Been in love with computers since the IBM 486. DOS Shell. Windows 3.1. Always comfortable in a terminal. Emulated everything. Hooked a GameCube to a PC using the Phantasy Star Online DNS trick to stream GC games. Read every tech blog I could find through school. Broke stuff, fixed it, broke it again — that's how I learned.
Then 15 years in food service while never stopping the obsession. Crypto mining built the GPU farm (8 cards). VR consumed 2024 (VRChat, WiVRn, full body tracking). AI got serious late 2025. Blew $1K on Replit learning the hard way. Client web dev for Winnipeg small businesses.
Killed Windows for good September 2025. Went full NixOS January 2026.
In the months since: a 4-host declarative NixOS cluster with K3s, AI inference gateways, MCP orchestration, and the MapleSpike sovereign-AI data-fabric (maplespike is a private mono-repo under github.com/reverb256) — all self-hosted, all $0. (No specific commit or module count is asserted here; the live cluster and the live repo are the source of truth.)
- NixOS Infrastructure — 4-host cluster, Colmena deployment, everything declarative
- AI Tooling — OpenAI-compatible gateway, MCP servers, knowledge fabric, local LLM inference
- Rust Microservices — Web3/FIDO2 auth (astral-key), GPU mining proxy
- Open Source — contributing to PostHog, LibreChat, Heroic Launcher, and more
All code is AI-generated via agentic pipelines I architect. I define the scope, the AI executes.
~1995 IBM 486, DOS Shell, Windows 3.1 — hooked for life
~2000s Emulation, GameCube DNS exploits, tech blog addiction
~2020 Unraid Linux tinkering
2023 GitHub account created
2024 Deep VR dive (VRChat, WiVRn, Tundra trackers)
2025 AI gets real — Replit ($1K lesson), client web dev
Sep 25 Killed Windows permanently
Jan 26 First NixOS commit
Apr 26 2K+ commits, 4-node cluster, 12 merged open source PRs
Languages: Nix · Rust · TypeScript · Python · C++
Infra: NixOS · K3s · Colmena · Caddy
AI/ML: MCP · Qdrant · llama.cpp · Local LLMs
Hardware: 7 GPUs (from mining days) across 4 hosts
| Project | PRs | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| PostHog | 7 merged | UI polish, diff viewer, chat UX |
| Heroic Launcher | 1 merged | GOG presence fix |
| ClawWork | 1 merged | IPC type guard refactor |
| Haven | 1 merged | Desktop packaging |
| LibreChat | 1 open | MCP OAuth handling |
| Turso | 1 open | SQL LIMIT preservation |
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Lifelong tinkerer. Never too late to go all in.