I build the full stack — from kernel to UI — entirely in Rust, entirely from scratch.

An operating system. A text editor. An AI coding assistant. A blockchain. A borrow checker. An agent orchestrator. Neural networks. Programming languages. Simulators for synthetic life.

Most of it is open source; the commercial products and services below help me keep building in public.

Personal stretch goal: Build every tool I rely on — nothing I use should be something I couldn't have written myself. Full ownership of the stack.

I give all of this away for free as a shoutout to all the known and unknown open source hackers out there who influenced me, either directly or indirectly.

I run Vibe Coding Agency — shipping production AI infrastructure, agentic systems, and GPU cloud access for teams that need to move fast.

These three represent my core thesis: if you use it every day, you should own it.

Project	What	Why It Exists
RegicideOS	AI-native Linux distribution — Gentoo + BtrFS + Cosmic Desktop, every layer optimized for ML	Because an OS that doesn't understand GPUs is obsolete
openlibertas	Terminal-based AI coding assistant with multi-provider, MCP tools, multi-agent delegation, voice mode	Because your coding assistant should be yours — free forever, no subscriptions
neoxide	Neovim-inspired terminal editor with LSP, tree-sitter, Lua plugins, splits, registers, macros, marks	Because every developer deserves an editor that matches how they think

A curated set of projects that power my commercial work and research. See the full awdemos org for experiments in blockchain, languages, simulations, and games.

Not everything is scratch-built. Some things are battle-tested patterns you can actually use in production:

• Kubernetes — 100+ deployment patterns, Cilium eBPF, multi-cluster federation
• LLM Infrastructure — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, multimodal benchmarks
• KV Cache Infrastructure — Generate, quantize, and host KV caches for LLMs with kvcdn-cli + KV Cache Store
• CI/CD — Dagger Go pipelines, container-native builds, security scanning
• IaC — Pulumi (Go/TypeScript) for Azure & AWS multi-tenant infrastructure
• Rust — Matrix ops, CLI boilerplate, async patterns that don't leak memory

git clone https://github.com/awdemos/demos.git

Reproducible. Observable. Composable.

I design systems from first principles. Small tools that do one thing well and compose cleanly — the Unix way, but for the AI era.

• I don't trust black boxes. If I can't audit it, I don't ship it.
• I prefer code over YAML. If it can be code, it should be code.
• I believe in AI sovereignty. Models you own, data you control, infrastructure you can audit.
• I value memory safety. Not because Rust told me to, but because debugging segfaults at 3am is a waste of a life.
• I'm a huge fan of tried and true principles and underappreciated technologies. I can work on everything from a PDP-11 to FreeBSD and post-Linux kernels with equal fluency.

My formative years were spent on Slashdot and deep in open source culture — that ethos of transparency, collaboration, and building in public is still how I work today.

What Kimi 2.7 has to say about my coding style: A technically deep, curiosity-driven engineer with strong systems programming instincts, a Rust-centric toolchain, and heavy involvement in AI/automation tooling. Likely experiments broadly and iterates fast rather than shipping polished products. Possible backgrounds: systems engineer, game dev, AI/ML tooling, or indie hacker.

• Best-in-class infrastructure engineering
• The fastest CI/CD on the planet
• Extreme performance optimization
• Extreme Linux and open source security practices

A lot of this work is anchored in one idea: the future of intelligence is unified, not fragmented.

I'm exploring what it means to build AI Pangaea — the convergence of distributed intelligence islands into a more cohesive, secure, and capable continuum:

• Superintelligent entities with persistent memory and recursive self-improvement
• Security at every layer — sandboxing, guardrails, consensus verification, confidential execution
• Memory & continuity across sessions, devices, and intelligence islands

📄 AI Pangaea: Unifying Intelligence Islands — arXiv:2509.17460

• Vibe Coding Agency — products, consulting, and the Open Superintelligence Stack
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• Detroit AI Collective

If you're working on something in the intersection of systems, AI, and security, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.