Agents by day, homelab by night.

I'm a senior software engineer at Cognite. I work on the platform behind Atlas AI, from the agentic loop and model integrations to the tools the agents call. Before Cognite I spent five years at Amazon and AWS, mostly automating work people had been doing by hand. At AWS that saved more than 50 developer-years.

At home I run a three-node Proxmox cluster the way I'd run production, with every config in git behind CI and encrypted offsite backups. It also hosts my local LLM stack on an RTX 4090. In my spare time I write Berserk, an open-source chess engine in C. It's rated 3514 on CCRL 40/15 and plays in TCEC's Premier Division.

export const jay = {
  role: "Senior Software Engineer",
  focus: ["AI agents", "LLM platforms", "system design"],
  languages: ["TypeScript", "Java", "Kotlin", "Go", "Python", "C", "C++"],
  basedIn: "Phoenix, AZ",  // saguaro country
  offHours: ["homelab", "local LLMs", "Berserk"],
};

I'm happy to talk about AI agents, homelabs, or chess engine tuning.

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