20+ years building systems — from Linux supercomputers & Top 500 HPC clusters → Web 2.0 startups → award-winning AI platforms for the US Navy.
- 🔭 Current: AI Factory Lead at a Fortune 500 company
- 🎖️ Former: Lead AI Infrastructure Engineer at Helix Center for Applied AI — built an award-winning AI platform for the US Navy (Jan 2025)
- 🧠 Former: Cycorp Inc. — reported to Dr. Doug Lenat, supported symbolic AI for defense & healthcare
- 🚀 Early Career: Sold Linux supercomputers, built Top 500 HPC systems, infrastructure at LiveJournal & OpenDNS
- 🏆 NVIDIA Certified: DGX SuperPOD · AI Infrastructure · InfiniBand
- 🌆 Community: Founder, Detroit AI Collective
| ⭐ | Project | Lang | What It Is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | RegicideOS | 🦀 Rust | AI-native Linux distribution (Gentoo + Btrfs + Cosmic Desktop) |
| 🥈 | zerochain | 🦀 Rust | Multi-agent orchestration via plain text files |
| 🥉 | merlin | 🦀 Rust | RL-based LLM prompt router (sub-ms async routing) |
| 🔧 | opencode-pushguard | 📘 TS | Pre-push git hook for AI-assisted workflows |
| 🛡️ | opencode-watchtower | 🐚 Shell | Safer agent tool calling with utcp isolation |
| 🧠 | opencode-memento | 📘 TS | Preserves project context across AI coding sessions |
See the full project index for demos & infrastructure patterns.
This repo (awdemos/demos) contains production-grade patterns:
- Kubernetes — 100+ deployment patterns, Cilium eBPF, multi-cluster
- LLM Infrastructure — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, multimodal benchmarks
- CI/CD — Dagger Go pipelines with container-native builds
- IaC — Pulumi (Go/TypeScript) for Azure & AWS multi-tenant infra
- Rust — Matrix operations, CLI boilerplate, async patterns
git clone https://github.com/awdemos/demos.gitReproducible. Observable. Composable.
I think from first principles. I design systems the way Unix intended: small, focused tools that do one thing well and compose cleanly. I believe in symbolic AI and systems thinking over hype cycles. I distrust big tech consolidation and I'm a big fan of AI sovereignty — models you own, data you control, infrastructure you can audit.
Memory safety and zero-cost abstractions aren't just Rust features — they're how I think about infrastructure architecture.
© 2026 Andrew White