AI systems architect and machine learning engineer. More than fifteen years designing secure, large-scale data systems for government and enterprise clients, including a classified project for the United States Government and systems that process billions of records.
Since February 2026, building with Claude and other AI models every day:
Campaign Brain: 84 self-hosted services, ready for production. They give AI agents a memory, plan and run their work, and gather public information.
MyFinalWishes (mywishes.com): digital estate planning, shipped on the SysForge platform.
A 6502 chip and an NES: simulated transistor by transistor, at tinymachines.ai.
TerraPulse: an open platform for measured climate and earth-science data.
Every working session, and what it cost, is on the public record.
Core strengths
Full stack
Software is the primary competency. Curiosity has carried the work across the full spectrum of technology, from physics to generative AI.
Always learning
One is always a student. That mantra is the reason for a standing habit of evaluating new languages and platforms.
Inventor
Turning generative AI into a problem solver, and developing novel tools that interface with the real world.
Experience
2024 to present
Founder and AI Systems ArchitectSysForge.ai
AI systems and development firm. Since 2026 the work has centred on Campaign Brain, a production-ready platform built on the SysForge fabric, on products shipped through it, and on the self-hosted infrastructure under both.
Campaign Brain, the platform
Built Campaign Brain, a production-ready platform on the SysForge fabric: 84 Python services and about 3,390 documented endpoints, each read endpoint also an MCP tool. Over 20,000 commits of his own since February 2026, AI pair-programmed, chores excluded.
Designed a journaled state kernel for agents: five classical primitives behind one loop, with the search strategy as configuration. Every change goes to an append-only journal, so a crashed run replays to its exact next step.
Merged three in-house workflow engines into one: YAML graphs that can wait days at an approval gate and resume exactly once. Its planner turns two plain sentences into a graph checked against the live service catalog, and nothing runs until a person clicks Run.
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Campaign Brain, the platform
Built the service mesh underneath: each service announces a card describing itself, peers find each other by broadcast, membership expires by TTL so a dead node ages out, and one gateway calls services by name.
Built the platform's intelligence crawler: an async jobs API running YAML pipelines (crawl, archives, screenshots, transcripts, vector search) on a self-built cluster of workers. Its largest measured run processed about 950 GB in nine days.
Disaster recovery
Rehearsed a from-nothing rebuild on a second host: fresh secrets, 63 empty databases, 47 storage buckets, every service in dependency order. 67 of 93 units started clean, the other 26 became tickets, and the run became the first fresh-host runbook.
Designed a whole-server encrypted offsite backup that fits a nightly window, refuses to run if key material would leave the building, and cannot erase its own history. Restored a 235 MB database from backup in 33 seconds with no count mismatches.
Designed ZFS replication for an embedded database and its files, with a failover guard that never promotes a lagging standby.
MyFinalWishes, shipped through SysForge
Built MyFinalWishes, a digital estate-planning platform, as its only engineer: a prototype rebuilt as one TypeScript application (TanStack Start, React 19, SQLite with Drizzle), with 459 commits and 68 migrations from July to September 2026.
Designed per-user envelope encryption: AES-256-GCM under a per-user key wrapped by a master key held outside the database, each value bound to its user, table and column, and files sealed in 64 KiB chunks.
Took it to production with a replicated standby, nightly verified off-site backups and a health check that proves sign-in, decryption and mail delivery. About 1,500 unit and end-to-end tests gate every change.
Infrastructure
Run more than 50 hostnames on owned hardware with nginx, systemd, certbot and self-hosted BIND DNS, version-controlled units and encrypted secrets. No cloud host.
Research and open sourcetinymachines.ai, TerraPulse, tinychase
Chips simulated from die photographs, an open climate and geophysical data platform, and a cyclone model that runs in the browser, all built in public.
tinymachines.ai
Designed and shipped tinymachines.ai in six weeks (763 commits, August to October 2026): four projects on Next.js 16, FastAPI and Rust/WebAssembly, an API spoken as REST and MCP, documentation in English and Japanese, and 42 Playwright specs on the live site.
Built a switch-level MOS 6502 simulator in Rust and WebAssembly on halfphi, an MIT-licensed library: 1,725 nodes and 3,510 switches, matching visual6502 bit for bit across a 3,000 half-cycle trace. Faster engines derived from it are held to it at the pins, up to a GPU kernel stepping 128,000 machines at once.
Extended the method to the NES: switch-level Ricoh 2A03 and 2C02 chips, an NTSC signal and CRT model, and seven cartridge board types, passing blargg's CPU, timing, sprite-hit and APU test ROMs. More than 830 commits in seven weeks.
