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This file is the entire content of the site. # # To deploy your own credentials, copy this file to resume.override.yaml # (gitignored) and edit it, or pass --data path/to/yours.yaml. # # Section types (see cv/web/app.js renderers): # prose - paragraphs # timeline - dated entries (jobs, education) with bullets # groups - named groups of short items (skills) # cards - titled items with stack, description, highlights (projects); # an optional media list renders linked video thumbnails: # media: [{title: ..., youtube: , note: ...}] # (or explicit url:/thumbnail: instead of youtube:) # list - plain bullets # columns - short items in two columns meta: version: 1 updated: 2026-07-22 basics: name: Ryan James Brooks label: Director, Composer, Architect tagline: >- Nineteen years across enterprise IT, DevOps, security, and machine learning - the last seven spent building open source frameworks, publishing research, and creating software, all in public. email: ryanjbrooks11@gmail.com phone: 281-299-2361 location: Houston, Texas links: - label: github.com/Vectorrent url: https://github.com/Vectorrent - label: linkedin.com/in/ryan-j-brooks url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-j-brooks sections: - id: overview title: overview type: prose content: - >- Versatile and effective decision-maker offering a breadth of experience within complex domains; from technical leadership, to incident response, to machine learning, programming and software engineering. Able to orchestrate large-scale efforts on a limited budget; leverages business, technical, and financial expertise to effectively collaborate with executives, team members, and the community. - >- That experience was earned in regulated, high-stakes environments - healthcare, corrections, public education, and banking - and at every scale, from a 3-person service desk to a global AWS network of thousands of servers. - >- The portfolio below is not aspirational - every project is public, solo-authored unless noted, and measurable in commits. Ask me about any of it. - id: highlights title: highlights type: cards note: >- All projects are open source and active unless noted. Commit counts are sole-author unless stated otherwise. items: - name: Praxis url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/praxis period: 2024 - present stack: [Python, PyTorch, Lightning, Flask, JavaScript, Docker] description: >- A from-scratch language-model research framework: a transformers-compatible model stack organized around 48 pluggable registries, so nearly every component - attention, routing, memory, embeddings, losses, optimizers - swaps by CLI flag. Implements dozens of recent papers (InfiniAttention, Titans memory, Mixture-of-Depths, differential attention, GRPO) plus original architectures. highlights: - ~140,000 lines of Python across 678 files; ~2,450 commits of near-daily solo development since August 2024. - Checkpoints are drop-in HuggingFace compatible; models and custom tokenizers published under the UNSAFE namespace. - Ships a zero-framework vanilla-JS training dashboard, a browser-tab distributed-training swarm, and ten conditionally loaded integrations (Hivemind, Discord, Cloudflare, W&B, more). - Auto-generates its own LaTeX research paper from live code and run data, so the paper can never drift from the source. - name: Platformer url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/platformer period: 2025 - present stack: [Terraform, AWS, Python, Bash, Ansible, Packer, Kubernetes] description: >- A novel Terraform framework for multi-account, multi-region infrastructure: services enable declaratively through composable YAML "state fragments," and consumer modules declare their needs while a root orchestrator auto-wires providers (dependency inversion, in HCL). highlights: - Distilled from production experience managing thousands of EC2 instances across a global, multi-account medical-imaging network. - ~20,600 lines of Terraform across 27 modules, plus a native terraform-test suite and 98 markdown docs. - Salt-inspired multi-account targeting DSL drives a GitHub Actions account-by-region deployment matrix. - An "archivist" module scrubs and versions the codebase on every apply - which is how the repo was safely open-sourced. - name: Ghost url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/praxis period: 2025 - present stack: [Godot 4, GDScript] description: >- A procedural, deterministic music visualizer: point it at an audio file and it renders a show seeded by the audio's own fingerprint - the same song always produces the same visuals. No generative AI in the render path. highlights: - ~30,000 lines of GDScript; 43+ visualizer scenes, a composable physics force registry, and a software-3D forced-perspective pipeline with depth sorting. - Headless video export at up to 4K with synced audio, plus a built-in chroma-key masking editor with undo/redo and multi-track lanes. media: - title: Like Clockwork youtube: -b2M7VSYIFU note: No AI was used in this song or video. - name: ode url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/ode period: "2024" stack: [JavaScript, TensorFlow.js] description: >- Language models from scratch, in JavaScript: transformers, RNNs and state-space models with custom optimizers (AdamW, Lion, Prodigy), samplers (top-k/top-p/Mirostat), tokenizers, and a hand-rolled training loop. 1,090 commits. - name: vtx url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/vtx period: 2023 - 2024 stack: [Python, Docker, Petals, Hivemind] description: >- A declarative, Dockerized machine-learning experimentation platform: YAML-defined training and inference of small models across architectures, with distributed learning over Petals and Hivemind, bot integrations, and a 42-area experiment lab. 1,692 commits over two years. - name: src.eco url: https://src.eco period: 2020 - present stack: [TypeScript, GUN, Tone.js, Cloudflare, Terraform] description: >- A decentralized, peer-to-peer communications platform and AI sandbox, live since 2020. Browser-native P2P data over GUN, generative audio, and connections into the rest of this portfolio's model-serving ecosystem. - name: ext url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/ext period: "2024" stack: [JavaScript, Chrome MV3] description: >- A browser extension for large-scale synthetic training-data collection - service worker, content scripts, and popup UI. Used by the community to feed the datasets behind the models above. - id: experience title: experience type: timeline items: - role: Full Stack Developer (Self-employed) title: Full Stack Developer org: Original Design location: Houston, Texas start: Nov 2019 end: present bullets: - Self-employed; deep, sustained focus on software development, DevOps, AI and data science. - Architect of several dozen open source projects, including API servers, AI agents, ML frameworks, and SaaS/social media integrations (see highlights). - role: Platform Architect title: Platform Architect org: Intelerad Medical Systems location: Montreal, Quebec (remote) start: Apr 2025 end: Mar 2026 bullets: - Designed, wrote, and deployed automated tooling supporting backend infrastructure across a global, multi-account AWS network of thousands of EC2 instances (medical imaging, HIPAA). - Built self-service development processes with Python, Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS - the experience that seeded Platformer (see highlights). - Provided ML adoption support and guidance to multiple teams, building novel proofs-of-concept. - Participated in the company's first hackathon, and won. - role: Senior DevOps Engineer title: Senior DevOps Engineer org: Aventiv Technologies location: Houston, Texas start: Jun 2019 end: Nov 2019 bullets: - Worked within Satellite Tracking of People (STOP) - a FISMA-adjacent electronic-monitoring platform serving the corrections system - and brought all of its Windows and Linux servers under configuration management. - Translated internal documentation into an ITIL-inspired service portfolio and knowledge base. - Delivered a multi-year "Roadmap to DevOps" strategy; developed and taught an "Intro to DevOps" course for tier-1 employees. - role: Consultant, Identity and Access Management title: IAM Consultant org: CyberDefenses location: Houston, Texas start: "2017" end: "2019" bullets: - Hired into the security operations center (SOC); promoted to the IAM team soon after. - Formally trained in Identity and Access Management ecosystems, tooling, and processes; acted as the unit's DevOps champion. - Consulted for clients in regulated industries, including banks and public school districts. - Built customer automation projects, including a password leak-detection system for a large public school district, integrated with RapidIdentity. - role: Manager of Information Systems title: Manager of Information Systems org: American Surgical Professionals location: Houston, Texas start: "2012" end: "2017" bullets: - Managed a 3-person IT service desk; lead technical authority for 5 years while the company grew from 75 to ~400 employees. - Architect of all network infrastructure, endpoint management, software delivery and user-provisioning processes. - Responsible for business continuity, security, HIPAA compliance, and nearly every other aspect of IT in a healthcare company. - role: Field Support Technician title: Field Support Technician org: Wright Business Technologies location: Houston, Texas start: "2010" end: "2012" bullets: - Tier-2 support and customer account manager within a Managed Service Provider; promoted from help desk to field technician with dedicated on-site customers. - role: IT Technician title: IT Technician org: Microtech Services location: Holt, Michigan start: "2007" end: "2010" bullets: - Hardware and software support; installed wireless radios and satellite WAN solutions in rural areas. - id: open-source title: open-source type: list note: >- Upstream contributions, verifiable in each project's history. items: - "**Hivemind** (learning@home): ~54 commits - Python 3.13 support, pydantic 2 migration, GPU backward-pass fixes for mixture-of-experts layers, averager race-condition fixes." - "**lightning-Hivemind**: maintainer-level work on the Lightning HivemindStrategy - IPFS