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TL;DR
Everything you need to know about this site and the person behind it — in under 2 minutes.
Who
Chief Architect, AI Engineering
20+ years in tech. Specializing in agentic AI, LLM orchestration, MCP, and multi-cloud architecture across GCP, AWS, Azure, and Red Hat. Primary model: Anthropic Claude. Based on the Blue Planet.
What I Believe
14 Beliefs, Held Firmly
01Humanity is the only project worth being part of
02Spacetime is the most radical idea in the history of thought
03Complexity is a design failure, not sophistication
04Agentic AI is a paradigm shift, not a better chatbot
05The tool you use shapes the thoughts you can think
On the Road
45 States, 20 Years
Route 66 end-to-end. Utah Mighty Five. Kennedy Space Center launch. Lake Superior at dawn. Grand Canyon sunrise. Five states still waiting.
The Universe
Cosmos as Perspective
✦Observable universe: 2 trillion galaxies
✦Every heavy element in your body: forged in a star
✦The Fermi Paradox keeps me up at night
✦Europa and Enceladus may not be alone
✦JWST is rewriting the early universe
Career Arc
20 Years, One Direction
2004Infrastructure engineering — learning how systems fail
2009First technical leadership role
2012AlexNet — deep learning arrives, paying attention
2018Full pivot to AI/ML engineering
2023Chief Architect, AI Engineering
2026Agentic frontier — healthcare AI at scale
What I Use
The Actual Stack
No affiliate links. Tools that earn their place daily.
Claude
MCP
LangGraph
GCP
AWS
Azure
Python
TypeScript
Docker
Kubernetes
VS Code
Obsidian
arXiv
IEEE Xplore
MacBook M-Series
Writing — The Short Versions
What's Worth Reading
Demo vs ProductionA demo at 90% is impressive. A production system at 90% is broken. The gap is wider than anyone admits in a sales meeting.
Agentic AIThe unit of work has moved from the query to the goal. Organizations that miss this distinction will build chatbots with extra steps.
Evaluation FirstTeams spend 80% on model selection and 5% on eval. This is backwards. Build evals first. Run them continuously.
Everything on This Site
27 Pages — Pick Your Path