I’ve spent the last several years engineering systems that hum in the background — first as a network engineer building infrastructure that just worked, now in financial systems at BlackRock from Decatur, GA.
AI automation is the natural next layer. The same discipline that keeps a network alive at 3am — clear contracts, observable state, graceful failure modes — is exactly what separates an agent that ships from a demo that doesn’t.
I take on small, well-scoped builds: an agent that replaces a recurring task, a pipeline that runs while you sleep, a knowledge system your team actually uses. Then I leave it running.