Nine Posts About a Language Model That Didn't Work
Series introduction: what I set out to build, where it actually stands, and why I am publishing the failures with their numbers.
18+ years building DevOps, SRE, cloud and secure delivery platforms across financial services, media and enterprise tech. Now applying GenAI, RAG and developer tooling to engineering problems at scale.
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RAG assistants, defect intelligence and agentic developer tooling built on foundation models.
Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms with policy-driven admission control and automated provisioning.
Infrastructure and policy as code, with security controls that are validated automatically.
Pipelines, orchestration and APIs behind critical, high-volume trading workflows.
Leading DevOps, automation and production engineering for Equity Swaps platforms in Institutional Securities.
Led DevOps teams for PepsiCo and Universal Studios. Built a global NGINX API platform and ran CDN operations on Akamai and Cloudflare.
Led DevOps for Comcast, NBC Universal and Universal Studios. Automated API publishing, microservice onboarding and large-scale data migration.
Automated build, release and deployment for WebSphere, Java and .NET applications.

Series introduction: what I set out to build, where it actually stands, and why I am publishing the failures with their numbers.

Phases 0-2: building a backprop-free learner, picking anti-Hebbian on one seed, and discovering a frozen random layer cleared the same gates.

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Whether it's a delivery platform that needs rebuilding, security controls that should run themselves, or an AI assistant grounded in your own engineering data, I'd love to hear about it.