CV / Resume

Summary

Full stack engineer, musician and birdwatcher based in Lewiston, ME.

Experience

Systems Analyst (DevSecOps) — Bates College (2024–Present)

• Maintenance and modernization of legacy systems; bespoke Ansible extensions, roles, and plugins
• Degree audit orchestration tooling in Haskell + Python (QuickCheck, Cabal, FPM, autodevops)
• Event management system overhaul (C#, Go, Ansible)
• Apache Solr adoption for indexing and search
• ACME-first certificate management, SAML integrations, KeePassXC declarative workflows
• CI/CD pipelines: GitLab AutoDevOps, OpenTofu, RKE2 + Rancher

Computer Vision Software Engineer — Macaulay Library (2018–2022)

• Developed & launched Merlin Sound ID & The Machine Learning Blog
• Fine-grained ML annotation tools for audio classification
• Internal classification and model evaluation web APIs
• Stack: Python (TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas), Flask, TypeScript, Docker, WebAssembly

Fabrication Lab Manager — Cornell CALS (2021–2022)

• Rapid fabrication curricula for Landscape Architecture students and faculty
• OpenSCAD, Fusion 360, C++ tiler development

Ventures

Tinyland.dev, Inc (2024–Present)

Semiautonomous infrastructure maintenance platform for higher ed. C corporation, self-funded.

• 5 bespoke SLMs, 100+ autonomous tools
• SvelteKit 5 CMS with Svelte 5 runes, TypeScript, Vite
• K8s native — Talos OS, Civo cloud, RKE2 + Rancher
• i18n — 6 languages via Paraglide.js
• Chapel, Python, Go, Kubernetes (Liqo), Apache Solr

xoxd.ai (2025–Present)

Provably Autonomous Recursive Lattice (PARL) design — orchestrating massively parallel, provable agent infrastructure. 130+ agents, 5 models.

• Marolex — K8s-native multicloud harness (Chapel + Go, Liqo topology)
• Huskycat — Deterministic verification middleware (multithreaded githook SLM)
• Outbot — Repo management agent (zone-wise git summaries, conflict resolution)
• FuzzyBot — Chat TUI with native IDE integration (Chapel + Go)

Built on: Liqo, RKE2, CoreDNS, MetalLB, Apache Solr, pgvector, vLLM, LangGraph. Models: 2 custom mxbai embeddings, custom functiongemma SLM, Qwen v3, GLM 4.7.

Columbari.us LLC (2017–2021)

Independent contractor in GIS & ML. Clients included National Park Service, Foundation for Healthy Communities, GPRED, Northern Border Regional Commission.

FOSS Contributions

Rocky Enterprise Linux Foundation, Liqo (CERN), Apache Solr, Caddy, libdns, Skeleton UI, Klipper, KeePassXC, SearXNG, BrainFlow, EyeTrackVR, and more.

Community

• First Fellow — D&M Makerspace at Plymouth State University (2017–2020)
• Taught Advanced GIS Programming & Intro to Electromechanics at PSU
• Membership Chair & 3D Printing Captain — Ithaca Generator (2020–2022)
• COVID-19 PPE manufacturing coordination across New England makerspaces

Photography

Commercial photography business — paid my way through my undergraduate degree.

• Cut my teeth professionally with world-renowned aerial photographer Alex MacLean and Mike Nyman Wedding Photography, then launched J.S. Event Photography
• Wrote and taught the youth photography curriculum at Joppa Flats and Drumlin Farm Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuaries — programs still going strong
• Work featured at Celebrate Newton, Newton Public Library, Pease Public Library, Newtonville Cinema, Newton Camera Club, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, and in the Newton Tab
• Did my own printing on a heavily modified inkjet printer. Completely burnt out from photography by end of 2017, sold all gear by end of college

Music & Creative

• 20+ years of guitar — currently play a custom 9-string electric made in NH and a 12-string acoustic
• 25+ years of piano/organ — primarily on a rotary Yamaha organ these days

“If there were no computers I’d probably be a baker, a minstrel or a bard.”

Hospitality

• Evening bartender & event organizer at Modern Alchemy Game Bar in Ithaca — organized monthly Goth Nights, art shows & private events
• Bartender at The Downstairs Listening Room & Tavern and The Watershed in New York
• Casual bagel baker at Tandem Bagel Co in Northampton, MA (Spring 2024)

Current Stack

• Web: SvelteKit, Svelte 5 runes, TypeScript, Vite (rolldown)
• HPC: Chapel, Haskell
• Infrastructure: Ansible, GitLab CI, Kubernetes (RKE2, Liqo), OpenTofu
• Learning: Nix, Rust SIMD