Army veteran and independent AI researcher. I architect cognitive systems and direct AI to build them — my project AEGIS is a full-stack AI platform with custom Triton inference kernels (152 tok/s on AMD 7900 XTX), hierarchical memory retrieval validated to 10M tokens at 98.9% accuracy with no lost-in-the-middle degradation, and a constitutional alignment layer with six moral evaluation gates and a case-law precedent store. I build on AMD/ROCm because efficient inference shouldn't require NVIDIA hardware. Currently building an AAC app for my nonverbal autistic daughter. No degree, 759 tests passing.