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I am an AI Systems Architect focused on bare-metal infrastructure, constrained hardware optimization, and edge-deployed intelligence. 
After 14 years of building and running traditional businesses, I transitioned into systems engineering with a specific focus on Local LLM Orchestration and Deterministic Architectures. I don't build API wrappers; I build the plumbing that makes complex models run reliably in air-gapped, zero-trust environments. 
### What I Build My current primary focus is Project Apollo—a localized, multi-agent AI framework designed to run entirely on consumer-grade hardware (AMD/ROCm).

• VRAM Engineering: Designing strict memory-management protocols to hot-swap 30B+ MoE models within a strict 16GB ceiling.
• Cascading Inference Routers: Building "Three-Mind" architectural logic (0.6B Gatekeeper -> 8B Thinker -> 30B Architect) to optimize inference cost and latency.
• Air-Gapped RAG Pipelines: Developing automated "Librarian" scripts to chunk, hash, and ingest WORM data into local vector databases for completely private, semantic retrieval. 
### My Engineering Philosophy
• Architecture over Syntax: I leverage AI to generate syntax while I provide the system design, constraints, and business logic.
• Pragmatism over Hype: I focus on the "Post-Bubble" reality of AI—reducing runaway cloud compute costs by replacing insecure API dependencies with optimized, sovereign, open-weight models.
• Red Team Thinking: Designing for zero-trust, air-gapped security rather than relying on external corporate guardrails. 
### Current Tech Stack
• Hardware: AMD RDNA 4 (RX 9070 XT), evaluating RISC-V / Tenstorrent Scale-Out architectures.
• Software: Ubuntu, Native ROCm, PyTorch, vLLM, WORM Databases (ChromaDB), Python. 
### Let's Connect I'm actively seeking roles in Aerospace, Defense, Advanced Manufacturing, or infrastructure teams where bare-metal execution and air-gapped security are baseline requirements, not afterthoughts. 
* Based in Indianapolis, IN.
• Open to Hybrid/On-Site roles and roles requiring clearance. ``