Featured Projects
View AllTriton DataCenter
Open-source cloud orchestration platform acquired from Samsung, spanning virtualization, distributed storage, networking, and container management.
SmartOS / illumos
One of the maintainers of the SmartOS operating system and the illumos open-source project — the foundation for the Triton cloud platform.
AI-Native Engineering Platform
Production AI platform integrating Claude Code, local LLMs, and OpenAI into daily engineering workflows at Edgecast Cloud (Sovren Technologies).
Recent Writing
View AllAsking Questions Outside My Field
I am not an astronomer. In one working session with Claude I went from a vague question about NASA's open data to a candidate asteroid pair nobody seems to have reported. What made that possible, and what kept it honest.
A Candidate Asteroid Pair: 2018 NC15 and 2026 LD1
A search of every known near-Earth asteroid orbit turns up two bodies travelling within about one Earth-Moon distance of each other. I could not find the pair in the literature. Here is the evidence and what is still unverified.
Hot-Patching in the Agentic CVE Age
When exploit development moves faster than patch cycles, kernel livepatching can buy time. A practical, agent-assisted workflow with strict verification and a human making the final call.