About
I am a systems and platform engineer. Most of my work lives below the parts of AI that get talked about: Linux, C++, Rust, telemetry, operational debugging, and the unglamorous job of keeping large host fleets boring while everything above them changes weekly.
I think the layer I work on is underrated as a vantage point. You learn how systems actually fail, how capacity really gets built, and how much of AI progress is downstream of supply chains and reliability budgets. That view leaks into how I read industries, which is most of what I write about.
Away from the editor I keep a home lab, mostly so I have somewhere to be wrong cheaply and in writing. The build log is where that lives.
- Day work - production reliability and operational debugging for AI infrastructure.
- Olive - a private portfolio cockpit with a public project page built from demo-seed screenshots.
- Home lab - upcoming work in progress around sensors, automation, and reliability.
- Writing - paused publicly until essays are edited enough to publish.
Capital cycles in semis / deterministic systems / property testing / embodied and physical AI / industrial policy / the economics of reliability / small sharp tools.