Johnny McConkie

I’m a founder and software engineer in Provo, Utah, finishing a B.S. in Information Systems at BYU in December 2026.

I build products end to end and handle the business around them: selling to customers, raising money, and running operations. Right now I run BookKeeper AI and study how input data affects LLM classification accuracy.

Work

  • 2025 – now

    BookKeeper AI

    Founder & Engineer

    A bookkeeping platform serving three clients. An LLM-backed engine categorizes incoming business transactions, and I run the clients’ bookkeeping and payroll on top of it.

    Next.js, PostgreSQL, Railway

  • 2025 – 2026

    Voley

    Co-founder & Technical Lead

    Two-way SMS for independent insurance agencies, with an official API integration into HawkSoft. I owned the architecture, roadmap, A2P 10DLC compliance, and a team of five contract developers. Sold 30 agencies through cold outreach and demos, raised $42K from industry investors and BYU Miller Grants, and gave the keynote at Insurtech Utah 2025.

    Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Twilio

  • 2025 – 2026

    AttendEase

    Technical Co-founder

    Facial-recognition attendance for schools. I built the mobile app, web frontend, and school admin architecture, and contributed to the database design.

    Vite, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

  • Ongoing

    LLM evaluation research

    Directed study with Prof. Mark Keith, BYU

    A framework for measuring how the type and volume of input data affect LLM classification accuracy, benchmarked on business transactions against the IRS Schedule C taxonomy.

Experience

  • 2024 – now

    Big Star Concrete & Premium Surface Solutions

    Sales & Project Manager

    Designed an on-site estimating process that raised sales efficiency 25% and shortened the quote-to-close cycle. Built the CRM lead tracker and follow-up cadence.

  • 2023 – 2024

    Sunrun

    Residential Sales

    Closed $1.2M across 36 accounts in 10 months. Top 5 of 197 reps for eight straight weeks.

  • 2022 – 2023

    BYU Continuing Education

    Database Operations

    Built a SQL automation pipeline that cut a recurring two-week process to two days. It became standard practice.

Education

  • 2026

    Brigham Young University

    B.S. Information Systems, Marriott School of Business

    Minors in Entrepreneurship and Statistics. 3.7 major GPA. Crocker Innovation Fellow.

Other

  • Two-year service mission in Quito, Ecuador; led and trained 150+ missionaries
  • Conversational Spanish
  • BYU Sloan Speech Showcase finalist
  • Eagle Scout
  • Tools: TypeScript, Python, SQL, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Twilio, Railway, LLM integration and evaluation