Self-hosted K8s infrastructure with 22 services, mesh networking, internal PKI, and compliance-first security.
Lead DevSecOps for a large modernization effort: CI/CD, hardening, and Ansible-driven delivery across 36 microservices.
Integration, test, and secure delivery for space systems, ground infrastructure, and constrained operational environments.
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Start with the current platform work, then move to the experience summary and a direct contact path.
- Current zero-trust platform and modernization work
- Fifteen years across DevSecOps, systems integration, and mission-critical delivery
Read the highest-signal technical pieces.
Start with the strongest public writing rather than scanning the entire homepage top to bottom.
- AI-assisted OAuth2 work for Apache Guacamole
- Adversarial verification of an upstream GNOME RDP fix
See the research lanes and reach out.
Use the track map to find the right topic area, then move directly to contact or GitHub.
- AI, automation, agriculture, energy, robotics, space systems, and economics
- Papers, patches, and practical field notes in one place
About
Practical systems thinking for code, energy, and everyday infrastructure.
This site is about making complicated systems usable — from DevSecOps and AI-assisted delivery to balcony solar, kitchen experiments, and the economics behind real-world decisions. Test ideas against reality, document what works, share what's useful.
Platforms and Guardrails
DevSecOps, modernization, and AI-assisted development for systems that need to become secure, stable, and easier to operate.
Home, Energy, and Field Systems
Balcony solar, practical automation, agriculture, and household experiments built around cost, reliability, and repeatable results.
Papers, Notes, and Patches
Long-form explainers, short field notes, and open-source fixes that turn working experience into something other people can use.
Research Tracks
Nine research tracks.
Three core tracks — AI, Automation, and Agriculture — plus adjacent research in energy, economics, robotics, space systems, and more.
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AI
Agent workflows, machine-assisted engineering, and the discipline required to keep AI useful instead of theatrical.
- Secure AI development and evaluation practices
- Agent workflows for real engineering work
- Where automation helps and where it quietly lies
Automation
Pipelines, orchestration, repeatability, and the reality that good automation is just clear intent with teeth.
- CI/CD, deployment flows, and runbook-driven operations
- Ansible, infrastructure automation, and process rehab
- Eliminating fragile hand-built operational rituals
Agriculture
Food systems, practical growing, and production-minded experimentation at human scale.
- Small-scale systems with real utility
- Agriculture, tools, and production-minded experimentation
- What deserves automation and what does not
Energy & Renewables
Balcony solar, distributed generation, renewables, and grid questions that deserve systems thinking instead of slogans.
- Balcony solar and distributed generation
- Grid reliability, constraints, and tradeoffs
- Practical consumer and operator-level energy analysis
Economics
Incentives, markets, money, and the logic underneath engineering, energy, procurement, and public policy.
- Incentive structures and operational behavior
- Markets, value systems, and infrastructure economics
- Cost, risk, and why some systems stay irrational for years
Deal Hunter
Pricing, sourcing, used gear, and the difference between cheap, expensive, and actually worth it.
- Price tracking and sourcing notes
- Tool and hardware buying logic
- When used, surplus, or odd-lot gear makes sense
Robotics & Drones
Telemetry, moving hardware, field operations, and systems that fail in the real world instead of in a clean lab.
- UAVs, autonomy-adjacent tooling, and field operations
- Telemetry, maintenance, and practical analysis
- Where hardware and software stop agreeing with each other
Space Systems
Mission systems, ground systems, verification, and engineering habits that survive operational complexity.
- Ground systems and delivery discipline
- Integration, test, and traceability under pressure
- Systems thinking for complex environments
Kitchen Lab
Kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, and household experiments where observation beats vibes.
- Fermentation logs and process notes
- Household systems with measurable outcomes
- Small experiments, repeatability, and practical results
Writing
Featured writing and field notes.
My Clankers Wrote This.
AI-assisted writing with human verification. Key pieces are linked directly here.
Featured Paper
The Dog Cancer Vaccine That Actually Worked — And How You Can Build One
A grounded breakdown of the Rosie neoantigen vaccine story, what actually happened, and the real pipeline behind the headlines.
Featured PaperRDP Authentication Forensics and AI-Assisted Patching
How adversarial verification turned a plausible AI diagnosis into a narrower, defensible upstream fix.
Featured PaperAI-Assisted OAuth2 Authentication for Apache Guacamole
From authentication breakage to a working extension, with the security review work that mattered more than the codegen itself.
Field Notes
Short-form notes and working drafts
Published short notes land here. On preview builds, draft notes appear automatically for review.
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Papers + Patches
Published papers and open-source patches.
Long-form research and real contributions to real projects.
Paper
The Dog Cancer Vaccine That Actually Worked — And How You Can Build One
Paul Conyngham used AI tools to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie. Here's exactly how the pipeline works — and why it matters for all of us.
PaperAI-Assisted OAuth2 Authentication for Apache Guacamole
How AI-assisted development enabled building a secure OAuth2 extension, discovering a CSRF vulnerability in the process.
PaperRDP Authentication Forensics and AI-Assisted Patching
How agentic AI tooling helped investigate a 3-year-old GNOME Remote Desktop bug, and why adversarial verification caught four incorrect diagnoses.
PatchesGitHub Contributions
Targeted fixes and contributions to open-source projects — real patches, not vanity commits.
Resume
Fifteen years of shipping.
Fifteen years of systems engineering, DevSecOps, and mission-critical delivery across government, enterprise, and space domains.
DevSecOps + Platform Engineering
CI/CD pipelines, security hardening, container platforms, and compliance-first delivery. Kubernetes, Ansible, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and SAST/DAST gate integration.
Systems Integration + Test
Mission-critical integration and formal verification for satellite ground systems, constrained embedded environments, and accreditation-bound delivery.
Applied AI + Automation
Agentic AI workflows, infrastructure automation, and engineering process rehab that reduces toil without becoming theatrical.
Contact
Have Your AI Call My AI.
Whether it's a project, a question, or an idea worth exploring — I'd like to hear about it.