About

Who

I'm Brandon. I'm a nurse by training, a healthcare operations leader by career, and for the last two months, a solo developer.

I spent 22 years in the U.S. Navy, first enlisted and then as an officer, working primarily in Emergency and Trauma Nursing. I was in Fallujah, Iraq for most of 2004, including the Second Battle of Fallujah, the heaviest urban combat American forces had seen since Vietnam. I served aboard the USNS Mercy during humanitarian missions. Toward the end of my Navy career my job changed. I was made Director of Process Improvement, running Lean Six Sigma across a Navy hospital's inpatient and outpatient services. That last assignment turned out to be the one that shaped how I think about everything else I've built since.

After retiring I worked a year as a VA clinic manager, then quit the day my son graduated high school in 2013 and spent the next eight years farming eleven acres in Washington state. I left Washington in late 2021 and eventually returned to nursing. Today I work in a cardiology clinic in Missouri.

Why Bioparity exists

In April 2026 a robot crossed the finish line of a half marathon in Beijing with a clock reading 50:26. That's about seven minutes faster than the human world record. Almost every headline said some version of “robots are beating us.” The result was not eligible under any recognized standard. Handlers intervened, batteries were swapped mid-run, the course was corrected. None of that made the headlines.

I started looking for a site that tracked humanoid robot parity against human athletic records the way World Athletics tracks human records, with eligibility rules, sanctioning bodies, validation tiers, and honest disqualifications. I couldn't find one. The information existed in press releases, research papers, and scattered results pages, but nobody was maintaining a ledger that treated the question seriously.

Bioparity is that ledger. Every performance is tagged with its autonomy level, its sanctioning body, and an eligibility decision with a reason attached. Ineligible results stay on the record with their reasons documented. The parity meter currently reads zero percent, because under rigorous criteria that is the honest number today.

How it was built

My Navy role as Director of Process Improvement was the same shape as this project. The job was to go into a department, observe how work actually happened for several weeks, figure out what was broken in the process itself, and build a fix that held up after I left. I did it in emergency departments, labor and delivery wards, specialty clinics, and medical services across a hospital of more than a hundred clinicians.

Bioparity is the same work in a different domain. I watched how humanoid robotics results were being reported for several weeks, and saw a specific broken process. Results were being reported without any shared standard for what counted. So I built the infrastructure that applies the kind of rigor the sport governing bodies already apply to human records. A schema, a methodology, a test suite, a public audit trail.

The piece that made it possible for someone outside software to build a site like this is AI tooling. Sixty days ago I couldn't write a for loop. I learned enough syntax to be dangerous in a weekend, and then I spent nine weeks building. Not just Bioparity, but eight other applications across healthcare workflow, personal finance, and family life. Everything on this site was written by me in collaboration with Anthropic's Claude, reviewed line by line, tested, and shipped. The architecture decisions, the eligibility criteria, the methodology language, the decision to include the ineligible Beijing result on the record with its reason attached, those are mine. The code is something I directed.

What I'm looking for

I'm not looking for a job.

I'm looking for researchers, roboticists, sports scientists, and practitioners who care about the question this site is asking, and who want to improve the answer. People who would contribute research briefs, challenge the methodology, submit verified performances, or point me at harder problems worth building infrastructure around.

I'm also open to mentorship. I spent 25 years in environments where experienced people took time to teach younger people how to do the work. I'm past the age where I'm a young person, but I'm new to this world, and I'd like to spend the next decade of my working life building things that matter with people who know more than I do about where to point the tools.

If that's you, or you know someone, I'd like to hear from you.

Contact

The best way to reach me is hello@bioparity.io.

For contributions, corrections, or factual disputes, open an issue or pull request at github.com/bioparity/bioparity. Contribution guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md. The methodology is at /methodology.

Replies may take a week. This site is built in the margins of a nursing career.