Staff Software Architect & AI Automation Engineer — 13+ years shipping RAG systems, event-driven Azure microservices, and automation pipelines that the people who inherit them can actually run.
Based in Greenville, SC. Looking for Staff Software Architect · AI Automation Engineer · Staff/Principal AI Engineer · Solutions Architect · Platform/Automation Engineer roles — Greenville-remote or US-remote, W2 preferred, contract-to-hire OK.
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Proof, not promises. Every number below is from a real engagement; client identities stay out of it.
- AI Governance Gateway — sole architect. Five model vendors (Azure AI, Anthropic, OpenAI/Codex, Cursor, Grok, Gemini) behind one policy-enforced, OpenAI-compatible API: per-project USD spend caps, multi-unit rate limiting, HMAC-signed hash-chained audit trail, no API keys in the path. Three product teams migrated onto it; their credentials retired.
- AI Payroll Processor — co-lead. 20 microservices, four human-approved phases, 585 test modules, Terraform/Helm/GitOps on private AKS. Architecture production-ready at day 45; a junior dev trained in parallel now owns it.
- Identity Governance as Code — sole author. Two control planes reconciling tenant state from Git: a kopf operator with fully secretless multi-tenant auth and LLM-drafted PRs, and an IdP governance platform managing 40 resource kinds via six addressing patterns, human-gated destructive drift, point-in-time reversion.
- Multi-System Ticket Relay — sole author. N-way sync with no privileged hub: version vectors, echo suppression, a conflict engine that fails to manual hold. 653 tests, 93% coverage, import-linter-enforced pure domain, property/mutation/chaos-tested convergence.
- Technical Report Generation Platform — lead. Instrument data → standards-aware deliverables: event-driven ingestion, multi-vendor parsers, deterministic analysis + LLM review, SAML 2.0 SSO, deploys that prove they rolled out.
- Self-Hosted RAG Chatbot — Mistral-7B, FAISS, vLLM, Docker. Zero external dependencies, shipped in 30 days.
- GodFocus Push Notifications — TDD Web Push system. 159/159 tests, 85.84% coverage, 5 billable hours.
Underneath: secretless DevSecOps (OIDC workload identity across 20 CI workflows in 9 repos; SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, SBOM, keyless signing, policy admission), five formal architecture document sets, identity-governance advisory for a SOX-regulated enterprise, and the Security-First Scrum framework.
All 17 case studies → /work
| Package | What it is | Links |
|---|---|---|
| claudeloop | Onion-architected autonomous Claude Code session runner. Never blocks on a human; tells an exhausted rate-limit window apart from exhausted credits and resumes across usage windows. | PyPI · repo |
| codexloop · cursorloop · agyloop | The same runner, three more engines — OpenAI Codex, Cursor Agent, Google Antigravity/Gemini. Same contract, different vendor. | codexloop · cursorloop · agyloop |
| vibey | Queue-based, six-phase conductor for autonomous software delivery on top of the *loop runners: spec interview → design pass → build → review → deploy. PostgreSQL-backed. |
PyPI · repo |
| vibey-bootstrap | Formerly azure-bootstrap. The Azure Functions cross-cutting layer, solved once — config ↔ App Insights bootstrap cycle, structured logging, Service Bus plumbing, scaffold CLI. Used across 17+ Azure Functions repos. | PyPI · repo |
| vibey-skills | Formerly vibe-engineering-skills. Claude Code plugin marketplace: 18 plugins, 71 Agent Skills across security, cloud, DevSecOps, AI/ML, architecture, QA. Every claim cites its source. | PyPI · repo |
| clippy-pet | An animated paperclip pet for ChatGPT desktop and Codex CLI. Because not everything has to be serious. | repo |
More → /open-source
"The AI is a commodity. The knowledge is the competitive asset."
Novice to Navigator: Your Guide to AI Chatbots for Business — plain-English, numerate, no hype. How RAG actually works, what makes chatbots succeed or fail, and how to decide whether your business is ready. The first edition's 33 chapters are free to read; the second edition is in development.
- 📖 Read the first edition free
- ✅ 15-factor Chatbot Readiness Quiz — four pillars, ~30 minutes, before you sign a contract
- 🔔 Get notified when the second edition ships
Also in development: Engineering Influence — see /books.
Latest posts
- Fable 5, Mythos 5, and a 19-Day Pause: What 'Mythos-Class' Means for Your RAG Budget — Aug 14, 2026
- Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026: What Actually Changes for Azure Architects — Aug 12, 2026
- MCP Became the REST of Agents. Here's How I'd Expose a Legacy System to One Safely. — Aug 10, 2026
- Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems for $2,000. ChatGPT Hit 1 Billion Users. Neither Changes the Advice I Give Clients. — Aug 5, 2026
Written-first, and the handoff is the deliverable. I document as I build for the same reason a RAG pipeline cites its sources: an auditable trail beats a confident guess six months later. That's why the AI Payroll Processor transferred to a junior dev in 45 days instead of becoming someone's permanent second job.
- Depth on the details that matter — I find the one row that contradicts the other nine hundred instead of averaging it away
- Onion Architecture and TDD by default — 159/159 tests and 85.84% coverage on the GodFocus push system, in 5 billable hours
- Cross-cutting concerns solved once —
vibey-bootstrapis the config/logging/Service Bus layer factored out of 17+ Azure Functions repos - Process engineering alongside the code — Epics → Features → Stories decomposition, so the work stays legible to the people funding it
- Senior Azure & AI Development Engineer, The Vizius Group, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Available September 2026.
- Volunteer software architect for a nonprofit AI apologetics chat platform since Apr 2026 — the AI→human live-chat relay is written up at /work/project-excite-relay.
- Short consulting engagements are still possible → book a call
- B.A. Computer Science, Skidmore College (2012) · Certified ScrumMaster (2021)
Stack at a glance
- Languages: Python · TypeScript/NestJS · C#/.NET · React/Next.js
- Azure: Functions · Service Bus · App Configuration · Key Vault · Application Insights · AKS · Bicep
- Platform: Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · GitOps · GitHub Actions · Azure DevOps · Bitbucket
- Data: PostgreSQL/pgvector · MongoDB · Snowflake · Redis
- AI: RAG · vLLM · Ollama · FAISS · LangChain · MCP · Claude · GPT · Gemini · Mistral · LoRA fine-tuning · Grafana/Prometheus for LLM observability
- Practice: Onion Architecture · TDD · Scrum (CSM) · process engineering · Jira decomposition (Epics → Features → Stories)
Also comfortable with…
- Self-hosted services: WordPress, Listmonk/Postfix/OpenDKIM, Matrix/Element, Ghost, bare-metal Ubuntu
- Privacy-first stacks and Big-Tech alternatives (Proton, GrapheneOS, System76, Synology)
- Proof-of-Stake validator operations (ETH2/Rocketpool) and self-custody training
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