claude Code working inside the same rules as a human engineer.
AI Review on Every Pull Request
A self-hosted review service runs two Claude agents on each pull request, a reviewer and an adversarial auditor, and posts a verdict that blocks the merge until the findings are fixed.
CI Gates and Guardrails
Shared gates on every repository: secret scanning, Conventional Commits, no untracked deferrals, tests required alongside code changes, and scope checks that keep each change to one concern.
Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Forgejo with Actions runners on dedicated hardware, Cloudflare tunnels for remote access, and a release path to GitHub Pages so public traffic never reaches the home network.
Claude Code in the Loop
Claude Code works through scoped tokens and protected branches: it opens pull requests, answers review findings with tests, and merges only on green, while a human keeps the final say. MCP integrations connect it to audio measurement and music systems.
Work
Projects & Contributions
Built
- ucweb Web remote for Unfolded Circle Remote 3 and Remote Two: activities, lights, thermostats, entities and live status from any browser.
- urbk Consistent, encrypted, verified backups of everything an Unraid server runs: containers, compose stacks, VMs and the flash drive.
- urrt Android remote for Unraid servers, with signed release builds.
- Home Lab Control Self-hosted dashboard for a home lab: service status, daily health checks, logs, network and Docker inventory.
- UGREEN LEDs for Unraid Unraid plugin that drives the front-panel status LEDs on UGREEN DX and DXP NAS units.
Contributed
- Spotify for Unfolded Circle Quota-aware polling so the integration stops tripping Spotify's rate limits. Merged upstream.
- Eversolo for Unfolded Circle Album art for Lyrion Music Server playback on Eversolo streamers. Merged upstream.
- The Rabbit Hole Lyrion, HQPlayer and interface additions to a Roon music discovery app.
Insights
Technology Insights
Notes on AI, healthcare technology, software delivery and the networks that hold it all together.
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AI in Medical Imaging: Where It Actually Helps Radiology
Where imaging AI earns its place in a radiology department: worklist triage, detection assists and quantification, and the integration, validation and monitoring work that decides whether it helps.
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AI Code Review: A Second Reviewer on Every Pull Request
What an AI reviewer is good at, where it falls short, and how to wire one into pull requests as a gate without handing it the merge button.
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Segmenting the Smart Home: VLANs for IoT, Cameras and Guests
Why a flat home network is a risk once it holds dozens of smart devices, and how VLANs, firewall rules and discovery relays keep cameras, IoT gear and guests apart without breaking anything.
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Resources
Code & Apps
Where the code lives, and the native apps built for the gear around it.
Source Code
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Source Code
GitHub
Every public project, release and fix in one place: the Unraid plugins and remotes, the Unfolded Circle integrations, and the upstream contributions.
Open GitHub
Apps
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App Studio
MiyaraHub
MiyaraHub Technologies, an independent studio in Van Alstyne, Texas, making native apps for AV receivers, NAS, UPS, HDMI processors and networks.
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Contact
Let's Talk
Consulting, a design review or a build: send a short note on what you are working on and Pat will get back to you.
pat.guy@mindshovel.com
Email Pat