// systems architect + software engineer + security engineer
22+ years building distributed systems, security platforms, and the tooling that keeps critical infrastructure running.
My career spans the U.S. Army, IBM, and nearly 15 years at GoDaddy, with roles in signal operations, systems administration, systems security administration, networking, site reliability engineering, software engineering, and security engineering. The constant was designing and operating complex production-critical systems at scale, then building the tooling and guardrails that made them safer, more resilient, and easier to run.
The projects below reflect that mix: security that's structural, not bolted on, infrastructure that earns its uptime, and agentic systems that are governed instead of improvised.
// core disciplines
// languages / ecosystems
Source-first programming language and runtime contract. Explicit effects, capability-typed authority, supervised actors, post-quantum-aware policy, and runtime evidence — by design.
A self-hosted engineering shop staffed by AI engineers. Hired, onboarded and handed issues like anyone else, and contained like nothing else: trust-tiered network, encryption on every hop, ephemeral sandboxed runs.
Secure-by-default BEAM-native AI workspace. LiveView dashboard, multi-backend chat, plug extensions, and BeamAgent-backed sessions.
BEAM-native SDKs for multi-backend agents. Unified sessions, routing, policy, memory, audit, and capability parity across runtimes.
Optimization-driven local inference on tiny VRAM. Built to fit 120B to 160B-class models onto 8GB hardware without quantizing away fidelity.
Host-local EDR/DLP with immediate enforcement. Governs actions, constrains execution, inspects risky content, and records what happened.