Sysadmin first, then DevOps, then full-stack, then AI Architect. I still do all, because one is never enough. The homelab is the proof: a small rack of machines humming in the corner, running self-hosted services, media servers, experiments, and whatever I decided at 2 a.m. was essential. Most of my tools live there, and if the internet goes out, the house still runs.
And yes, I'm an audiophile. That means the homelab has a sibling: a listening corner with amps, DACs, and headphones that cost more than they reasonably should. The servers handle the data, the tubes and planar drivers handle the mood. Two hobbies, one questionable electricity bill.
I'm the Director of the SaaS Dept at Orpheus, where our team builds SaaS products for clients. Most of my job is keeping two things honest: the product has to fit the way a client actually works, and the AI has to earn its keep. A chatbot that answers a question isn't agentic. I make sure what we ship actually does the thing, not just talks about doing it.
Athurium is a different animal: my own lab and agency. Custom development, AI products, APIs, on-prem LLMs, cloud provider APIs, fine-tuned models, automation, robotics, open-source development and contribution. A lot of ideas go in, and occasionally something useful comes out. Caffeine goes in too, in quantities I prefer not to measure.
Athurium turns high-level questions into deployable infrastructure. The visualization above shows that forward pass in action: tokenizing business intent, routing it through attention layers, and generating five autonomous operational outcomes that keep businesses moving.
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