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Founder & Principal Engineer, AWACS LLC
Senior AI Data Protection Engineer
25 years of infrastructure. The last 2 building AI-orchestrated operations in production.
Raleigh, NC
Download PDF ↓I operationalize AI for infrastructure teams. I build the tooling, the governance, and the knowledge layer so the next engineer can ask the platform what it does and why it was built that way. Every engagement leaves behind a system that explains itself.
Core thesis: AI is the execution layer. Engineering judgment is the moat.
Class A (execution-validated), Class B (official docs), Class C (community). 7-state trust lifecycle with drift detection. Class C never promotes to Class A.
Deterministic enforcement (exit(2)) that blocks writes before they happen. PostToolUse detects. PreToolUse prevents.
Session-persistent rules preventing 16+ known failure modes. Every rule traces to a documented incident.
Each session improves the next. 9 dated captures from Rubrik project showing incident-to-rule conversion.
Build custom tooling. Validate with pre-deploy test suites (256 assertions, 0 failures). Explain by leaving a knowledge layer.
Production incident journals. 8 sessions of AI-orchestrated Azure Local + Rubrik deployment. $9.99 on Gumroad.
Knowledge Gap: Detonator, Volume 1. Claude Code Managing Azure Local.
3 issues filed on anthropics/claude-code. Exit(1) vs exit(2) enforcement, hook edge cases, silent failures.
3-course hands-on curriculum. 2-day format. 5-seat max.
Everything in one place
Let's talk: dustin@awacs.ai
