ML Engineer. Founder of VHTech LLC. Ship production AI systems that run daily under real operational constraints.
I build production AI systems that automate expert workflows. Not demos, not prototypes. Systems that run daily under real operational constraints.
My path here is unusual: mechanical and nuclear engineering coursework at Kansas State, seven years running sprayer equipment on commercial job sites while teaching myself to ship software, then full-time applied ML. That trade background shapes how I build. Systems have to work on the job, not in a deck.
I come from a strong engineering and mathematics foundation, not a CS degree. What I feature is real, built, and grounded in measurable work.
Ai slop developed solely by the imaginary persona of Opus 4.6 (pre-nerf)
in-process SOLIDWORKS COM add-in that reads the active CAD document through 18 typed tools and reasons over the results with an agentic tool-calling loop. Write operations follow an 8-step safety lifecycle: plan, preview, approve, apply, verify, trace, undo-label, history. Runs against several AI providers including local LLM's, with a deterministic fallback when no provider is configured. Built on C# .NET 4.8 and the SOLIDWORKS API. 703 Unit tests across broker orchestration, tool implementations, write infrastructure, and closed-file OLE indexing.
Personal AI development studio running headless on a dedicated Ubuntu server, accessed exclusively over Tailscale mesh from any device. React 19 PWA over an Express 5 API, with SQLite (better-sqlite3 WAL) for durable session continuity, ChromaDB and sentence-transformers for semantic knowledge search, and GitNexus code intelligence running impact analysis on every edit. OpenClaw handles agent orchestration through the Claude Agent SDK 0.2.84. Acts as the operator for a template framework that deploys skills, hooks, and documentation to ten downstream projects.
Multi-tenant task tracking and business management SaaS for informal employers: property owners, parents, and anyone running real work without a formal business entity. React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind on Vite 6, backed by Supabase Cloud with RLS on 25 tables, Realtime subscriptions, and 9 Edge Functions. 21 domain service modules, pgcrypto-encrypted AI keys and OAuth tokens, Stripe subscription billing gated at the database via the check_feature_limit RPC, and QuickBooks Online OAuth2 with bidirectional sync. 288 unit and 61 Playwright E2E tests, GitHub Actions CI/CD, PWA installable, deployed to Cloudflare Pages.
Self-directed market analysis system that generates testable hypotheses, backtests them against historical data, and manages a $499K paper portfolio behind 8 risk gates. Five cortexes (LSTM, FinBERT sentiment, Perplexity LLM deep analysis, rules-based momentum, and a local indicator ensemble) feed an adaptive-weight Oracle brain that reweights across 12 market regimes. The distinctive finding, surfaced by 2,987 logged predictions with outcome tracking, is that the system's own BUY signals are anti-predictive for going long at 27% accuracy but produce a 62.8% win rate as contrarian shorts with 2:1 W/L ratio. A multi-venue adapter layer (Alpaca equities wired live, plus verified fee models for Coinbase, Polymarket, and Kalshi) routes signals to whichever venue fits. Python 3.13, FastAPI, SQLite WAL, systemd daemons, Sentry observability, 506 tests across 22 files.
End-to-end 3D printing system for LEGO-compatible part production, from parametric geometry and automated slicing to direct printer control and telemetry monitoring. Includes a dimensional calibration workflow with measured compensation sweeps and profile locking targeting ±0.05 mm tolerance on clutch-critical geometry. Built as a hardware-adjacent manufacturing pipeline with resolved slicer profiles, automated exports, and production telemetry.
Robotics platform in active development for building practical skill in low-latency control, hardware debugging, sensor integration, and on-device inference. Represents a deliberate move from software-only ML systems into physical autonomy and real-world control constraints.
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Education
Kansas State University · Manhattan, Kansas
Targeting ML Engineer roles with real-time signal processing and BCI focus. Open to consulting on production AI systems and ambitious applied ML work.
📍 Kansas, United States