Forward-deployed delivery and systems work

Customer-facing delivery backed by deep systems engineering.

I work across the full path from technical demo to production outcome: understand the customer, configure and deploy the product, set up SSO and integrations, troubleshoot the environment, and carry field feedback back into engineering.

Public systems work.

RefugeOS and Valkyrie are the most personal examples: built to learn the stack end to end and to stop accepting limited options as a permanent constraint.

RefugeOS

A Linux/system project rooted in first-principles learning: understand the boot path, the desktop, services, package boundaries, and the practical tradeoffs that shape a usable environment.

  • Motivation: learn every step of how the system worked instead of treating the OS as a black box.
  • Motivation: build options when existing choices felt constrained or over-prescribed.
  • Signal: persistence through low-level system behavior, packaging, services, and real desktop ergonomics.
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View Codeberg GitHub 
$ why RefugeOS?
> learn the whole stack
> reduce dependency on limited choices
> make the machine understandable
> build until the abstraction stops leaking

Valkyrie

Companion work around the Refuge ecosystem, focused on practical system interaction, desktop behavior, and the operator experience of making Linux feel intentional.

  • Explores how services, desktop controls, and workflow surfaces should cooperate.
  • Shows comfort debugging across boundaries instead of staying inside one framework.
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Public Code Habit

The Codeberg/GitHub presence is not just portfolio decoration. It reflects a bias toward building visible artifacts, keeping momentum, and learning through implementation.

  • Codeberg is the primary home for Refuge-related work.
  • GitHub remains useful for broader experiments, utilities, and public profile discovery.
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Forward-deployed product work.

These are customer- and workflow-shaped projects: delivery work that combines technical communication, implementation, deployment, integrations, and product engineering.

Aivato Forward Deployed Engineering

Customer-facing ownership from technical demos through deployment, configuration, SSO setup, integration troubleshooting, onboarding, and production handoff—plus the engineering work needed to close product gaps.

  • Run product demonstrations that connect technical capabilities to the customer’s actual workflow.
  • Deploy and configure solutions in customer environments, including SSO and surrounding integrations.
  • Troubleshoot adoption blockers and feed real field requirements into product and engineering decisions.
  • Build AI-agent tooling, safe tool execution, MCP/RAG workflows, compare reporting, QA, PDF-to-BOM, parts/cost data, exports, and wire tracing.
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DeltaManager

A harness comparison tool for analyzing engineering changes, compare reports, 3DXML parsing, and CATIA-assisted workflows.

  • Turns harness change comparison into a more inspectable workflow.
  • Combines domain-specific parsing with practical reporting and automation.
  • Fits the larger theme: reduce manual review friction and make engineering differences easier to reason about.
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AI-Assisted Ansible / AWX / Terraform

AI-assisted development for Ansible playbooks, AWX workflows, and Terraform infrastructure as code, backed by automation platform experience with roles, inventories, credentials, job templates, surveys, and RBAC.

  • Use AI to author, review, and troubleshoot automation code and deployment workflows.
  • Connects automation to monitoring, incident response, and operator workflows.
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SRE Platform Tools

Automation frameworks, Vault-backed credential rotation, Oracle installation automation, AWS SFTP, containerized service migrations, and monitoring-triggered remediation.

  • Pattern: turn repeatable operational burden into controlled software.
  • Pattern: make the safe path the easy path for teams operating production systems.
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Local product builds.

These are larger local projects from my workspace: developer tools, job-search automation, desktop applications, Android bridge work, and session/control-plane infrastructure.

Voodoo / valk-agent

A coding-agent runtime built around a controlled tool loop, workspace indexing, persistent task state, human review paths, and planner/executor routing.

  • Supports local OpenAI-compatible model routers such as llama-server, with optional planner/executor split.
  • Builds and reuses a lexical workspace index instead of dragging full transcripts forever.
  • Implements bounded tools, review queues, durable memory, stuck detection, orchestration, and an executor-owned plan loop.
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$ valk-agent run --task "ship the change"
> plan
> bounded tools
> human review when needed
> finish only when the plan is done

Product and platform builds.

These projects show the other side of the work: practical business software, domain-specific engineering tools, and platform services that move from idea to usable workflow.

Odin CMDB

A Go-based configuration-management database with server, agent, and key-generation components for host inventory and tagged system metadata.

  • Agent collects host identity, hostname, memory, CPU count, OS/release data, and network interfaces.
  • Server exposes HTTP endpoints for registration, record updates, API keys, and plugin-backed storage.
  • Keygen utility provisions team API keys against the CMDB service.
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HarnessStudio

A cross-platform harness engineering workbench built around a neutral harness model, migration adapters, validation, API surfaces, and an Avalonia desktop UI.

  • Moves beyond a converter by routing through core domain models, schema conformance, round-trip tests, and real sample fidelity.
  • Includes LDorado/XD migration work, schematic rendering, packaging, and pilot-release workflows.
  • Uses .NET/Avalonia to deliver the “newer WPF, but cross-platform” desktop experience.
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VeriHome

An inspection-operations SaaS MVP for home inspection companies, focused first on booking, scheduling, availability, CRM/referrals, and admin operations.

  • Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, FullCalendar, Prisma, SQLite locally, and PostgreSQL deployment schema.
  • Public booking flow at `/book` and admin operations under `/admin`.
  • Stripe signup billing, email delivery, seeded data, and mock service boundaries for calendar, payment, notifications, travel time, and geocoding.
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RapidRFQ

A local-first RFQ intake and estimator workspace for machine shops, built to accept STEP files and PDF drawings, analyze job readiness, and support quote workflow decisions.

  • .NET 8 Web API, React/Vite/TypeScript frontend, SQLite database, and local upload storage.
  • Estimator-focused RFQ inbox/detail workflow with local users, roles, audit trail, backups, and shop settings.
  • Backend tests cover quote math, STEP parsing, document extraction, supplier follow-up timing, portal tokens, similar-job scoring, and quote consolidation.
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Need customer-facing engineering that stays deeply technical?

I’m available for Forward Deployed Engineer, customer engineering, solutions engineering, and technical implementation work that needs ownership from demo through deployment.

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