AI systems engineer building production autonomous-agent infrastructure in Rust and Python.
- 🔀 Cognitive Router — intent-aware LLM proxy with circuit breakers, cost tracking, and self-healing failover. 80k+ routing decisions in production.
- 💻 Karl Code — agent-first CLI coding workspace, with its fine-tuning eval record (good and bad) committed alongside the code.
- 🤖 chatgpt-escalation-mcp — MCP server for escalating complex questions from coding agents to ChatGPT Desktop.
- 🎙️ Narrator — production audiobook pipeline in Rust: GPU synthesis, ASR QA loops, multi-worker IPC, watchdogs. A 150,000-word novel rendered end-to-end.
- 🦞 Active contributor to OpenClaw.
Writing weekly about systems design at dazlarus.dev. Author of The Incubator (How a Genetics Nerd Rebuilt the World, Book 1).