Projects

This page is my workbench. What’s on it shifts with what I’m building, breaking, or curious about — engineering and personal agentic recipes, maker projects, and a few things on the back burner. If something here is useful to you, let’s talk.

Now

I’m building Rimcorp, my consulting practice focused on agentic engineering work — the tedious parts of running engineering (cost attribution, security posture, infra hygiene, daily ops) automated into one-command digests that leave the judgment to the human. Drawing on 25 years in engineering (IC to leadership), the recipes below are born from my day-job work as an engineering leader; Rimcorp is the practice I turn them into. If that’s adjacent to a problem you’re solving, the services page is the starting point.

Engineering agentic recipes

The current bench. Each one is a problem I kept solving manually, turned into a runnable recipe.

• Cost & AI spend attribution — where the money goes, what’s drifting, who’s spending what. Validated to ~1% of source-of-truth billing. Tested.
• Security posture digest — your security state in one report, with the false-positive playbook baked in so the noise doesn’t drown the signal. Tested.
• Silent-failure watchdog — backups, data, infra — the things that don’t alert until catastrophe. The quietest recipe is the most important one. Tested.
• Daily ops roll-up — start the day with what to look at, not what to discover. NEW vs CHRONIC vs threshold-candidate framing so signal doesn’t drown in the chronic backlog. Tested.

The pattern across all of them: a script that queries the source of truth, plus a memory file that carries the team’s noise-filtering rules. The script is replaceable; the memory file is the moat.

Personal agentic recipes

Same instinct, applied to my own data. The goal isn’t dashboards — it’s the agent making the call and telling me what to look at.

• Health pipeline — pulling data from my fitness tracker and workout log into a personal operating system so trends and baselines are visible, not guessed. Running daily.

Maker

Hardware and electronics. Different muscles, same fiddler’s instinct.

• Burning Man lighting rig — Arduino-powered music-reactive addressable LEDs, worn on the playa. Microphone input, self-adjusting algorithm that stayed sane in loud noise. Survived the dust, didn’t quite survive the ride home. Complete, 2024.
• CharcutePi — Raspberry Pi + relays + camera, rigged into a wine fridge to make a charcuterie curing chamber. The fundamentals work; the implementation needs a rewrite after an unfortunate beer incident. In progress, rewriting.

Back burner

• The Summarizer — an early attempt at aggregating and summarizing tech newsletters so I could read less and know more. I’ll come back to this one, but the landscape has moved (workflow tools like n8n, modern models) and the original approach needs a rethink. Paused, not abandoned.