Platform / infrastructure engineer exploring distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and simulation-driven engineering.
Engineer with ~14 years building and operating software platforms, reliability infrastructure, and distributed systems.
Currently working on VA.gov modernization at Agile Six.
Primary research playground: Goldentooth, a Raspberry Pi compute cluster used to experiment with distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and observability pipelines.
🌀 ndouglas — Production Tools & Polished Projects
More mature or production-oriented projects, utilities, and tools.
- 👋 ndouglas: ooh, a secret
- 🧭 clork: A faithful port of Zork to Clojure
- 🔢 mips-sudoku-solver: A Sudoku solver, written in MIPS R4K assembly.
- 🕴️ resume: My résumé, written in LaTeX, with continuous delivery or something.
- 🎮 greenstone: A basic NES emulator written in Rust with an emphasis on debugging and game development.
- 🎲 longtable: LISP + ECS + Rule Engine
- 🧊 unity-hashing-grid: Hashing Grid implementation in Unity
- 🗣️ whispers: Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus.
- 💻 blackpool: An implementation of the Lox Virtual Machine, written in Rust
- 📈 linear-regression: Simple implementation of linear regression in Rust as a learning project.
- ☕️ distillation: An experiment with distillation using various combinations of naïve implementations, adversarial training, Jacobian penalties, and approximate Hessian penalties.
- arborhedron: An exploration of Platonic symmetry, emergent structures, symbolic recursion, and ideal-vs-real tension.
🦷 Goldentooth — Distributed Systems Laboratory
Goldentooth is a small Raspberry Pi compute cluster used as an experimental lab for distributed systems and infrastructure research.
Focus areas:
• Distributed coordination and service discovery • Observability pipelines (Vector → Loki → Grafana → Prometheus) • ML training infrastructure simulation • Cluster orchestration (Kubernetes, Slurm, Nomad) • Failure injection and chaos testing
The goal is to explore how complex infrastructure behaves under realistic constraints.
- 🚜 gitops: GitOps repository for Goldentooth Talos cluster
- 🧱 clog: The changelog formerly known as "Kubernetes, the Excruciating Way".
- 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Goldentooth
- 👋 .github: My ✨special ✨ repository
- 🏗️ cluster: Declarative definition for Goldentooth.
- 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.
🌉 Bitterbridge — Systems Experiments
Exploratory projects focused on distributed algorithms, simulation, and unconventional infrastructure ideas.
Typical themes:
• CRDT-based distributed systems • gossip networks and decentralized coordination • agent architectures and simulation environments • infrastructure prototypes and experimental tools
- 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Bitterbridge
- 🧩 terraform-modules: Reusable Terraform modules for various projects
- 👋 .github: Special Repository
- ❓ crows-nest: A thunk-based agentic system.
- 🕵️ rills: A little experiment with LLMs playing Mafia, basically.
- ⚙️ github-actions: GHA reusable Actions and Workflows for use in my various repositories
- 📉 p5js-sketches: p5.js sketches for fun and to show off silly ideas
️🔥 Hellholt — Configuration & Personal Infrastructure
Dotfiles, environment configuration, and supporting infrastructure for my development environments and cluster work.
- 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Hellholt
- 👋 .github: Special Repository
- ❓ sillicoin-valley-tycoon: A satirical game about how stupid everything is right now.
- 🎤 podcasts: Podcasts I listen to and archive.
- 🧿 dotfiles: My dotfiles, somewhat more reasonably structured.
- 📺 youtube: YouTube channels I archive (and occasionally watch).
- 📚 books: Books I want to read, intend to read, am putting off reading, am reading, am taking a break from reading, am finishing, have finished, or desperately want to have finished.
- 🎵 albums: A collection of YAML lists of albums in my listening queue
- 👩 pinkmaiden: A personal image-sharing site for images I find interesting.
- 💡 ideas: A repository just for ideas, since I'm having them faster than I can finish them...
- 📐 projects: Projects I'm planning to do in the next little bit. (Will obviously grow dramatically over time.)
- 🎓 phd-ideas: Ideas I have for potential PhD theses.
- 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.
- 🥅 goals: All of the things I want to do.
- 🖨️ cheatsheets: A list of cheatsheets and reminders I've made for personal reference.
- ✅ todo: A repository to track all of the things I should be doing right now...
- ✍️ blog: My blog, written and maintained by Hugo.
When not building distributed systems:
- 🇫🇷 Relearning French
- 🧱 Building LEGO with my kid
- 🖌️ Painting miniatures (and printing them faster than I can paint them)
- 🧘♂️ Lifting, cycling, rowing — brain only works when body does
- 👨🍳 Cooking (🥖 baking, 🧀 cheesemaking, 🍝 pasta experiments)
- 🎥 Letterboxd
- 🎼 RateYourMusic
- 🎮 Not playing anything in my Steam backlog
- 🎲 Not playing any of my board games either
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