Systems · Security · Independent R&D
Network and security specialist, infrastructure generalist, and founder of Juniper Applied Research — a small independent lab for experiments in local AI, software, hardware, and whatever else seems worth investigating.
View Projects More About MeInfrastructure specialist by trade. Technical generalist by temperament.
By day, I work in network infrastructure and cybersecurity, with a particular concentration in Microsoft 365, Entra, Intune, virtualization, networking, endpoint management, and security operations.
Outside the day job, I'm an incurable technical generalist. I build software, automate things that probably didn't need automating, experiment with local language models, resurrect old enterprise hardware, and make purpose-built systems for problems that annoy or interest me.
Most of those experiments now live under Juniper Applied Research — my deliberately broad little R&D shop for software, hardware, AI, infrastructure, and miscellaneous technical rabbit holes.
Technologies I've spent enough time fighting with to have opinions about.
Things I built because apparently leaving well enough alone isn't an option.
A purpose-built, always-on household calendar and information display combining multiple ICS calendars, scheduling logic, weather, RSS, proportional event visualization, and physical controls.
A scheduling engine that turns complex recurring schedules, holidays, overrides, and exceptions into deterministic calendar output — including an explanation of why any day resolves the way it does.
Experiments in running modern language models on decidedly non-modern hardware: multi-GPU desktops, llama.cpp, quantization, NUMA tuning, and a large-memory dual-Xeon server.
A purpose-built ESP32-S3 wearable recorder designed around near-instant capture, local storage, long standby, and minimal interaction friction.
Independent research division
An independent technical research and development shop with an intentionally loose mandate: local AI, software, embedded systems, infrastructure, and other technically interesting problems.
Current research priority: seeing what useful things can be made from hardware, software, and unreasonable curiosity.
Want to talk infrastructure, security, strange hardware, local AI, or something I've built? Say hello.
I’m always interested in an unusually specific technical problem, a good systems story, or a machine being used far beyond its intended purpose. A direct contact link will live here once I choose the least annoying way to publish one.