Infrastructure & Systems Engineer · Open-Source Maintainer · AI-Agent Infrastructure
I build the networks, automation, and agent systems that connect physical infrastructure to governed, intelligent operations.
I have 20 years of hands-on experience building and running ISP and telecom infrastructure. As President of Network Engineering and Operations at ServerDomes, I am responsible for fiber WAN design and datacenter networking. I also founded Ryno Crypto Mining Services, which builds modular, direct-to-chip liquid-cooled Bitcoin mining infrastructure powered by green energy.
My open-source work applies the same discipline to software: tools that let AI agents operate real networks safely, and automation that keeps those systems reproducible and reviewable.
Current focus: MCP-based network operations with UniFi MCP Server, and Noesis — a governed multi-agent system and the Ansible code that deploys it.
An open-source Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents one standard interface to UniFi infrastructure: UniFi Network, UniFi Protect, and the UniFi cloud APIs. Agents can inspect clients, devices, firewall policy, and sites, and can change configuration when the operator allows it.
- 290+ GitHub stars, and an active community that contributes code, reports bugs, and requests features.
- Built-in safety controls: every write needs explicit confirmation and supports a dry-run preview. Read-only and dry-run server modes and role-based risk tiers limit what an agent can do, and a hash-chained audit log records each change.
- Flexible deployment: a PyPI package or multi-architecture container over stdio or Streamable HTTP, with Ansible and Helm options and an optional multi-controller fleet mode.
Python · FastMCP · Pydantic · Apache-2.0
Repository · Tool reference · Contributing guide · Discussions
A governed multi-agent system built on Hermes Agent profiles. A central orchestrator plans work, gives each task to the specialist with the narrowest mandate, and combines the results. The orchestrator itself has no execution access.
- Durable handoffs: work moves as typed task contracts in an append-only ledger, not as chat history.
- Approval boundaries: irreversible operations wait at a human approval gate, and reviewer-only profiles audit work they did not do.
Status: the orchestration control plane passes its repository test suite. Production activation is phase-gated and not yet complete; the repository's status section records each gate.
The infrastructure side of Noesis. The agent stack defines and coordinates agent behavior; this repository provisions and configures the services it runs on: agent and MCP registries, policy and sandboxing, memory services, agent runtimes, and observability.
- Phased, idempotent playbooks from host bootstrap to validation, with backup, restore, and rollback playbooks.
- Targets in the repository today: local Docker hosts, macOS machines over a Tailscale tailnet, and SSH production inventories, plus Helm charts for Kubernetes and K3s.
Ansible · Docker · Helm · Tailscale
AI agents and tooling
- Claude Command & Control — Manuals, templates, and practices for Claude commands, agent configuration, and multi-agent workflows.
- Moltbot Philosopher — A council of philosopher-persona agents that posts and debates on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents.
Network, DNS, and privacy infrastructure
- Ansible Handshake DNS — Deploys a Handshake full node, Unbound with DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, and Caddy for decentralized DNS resolution.
- Ansible Anon Relay — Deploys an Anyone Protocol anon relay in Docker.
- Tailscale ACL — Tailscale access policy managed as code, with GitOps workflows and AI coding agents.
- yubikey-tools — Scripts and a Python library for YubiKey setup and management: GPG, PIV, FIDO2, and OATH.
- Networks & edge infrastructure — Fiber WAN and datacenter networking, ISP and telecom operations, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, IPsec, WireGuard, DNS.
- Systems & automation — Linux, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, KVM, Proxmox, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack, Prometheus.
- AI agents & orchestration — Model Context Protocol servers, Hermes Agent, approval-gated multi-agent workflows, Claude Code.
- Decentralized & privacy infrastructure — Bitcoin mining infrastructure, DePIN (Akash, Helium), decentralized storage (Filecoin, Storj), dVPN and mixnets (Sentinel, Nym, Anyone), hardware security keys.
- Community ISP Handbook — A guide for rural communities that want to form a local ISP.
- Bridging the Digital Divide — A talk on bringing broadband to rural Montana through cooperatives (2021).
- Missoula Valley Internet Co-op launch — KPAX News coverage of the co-op's network launch (2021).
- Nostr articles on Yakihonne — Writing on blockchain and technology.
Bug reports, pull requests, and technical discussion are welcome in each project's issue tracker. For other conversations, use email or X.