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tinymachines.ai
Built a bench that holds the model to an unmodified NES under identical inputs: an inline pad bridge counting the console's latch and clock pulses in hardware, and a Raspberry Pi driving reset, power and the oscilloscope.
TerraPulse, architect and builder
Architected and built TerraPulse, a measured-data climate and geophysical platform: 80 indexes holding 14.2M records from 183 upstream datasets (USGS, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA and others) on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, DuckDB and Parquet.
Shipped its public Model Context Protocol server: 11 read-only tools over the indexes, research workspaces and a 1,353-node knowledge graph, connected to claude.ai as a custom connector.
tinychase, engineered
Engineered tinychase.com in nine days (128 commits): an installable PWA where DuckDB-WASM reads static Parquet and a tinygrad cyclone transformer runs in the browser on WebGPU, within 0.0000064 kt of the Python reference.
bradley.io
Run bradley.io on owned hardware: live dashboards fed by real instruments, a public record of every AI working session and its cost, and a staged deploy with automatic rollback behind more than 400 releases since February 2026.
Enterprise-grade, high-volume messaging platform with strict uptime and compliance requirements.
Architected a high-availability messaging platform handling millions of messages at 99.9% uptime, using AI for anomaly detection and delivery optimization.
Developed the RESTful API layer in FastAPI, integrating multiple carriers (Twilio, Bandwidth, Kaleyra, Telnyx) with automated failover.
Built a real-time analytics backend with AI-driven pattern recognition, aggregating carrier statistics through AWS QuickSight.
PythonFastAPIDynamoDBLambdaCloudWatchQuickSight
2018 to 2022Grand Rapids, MI
Architect and DeveloperConservativeConnector, LLC
Large-scale email data management systems processing billions of messages and more than 100 million contact records.
Designed high-volume data infrastructure on AWS, with ML-driven data quality scoring and deduplication.
Integrated and normalized 4.9 billion data points for ML model training, relationship discovery, and predictive analytics.
Built multi-channel ingestion pipelines with ETL processes shipping to Snowflake, incorporating automated anomaly detection.
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Ensured GDPR and CAN-SPAM compliance across all data processing through automated policy enforcement.
PythonAWSSnowflakePostgreSQLML pipelinesETL
2014 to 2018Boca Raton, FL
Senior ArchitectTransUnion, TruLookup Division
Investigative intelligence platform providing insight on people, assets, and relationships from more than 10,000 data sources. Served law enforcement, government agencies, and legal clients.
Lead developer on a classified project with the United States Government, covering secure system architecture and federal compliance.
Architected distributed infrastructure processing billions of records and millions of queries a day at better than 99.9% uptime.
Built machine learning models for entity resolution, relationship mapping, and data segmentation with the data science team.
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Implemented ML-driven search algorithms connecting disparate data sources to reveal hidden relationships between individuals, businesses, assets, and locations.
Led a team of five developers in search algorithm optimization, performance tuning, and ML model integration.
Lead developer on a classified project with the United States Government (TransUnion TruLookup, 2014 to 2018).
Extensive experience in secure environments handling sensitive investigative and personal data for law enforcement and federal agencies.
Working knowledge of data protection protocols, federal compliance frameworks, FISMA, and security practice.
Expertise
AI and machine learning
Claude and the Anthropic APIModel Context Protocol (MCP)Agent state and orchestrationOpenAI APIAgentic frameworksPrompt engineeringRAG pipelinesVector databasesHugging FaceEntity resolutionRelationship mappingRecommendation enginesStatistical modelingscikit-learnWeka
Languages
PythonBashSQLC# and .NETRustC and C++JavaJavaScript and TypeScript
Cloud and infrastructure
AWSLinux administrationDockerDistributed systemsHigh-availability designLoad balancingDisaster recoveryWireGuard and OpenWrtZFSnginx, systemd and BIND
Data and search
SnowflakePostgreSQLMySQLSQL ServerDynamoDBRedisElasticsearchApache SolrETL pipelinesHadoop and HiveVector embeddingsSQLiteDuckDB and ParquetPostGIS
Seventeen years before 2014, from co-founding a chat software company in 1997 through payments, healthcare, and search. One line each, as the PDF gives them.
2012 to 2014Senior Architect, nextSource / PeopleTicker
2011 to 2012Application Developer, nextSource
2009 to 2011Senior Developer, Linx Communications, Inc.
2008Software Development and System Design, J. Lack Consulting
2008Senior Developer, EnablePay, Inc.
2007 to 2008Senior Developer, AmeriCorp, Inc.
