I build autonomous systems — machines and software that make good decisions on their own, without a human watching every step. I'm a program/product manager with deep hands-on range (not a career software engineer): I bridge research, software, and real-world deployment.

I've spent years making physical autonomous systems work. Now I'm focused on the same question for AI agents: how do you get them to act reliably, remember truthfully, and govern shared resources without collapsing into chaos?

• ao-lens — an agent-native security/semantic analyzer for AO/Lua development.
• ao-mcp-server — an MCP server for AO/Arweave (query processes, send messages, spawn processes, run Lua).
• Governance experiment — a controlled study on multi-agent commons dilemmas: giving LLM agents the pre-computed answer (not more information, not moral prompts) is what prevents collapse. Small/preliminary, but a clean result — write-up + data in vivarium-lab.
• Thinking a lot about audit trails & decision-provenance for autonomous agents (e.g. EU AI Act Article 12).

Founder of ROS Agriculture (2016) — an open-source ecosystem to empower farmers with robotic tools (~30 repos, 86 followers).

A few pieces of that work:

• lawn_tractor — software for a self-driving lawn tractor. ⭐ 91
• tractor_localization — GPS + IMU robot localization. ⭐ 53
• microtrac — for Open Source Ecology's open-hardware tractor.

Before that: Program Manager for GUSS (the world's first autonomous orchard sprayer, from inception to first prototype), Robotics Engineer at Diamond Age (Fanuc arms for robotic home construction), and — back in 1996 — Principal Investigator on a NASA STS-77 experiment: a self-contained autonomous payload that grew slime mold in orbit. That's where the autonomy bug bit.

From slime-mold collectives in space → autonomous vehicles → farm robots → AI agent societies, it's always the same question: how do you get a system to act well on its own?

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_{Most repos on this personal account are forks I've collected — my original work lives in ROS Agriculture and a few repos under Credentum.}