Welcome!

This is my professional engineering portfolio and sandbox for experimentation across modern full-stack development, distributed architecture and platform-as-code automation. Now, I am using a custom-built harness to build my stack using locally hosted models with some governance from frontier models.

AI is a tool. Let's build great things with it in a collaborative way. Make sure human artists and creators are empowered and paid for their work. Let's build a sustainable ecosystem where the tools enable us and don't worsen the human problems of climate change, poverty and resource scarcity.

The internet was built on open source standards and protocols and we managed to run power plants on Linux. We can do Dijkstra proud and avoid the dystopian futures being sold to us.

About This Site

This site is the culmination of my engineering discipline. It is built to demonstrate end-to-end craft:

1. Modern Frontend Architecture: Built in React and Next.js with TypeScript, fluid modular SCSS, semantic HTML5, and fully responsive layouts.
2. Microservice Backend: Polyglot services running in isolated Docker containers with Node.js Express (authentication, profiles, communication) and Python Flask (mathematical computing, geospatial algorithms).
3. Platform & Infrastructure as Code: Fully provisioned using Terraform, Docker Compose, systemd process supervision, and Apache reverse-proxy routing with Let's Encrypt TLS.
4. Automated CI/CD: Zero-downtime rolling container deployments orchestrated over SSH and Tailscale tunnels via Bitbucket Pipelines.
5. Agentically Developed: Ollama and a custom harness orchestrated by subscriptions. Not a single token was spent in the manufacture of any of my projects. It's amazing what you can do with 20 bucks and a decent computer. That has always been true. If my family of coal miners taught me anything, it's: "don't buy your tools from the company store."

Technical Philosophy

• AI responsibility and toolchain agnosticism: Don't steal creative works. Don't destroy the environment. Run locally hosted open weights and build AI as public good.
• Resilience & Idempotency: System designs that self-heal, reconfigure on boot, and survive failures.
• Autonomous & Agentic Workflows: Establishing rigorous dark factory patterns using local LLMs, strict linter checks and contextual specs to multiply developer velocity.