Software Engineer · AI Agent Infrastructure & Production Platforms

I build the infrastructure coding agents ship through, and run the production platforms they ship to.

As Head of Engineering at Educational Travel Adventures, I lead a two-person engineering team running the reservations, payments, and Linux fleet a specialty-travel business depends on. My current project is thirdshift, an open-source Rust software factory. It takes GitHub issues through implementation, review, and CI to pull requests.

4+ years of production ownership Rust orchestration across six agent harnesses Review and CI gates

Outcomes

4+ yrs Continuously maintaining the production platform a 40-person travel company runs on across a 14-host Linux fleet - cutting key workflow latency from 5–10s to under 1s.

4 Zero-downtime platform cutovers shipped live: PHP 5.6 → 8, MySQL 5.7 → 8.4 LTS, CentOS 7 → Rocky Linux 9, and TranSafe → Monetra → NMI payments.

3 AI agent systems in production: Docker Manager Sandboxes, a vault-backed orchestration VM, and thirdshift (orchestrating 6 harnesses; evaluated across 183 replayed code reviews).

PCI End-to-end card processing and automated NACHA-formatted ACH batches to M&T Bank, with encrypted bank-account storage and full PCI compliance throughout.

Current work: thirdshift

A deterministic Rust orchestrator coordinates coding agents across isolated Git worktrees, dependency-aware parallel tickets, standards and spec reviews, CI checks, and bounded repair loops. Failed runs preserve their work for continuation; merging is an explicit option.

Fresh eyes beat a second family 183 replayed code reviews: testing where a second review helps, separating fresh context from model-family differences, and publishing the limitations.

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