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about

cloud engineer now building ai infrastructure.
operating from cambridge, ma.

/01 background

Denison University. BA Computer Science and BA Global Commerce, Middle East / North Africa concentration.

Started at Maven Wave as a Cloud Analyst. Maven Wave and Eviden were both acquired by Atos, where I'm now a Cloud Operations Engineer responsible for Azure infrastructure for enterprise clients. Expanding focus into AI agent systems and infrastructure.

/02 what i care about

I focus on infrastructure for local-first computing and personal ownership. The pattern I keep coming back to: software that structurally cannot betray its users beats software that promises it won't.

Two areas I'm working on: AI tools to augment thinking, not capture it, and verifiable crypto rails where exit is cheaper than voice.

Chris Dixon's frame is one I find useful: there's a casino side of crypto (speculation and trading) and a computer side (protocols, ownership, infrastructure). I am interested in the computer side.

/03 interests

Multi-agent architectures and inter-agent protocols. Context engineering for long-running agents. Self-hosted LLM experiments. Agent-first company patterns. Bitcoin and self-sovereign infrastructure.

/04 resume