Senior Information Security Engineer with 15+ years securing federal platforms. I spent last Saturday at 2 AM debugging a K3s cluster in my homelab – and loved every minute of it. Here, I share what works, what spectacularly fails, and the lessons I've learned from breaking things (legally, of course) since 2010.
"A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
That nerdy kid in 1995 devouring Foundation and Empire under the covers with a flashlight? Yeah, that was me. Now I'm helping secure a FedRAMP Moderate platform while running local LLMs on my RTX 3090 to explore AI security. I'm implementing the actual controls to keep AI systems safe – thinking about the same questions Asimov posed, just with more YAML files, threat models, and 3 AM security patches than I expected.
Security insights, AI experiments, homelab adventures, and lessons from the field.
The engineering story behind nexus-agents, a research-backed multi-model orchestration system that coordinates Claude, Gemini, and Codex through consensus voting, adaptive routing, and graph workflows.
How multi-model consensus voting catches blind spots that single models miss. The research behind adversarial roles, Bayesian aggregation, and structured deliberation across Claude, Gemini, and Codex.
How I went from naive round-robin model selection to a five-stage routing pipeline backed by RouteLLM, TOPSIS, and LinUCB research. The failures that led to each improvement.
Areas of expertise and interests
Implementing Zero-Trust architectures for federal systems. Microsegmentation isn't just theory – it's what stops lateral movement when something gets through.
Started with a $50 Raspberry Pi in 2015, now running enterprise gear in my basement. I've broken it 47 times and learned something valuable every single time.
Running local LLMs for security research and AI safety experiments. That childhood obsession with Asimov's Three Laws evolved into real work on AI alignment.
Writing 73+ blog posts about security, AI safety, and homelab experiments. My most popular posts openly admit "here's what I broke and what I learned."
Got a security question? Building your first homelab? Debating if that CVSS 7.2 vulnerability is worth an emergency patch at 10 PM? Let's chat.