About

From rockets to AI

I build AI infrastructure on my own hardware. There is a two-node GPU cluster (an RTX 3090 and an RTX 5090) that serves local models, an agentic RAG system that retrieves and cites answers against a real 321,000-chunk corpus, and a multi-agent platform of about 32,000 lines built to run a two-model team through a peer-review loop before anything ships. I have built it over the past year and a half: designing it, debugging it hands-on, folding in what worked from earlier projects, and increasingly using that two-model team itself to write and review code faster. The 3090 node is down with a hardware fault until I repair it, so for now the 5090 serves alone.

This work came out of my day job. I test RS-25 flight engines, and I also took on a documentation problem there: a large, scattered pile of technical material that had to be searchable and trustworthy. I cannot share any of that, so these repos are my own version of it: the same retrieval problems, built independently against public data.

The day job is verify-before-ship. Cryogenic inspections, leak checks, and flight-readiness testing. Nothing goes out until it is proven. I hold my own systems to the same standard: config is the source of truth, defaults fail closed, and I label every number measured or estimated instead of just asserting it. I am looking for remote ML-infrastructure or applied-AI work where that kind of discipline is the point.

How I work

Principles

Timeline

Where I've been

  1. 2025–Present

    Test Engineer: RS-25 flight engines

    Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris)

    • Cryogenic inspections, leak checks, and flight-readiness testing to flight-qualification standards.
    • Self-initiated: built an agentic RAG knowledge base over a large enterprise technical-documentation corpus that cut specification-research time (figures available on request).
  2. 2024–Present

    AI Infrastructure Engineer (self-directed)

    Personal: Local AI Infrastructure Lab

    • Designed and operate a modular, offline-capable multi-agent LLM platform (~32k LOC).
    • Stood up a two-node multi-GPU cluster with containerized model serving and fault recovery.
  3. 2024–2025

    Manufacturing Engineer

    Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris)

    • Authored and executed 40+ V&V procedures and acceptance protocols.
    • Built Python/VBA automation and led production capacity modeling for the assembly facility.
  4. 2023–2024

    Systems Engineer T1

    Leidos

    • DoD/Navy underwater acoustic systems integration and testing.
    • Automated PCB acceptance testing with LabVIEW (~5× faster); authored V&V protocols.
  5. 2022–2023

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Raspet Flight Research Lab, Mississippi State University

    • BVLOS UAV flight testing (ArduPilot / PX4); engineering analysis in MATLAB.
Education
B.S. Aerospace Engineering (Astronautics), Minor in Mathematics, Mississippi State University, 2023
Citizenship
U.S. citizen. Held a prior U.S. security clearance (currently inactive). Details on request.