I bridge the gap between complex legacy systems and modern enterprise cloud architecture. Currently, I lead the development of AI-driven integrations and mission-critical document distribution systems for the Aviation and Regulatory sectors.
Beyond the enterprise, I am the long-term architect of Lost Souls MUD, a project that has served as my personal laboratory for high-concurrency systems and extreme-scale software engineering for almost a decade.
Since 2018, I have served as the Project Lead and Owner of one of the internet’s longest-running and most technically complex virtual worlds.
- Legacy Stewardship: Managing a 35-year-old codebase (LPC/C) with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, refactoring legacy drivers, and modernizing the Ain Soph mudlib.
- Complex Systems: Architecting intricate engine features including A* search algorithms, limb-based physical modeling, and complex AI behaviors that predated modern LLMs.
- Platform Engineering: Operating a multi-node Kubernetes platform that handles real-time telemetry, monitoring, and web APIs for a global user base.
- Team Leadership: Directing a volunteer development team of over 10 international software professionals, enforcing documentation standards, and implementing modern CI/CD workflows for a historically "un-automatable" environment.
- AI & NLP Orchestration: Architecting LLM integrations and low-level NLP pipelines using AWS Bedrock and Microsoft Semantic Kernel.
- Modern .NET & Java: Expert-level development in .NET 8+, Java (Spring/Hibernate), and TypeScript for high-compliance industries.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via Terraform and Bicep to manage Azure and AWS cloud environments.
- Senior Software Engineer (Aviation, Safety & Compliance): Leading full-stack development of document authoring software. Modernizing legacy stacks to .NET 8/Java 25 and implementing AI-driven product features.
- Full Stack Engineer (Financial Analytics): Engineered cloud-native analytical and financial reporting tools for Fortune 500 clients using .NET Core and Azure Functions.
- Software Engineer (Industrial & HVAC): Designed micro-service frameworks to integrate SAP Business One with Active Directory and custom mobile apps (Xamarin/React Native).
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | .NET (C#), Java, Python, TypeScript, C/C++, Go, LPC, PowerShell, Bash |
| Frameworks | ASP.NET Core, Spring Boot, Semantic Kernel, React, Entity Framework, Flask |
| Infrastructure | Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Terraform, Bicep, Azure Functions, AWS Bedrock |
| Databases | MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, CosmosDB, DynamoDB |
- Digital Resume: starhound.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/starhound
- The MUD: lostsouls.org
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." — Marcus Aurelius