Cloud & AI Architect
Building with AI,
writing about what works.
15+ years architecting cloud and AI systems — from healthcare infrastructure to award-winning AI products. Here I benchmark local LLMs, build agents, and document the techniques that actually hold up.
Currently
AI & DevOps Architect
Stealth startup
Previously
Cloud Architect
Healthcare
Recognition
2× hackathon winner
GitLab AI Hackathon · MS Azure AI (3rd / 9,500+)
01 — Latest writing
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Free AI Image-to-3D on a Kaggle T4: a TRELLIS Car in a three.js Racer
TRELLIS image to 3D on a free Kaggle T4: 39.4 s to a textured car with 12,444 faces, cut to a 300 KB GLB and raced in a three.js game you can play here.
Claude Opus 5.5: Pricing, Benchmarks vs GPT-6 Astra, Banked Reset and Breaking Changes
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million tokens, 40% less than Opus 5, and leads Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 66.4%. Full model card, plan changes, the banked rate-limit reset and 4 breaking API changes.
Qwen3.8-27B on a 24GB Mac: 3 Kernel Panics and the 17.76 GiB Limit Apple Doesn't Print
Your Mac has 24GB of RAM. Metal reports 17.76 GiB as the amount the GPU can use without hurting performance. Comparing a GGUF file size against total RAM is the wrong arithmetic, and that gap is where the kernel panics live. Measured on one M4 Pro, including the runs that failed.
02 — Recognition
3rd place among 9,500+ developers — Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon
Foodi Copilot, an AI nutrition assistant built on Azure AI and Cosmos DB, placed in the top 0.2% of one of Devpost's most popular hackathons and was featured on the official Microsoft Developer Blog.
Winner, Sustainable Design — GitLab AI Hackathon
TFGuardian: five AI agents that review Terraform like a real platform engineering team, catching cost, security and drift issues before a plan is applied. Built with Go, Python and React.
FEATURED INTERVIEW — MICROSOFT HACKATHON WINNERS
03 — Selected projects
All projects →AnvilTerm
Open-source agentic terminal. Claude, Codex, Antigravity, OpenCode, Copilot and Ollama as real CLIs in live tiles, with a browser they can drive, document editing, and per-tab cloud isolation. MIT.
Foodi Copilot
AI-powered nutrition assistant. 3rd place out of 9,500+ developers at the Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon — featured on the official Microsoft Developer Blog.
Browser Agent
Chrome extension agent using RAG to automate multi-step browsing workflows autonomously.