About

I'm Brandon Pelotto, Software Architect, occasional "Wizard", and someone who took a very scenic route to get here.

My degree is in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I took a hardware job out of school, got pulled into a software project as one of the few technical people around at the time, and slowly never looked back. I was the second software engineer at the company I work for now and have since grown into an architecture role overseeing the integration between physical hardware products and SaaS systems, which is exactly as interesting and as chaotic as it sounds.

Before the corporate world, I grew up rural. Worked at local co-ops and feed stores through school. My dad was a network architect. He took one of the first accredited computer science classes at LSU, served in the national guard, worked for BellSouth and AT&T. He wired me early with an engineering mindset, and it never fully left.

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The AI wave has me genuinely excited for the first time in a while, and slightly apprehensive too, but the kind of apprehensive that makes you lean in rather than back away. This blog is my way of jumping in feet first: building things, breaking things, and documenting the wreckage.

The name Succeeded With Errors comes from a build state every developer has seen. The build finishes. It logs errors. It's not ideal, and you still have to go fix things. But it moved forward, and sometimes that's exactly what you need.

That's the philosophy here. Perfection isn't the goal. Learning is. I'll write about the wins, the stumbles, the systems I'd redesign from scratch, and whatever falls out of my experiments with AI and agentic tooling: the good and the bad.

If that sounds worth following, stick around.