2005 to 2007Senior Developer, Evo Merchant Services, Inc.
2004 to 2005Senior Developer, Direct Insite, Inc.
2002 to 2004Senior Developer, CCSI
1997 to 2002Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, PipeLive, LLC
Every earlier role in full
2012 to 2014Manhattan, NY
Senior ArchitectnextSource / PeopleTicker
Talent acquisition automation. PeopleTicker was a start-up spun out of nextSource.
Senior data engineer on a global, real-time labor-rate calculator: designed the data structures and systems for search-engine data acquisition, processing, and retrieval.
Designed and developed the rate search engine and its algorithms, implemented in Java with Weka and other statistical packages.
JavaWekaApache SolrAWS EC2RDS
2011 to 2012Manhattan, NY
Application DevelopernextSource
Developer on a talent acquisition management system for a provider of temporary labor to large corporations, including Capital One, Caterpillar, and BASF. Human resources teams used it to track sourcing, hiring, and invoicing.
PHPOracleJavaScript
2009 to 2011Hauppauge, NY
Senior DeveloperLinx Communications, Inc.
Digital marketing.
Designed and coded e-commerce sites, including a packing algorithm that fits any number of packages into boxes of several sizes.
Integrated Magento with an ERP system through a custom bridge to the Magento API, and maintained all code and production servers.
MagentoTwitter APIGoogle Analytics
2008East Hampton, NY
Software Development and System DesignJ. Lack Consulting
Maintained production e-commerce servers, ran daily email marketing sends, and analyzed response. Managed an e-commerce integration project for a wine retailer end to end.
Designed a secure network for a 120-bed healthcare facility, built to meet HIPAA requirements and protect patient data.
2008Mineola, NY
Senior DeveloperEnablePay, Inc.
Credit card processing start-up.
Created a merchant transaction management system, supervising other developers and ensuring daily card transactions cleared the banking system.
Developed a web-based merchant application in PHP, integrated with SugarCRM over SOAP.
2007 to 2008Syosset, NY
Senior DeveloperAmeriCorp, Inc.
Debt consolidation.
Developed the financial backend of an enterprise compensation management system: it receives and disburses client funds to escrow accounts and generates outbound messages from account status.
Planned a 500-seat call center installation on Microsoft CRM and designed an automated EFT scheduling system for daily ACH processing.
Designed and implemented a SOAP API for business partners to reach the back-end processing system.
2005 to 2007Melville, NY
Senior DeveloperEvo Merchant Services, Inc.
Credit card processor.
Developed a multi-user credit card risk management system used by employees and external partners, which reduced company losses by detecting fraudulent card activity.
Created file processors to load card transaction data from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
Developed an in-house system for managing more than 100,000 merchants, from sales through onboarding.
2004 to 2005Hauppauge, NY
Senior DeveloperDirect Insite, Inc.
Invoicing services for IBM.
Designed a management console for a just-in-time processing system that rendered XML datasets with XSLT.
Developed a C# framework giving programmers a common interface for dynamic data processing modules, and an application processing real-time financial feeds from IBM Japan.
C#.NETSQL Server
2002 to 2004Hauppauge, NY
Senior DeveloperCCSI
Technology contractor.
Developed a case management system for the Suffolk County District Attorney, ingesting more than 100,000 court indictments and dispositions.
Built a HIPAA-compliant medical permissions program for Nassau University Medical Center, converting existing data into a browser-based application.
Designed modules for a browser-based knowledge system for school districts.
C#.NETOracle
1997 to 2002Melville, NY
Chief Technology Officer and co-founderPipeLive, LLC
Real-time chat and collaboration software, sold as a service.
Co-founded the company and designed and developed a modular suite of real-time collaboration software.
Received 12 industry awards, including PC Magazine's Winner's Circle and the TMC Labs Innovation Award.
Negotiated a four-year, $2M reseller agreement with Siemens AG distributing Web Interaction Center worldwide, and managed integration with Siemens Switzerland's call center product line.
Worked on an early AI-based chat system with Banter, Inc. for LaSalle Bank.
Open source and projects
bradley.io AI pilot: A public record of AI-augmented development: every working session, the models used, and what it cost.
Sovereign: An assembly-like agentic programming language designed for self-improving AI systems.
Gene Pool: A curated archive and analysis of AI coding agent system prompts across frontier models.
ARI: An AWS resource inventory tool.
ESP32 AI Edge: Edge computing and embedded inference on ESP32 mesh networks.
Rust for Haters: Systems programming deep-dives.
Education
Advanced Object-Oriented Programming, Columbia University
Computer Science coursework, Plymouth State College