Technical Fellow candidate · 30+ years across the full stack of technology
I turn complex technology into systems people can build on.
Hardware. Networks. UNIX. Databases. Data centers. Software. AI. Enterprise architecture. I connect the layers, remove the friction, and build reusable platforms that keep paying dividends.
Think in systems
Understand the environment before optimizing the part.
Prove before scaling
Validate architecture with working software before committing a team.
Build once, leverage for years
Turn one-off solutions into reusable organizational capabilities.
keith-rnd.sys - what I build on my own time
LIVE
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Independent R&D
I learn by building.
I learn by building.
Then I keep going until it becomes a platform.
These are not mockups. They are operating systems, products, prototypes, and released software.
LIVE EXPERIMENT · AI + COMPUTER VISION
ASL Transformer
Can a computer learn sign language from just 19 examples?
A proof-of-concept American Sign Language recognition system that uses MediaPipe landmarks and a custom transformer to distinguish between the signs COOKIE and PIE.
- Trained on only 19 videos from several different signers.
- Converts each frame into 303 hand, finger, movement, and body-relative features.
- Resamples every gesture into a 30-frame sequence for temporal learning.
- Uses a compact custom transformer with approximately 89,000 trainable parameters.
- COOKIE and PIE are intentionally similar, forcing the model to learn that precise finger positions matter.
COOKIE or PIE?
LANDMARK CAPTURE
MODEL PREDICTION
COOKIE
99.5% confidence
19training examples
~89Kparameters
2signs
OPERATING PROTOTYPE · AI + HARDWARE
SonicBooth
Turn a prompt into a multisensory experience.
An AI-powered immersive booth created to make noisy public spaces more inclusive, more personal, and far more fun.
- Four persistent AI personalities with relationships, humor, and evolving story arcs.
- LoRA-tuned LLMs, RVC voice cloning, MediaPipe eye tracking, ESP32 and OrangePi control.
- AI-orchestrated lighting, fans, audio, projection, and physical effects.
- SonicML, a custom XML language that lets AI direct the booth experience.
- Designed around “Senses Transformed”-sound becomes light, motion, touch, and atmosphere.
SONICBOOTH EXPERIENCE ENGINE
● ONLINE
What would you like to experience?
“Tell me a story about Princess Mia and Dragon Slayer Timmy.”
LIGHTINGStandby
AIRFLOW0%
AUDIOQuiet
HOSTSonic
<experience state="ready" />
BACKEND MVP · ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
KnowMy.biz
Turn what employees know into knowledge the organization can use.
An AI interview platform that learns how work actually gets done, then converts grounded employee answers into durable, structured organizational knowledge.
- Conversational role-discovery interviews powered by Gemini.
- Captures roles, responsibilities, workflow steps, handoffs, tools, people, and open questions.
- Requires every learned fact to be grounded in an exact excerpt from the employee's answer.
- Separates AI interpretation from authoritative validation, identity, and persistence.
- Uses TiDB and MongoDB with repository-enforced tenant isolation and secure server-side sessions.
KNOWMY
What happens after a new service request is assigned to you?
EMPLOYEE
I review the request, contact the customer, and schedule the visit in ServiceTitan.
GROUNDED FACTS EXTRACTED
WORKFLOWReview request
HANDOFFContact customer
TOOLServiceTitan
TiDB authority
Mongo knowledge
Tenant isolated
IN TESTING · DEVELOPER PLATFORM
Live DDL
Stop drawing databases. Start engineering them.
A visual database design platform that keeps SQL, the interactive model, metadata, relationships, and generated changes synchronized in real time.
- Automatic layout gets complex schemas roughly 80% organized instantly.
- Relationship lines reroute themselves as tables move.
- Focus navigation brings related tables into a temporary “mini world.”
- Direct SQL and visual editing remain synchronized both ways.
- Enterprise tenancy, permissions, shared projects, and revision history.
IN TESTING · COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
GroupBoard
Group communication with delivery intelligence built in.
A mobile-first group communication platform with push, email, read/open tracking, audience-aware AI rewriting, quiet hours, invitations, roles, and organization theming.
- Push + email delivery with receipts and read/open analytics.
- AI rewrite that adapts tone to the group’s configured identity.
- Multi-tenant organizations, roles, invitations, QR joins, and member directories.
- Developer API concept: communicate intent, not just strings.
notifyLunch.jsJavaScript
await groupboard.send({
group: "Kitchen Staff",
title: "Lunch is Ready!",
body: "Orders are ready for pickup.",
autoTheme: true
});
Generated using group theme
🍔 Lettuce celebrate!
Lunch has landed. Grab it before it makes a great escape.
RELEASED · CUSTOM HTML5 GAME
Plasma Rings
A puzzle game with a rendering pipeline built from scratch.
A custom browser game featuring hand-built rendering, particles, animations, reactor effects, progression systems, and responsive scaling across devices.
- 3,500+ player-completed levels during early release.
- Custom rendering and sprite pipeline - no off-the-shelf game engine.
- Responsive viewport scaling with no gaps or distortion.
- Multiple meltdown modes, fuel rods, progression, and visual effects.
- Manually drawn SVG rectors images made in a text editor.
LIVE MVP · PROPERTY INTELLIGENCE
Egor
Know your home. Maintain what matters. Preserve its history.
A property intelligence, maintenance, and service coordination platform that helps homeowners understand, document, maintain, and manage the physical things around them.
- Model properties, rooms, equipment, ownership, and maintenance responsibility.
- Scan equipment labels with AI to identify assets and extract technical specifications.
- Track documents, maintenance schedules, service history, warranties, and open issues.
- Record completed maintenance conversationally by text or voice.
- Invite co-owners while preserving the property's identity and history across ownership changes.
PROPERTY123 Main Street
Home overview
⌂8Rooms
◇24Assets
✓2Due soon
ROOMS & SYSTEMS
GarageWater heater · Electrical panel
KitchenRefrigerator · Range · Dishwasher
ExteriorRoof · Drainage · HVAC
NEEDS ATTENTION
Replace HVAC filterDue this week
Water heater inspectionUpcoming maintenance
⌾Scan equipmentAI reads labels and specifications
◉Tell EgorRecord maintenance by voice or text
Every layer matters
Broad enough to see the whole system.
Broad enough to see the whole system.
Deep enough to change it.
Most architectural failures happen between specialties. My career has lived in those seams.
Systems
Thinking
01 / HARDWARE
Build from the physical layer up.
Designed data centers, power distribution, cooling, racks, PDUs, networks, embedded controllers, and custom electronics-then connected those systems to software and real-world experiences.
Selected enterprise impact
Not just software.
Not just software.
Capabilities that changed how organizations worked.
Engineering ecosystem
Quartz
From “Wild West” to enterprise engineering platform.
Established the original governance model, SDLC, operational standards, engineering practices, support model, and validation framework for Bank of America's consolidated trading and risk platform.
Workflow platform
UMF
Build the platform once. Let dozens of applications inherit the capability.
Designed and built a reusable drag-and-drop workflow automation platform used across engineering, including enterprise provisioning for new servers and host services.
100,000+installation requests / year
Dozensof downstream applications
Operational automation
Quacker
Two full-time people. Forty-five minutes per request. Replaced by five minutes a day.
Conceived and co-developed Quartz's permission analysis and governance platform, converting a growing manual backlog into an automated, repeatable operational process.
Before
45 min
per request · 25–45 daily
→
After
5 min
one daily automated workflow
Infrastructure + business
RealPages
Started as the one-person IT shop. Finished as second-in-command of 248 people.
Built infrastructure, automation, data centers, operational platforms, support capability, vendor contracts, and technology leadership through a period of extraordinary growth.
Systems administrator40 servers
IT manager$14M budget
Acting associate director248 people
Business scale−$11M → $1B+
Capability evolution
I kept refining the skills I already had.
I kept refining the skills I already had.
Then I added new ones on top.
Each scroll step adds one enduring capability to the collection. The left panel shows how that capability evolved across my career; the right panel tells the story of why it mattered and how I applied it.
How I work
“Before committing a team to a large project, I prefer to validate the architecture with a working proof of concept.”
Early prototypes expose technical risk, uncover edge cases, validate assumptions, and give engineering teams a solid foundation before significant effort is invested.
Understand the complete system.
Remove friction and repetition.
Build reusable capabilities.
Stay hands-on at every level.
The next challenge
Bring me the problem that crosses boundaries.
The one that touches architecture, infrastructure, teams, process, data, operations, and technology - and has resisted every narrow solution.