integration, persistent peer identities, pydantic migration." - "**Meta byte-latent transformer (blt)**: 23 commits - packaged bytelatent as an installable module, flex-attention toggle, realtime entropy-patching fix, gradient-flow fixes." - "**pytorch_optimizer**: OrthoGrad state-management and AdamG stability fixes, TRAC fixes." - "**TensorFlow.js**: GELU activations and Random* preprocessing layers." - "**IBM ModuleFormer**: transformers activation functions, gradient checkpointing support." - "**HuggingFace transformers**: merged SiglipVisionModel fix." - "**TokenMonster**: Node.js 18+ compatibility fix." - id: achievements title: achievements type: list note: >- A sampling of enterprise-scale work, from present-day cloud fleets back through two decades of infrastructure ownership. items: - Automated infrastructure at the scale of thousands of EC2 instances - a global, multi-account, multi-region AWS network - then distilled that experience into Platformer, an open source Terraform framework anyone can inspect (see highlights). - Delivered in regulated, high-stakes environments across four industries - healthcare (HIPAA, at a global medical-imaging platform and a surgical services company), a FISMA-adjacent electronic-monitoring platform serving the corrections system, public school districts, and banks. - Designed, deployed and ran a clustered private cloud - Hyper-V, a storage area network, fault-tolerant networking, and 100+ virtual machines (2012-2017, built on-premise and single-handedly). - Built a full desktop provisioning and patch-management architecture (SCCM PXE imaging, WSUS, BitLocker), and managed MDM for hundreds of devices via Apple DEP, MaaS360, and Intune. - Led large-scale migrations, including GE Centricity for healthcare practice management and on-premise Exchange to Office 365. - Built an end-to-end monitoring stack - Elasticsearch logging, Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, GitLab pipelines - on Kubernetes, provisioned into AWS via Terraform. - Developed a clustered secrets-management solution with HashiCorp Vault, deployed into Azure; automated Oracle secret rotation. - Managed point-to-point VPN infrastructure across remote offices (Cisco, Meraki, Sophos, WatchGuard, Ubiquiti) and unified a dozen systems behind SAML single sign-on with AD Federation Services. - Implemented ITIL-inspired service desks with user-facing service portfolios, twice, at different companies (Jira Service Desk, Confluence). - Ran large-scale configuration management with Salt, Ansible, and AWS Systems Manager; built consultant development stacks with Vagrant and Docker. - Designed disaster-recovery strategies spanning Veeam on-site and off-site backups and offline nightly tape rotation. - Built a binary classification pipeline that labels videos, detects events with AI, and cuts automated clips as output. - id: skills title: skills type: groups groups: - name: Machine learning items: [Natural Language Processing, Transformer architectures (from scratch), Pre-training and fine-tuning, RL post-training, Evaluation and benchmarks, Dataset pipelines and tokenizers] - name: Cloud and infrastructure items: [AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure-as-code, Networking, Storage Area Networks, Virtualization] - name: DevOps items: [CI/CD, Configuration management (Salt, Ansible), Release management, GitOps, Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch), Automation] - name: Security and identity items: [IAM (SailPoint IdentityIQ, RapidIdentity, MidPoint), SAML SSO, HashiCorp Vault, Information security, Compliance] - name: IT leadership items: [IT Service Management (ITIL), Service desk, Endpoint management and MDM, Business continuity, Project management] - name: Software items: [Full-stack engineering, API and microservice design, Godot game development, Browser extensions, Technical writing] - id: languages title: languages type: columns items: - Shell, Bash, PowerShell - Python, TypeScript, GDScript, Rust, Scheme, Guile - HTML, CSS, JavaScript - YAML, JSON, TOML - Jinja2, HCL, Helm, DSC and many other DSLs - SQL, SurrealQL, ESQL, JQL, PromQL and other query languages - Hundreds of other languages, syntaxes, frameworks and formats - id: writing-and-media title: writing-and-media type: cards items: - name: "The Blind Watchmaker: Harmonic Latent Space and the Geometry of Bias and Variance" url: https://github.com/0-5788719150923125/praxis/blob/main/research/main.pdf period: "2026" stack: [Research paper, LaTeX] description: >- A research paper on harmonic latent spaces - auto-generated from the Praxis codebase and live training runs by its "pillars" system, so figures, tables and component-gated prose always match the actual code. - name: Ephemeral Rift period: "2026" stack: [Book, Amazon KDP] description: >- "A Book in Forty-Four Movements" (as Pen & Ink). Literary fiction published on Amazon KDP in three editions - Kindle, softcover, and hardcover - built with a custom Python toolchain that renders ODT, PDF and EPUB editions from one source. - name: North Star - Fables for Fathers period: "2026" stack: [Book, manuscript] description: >- A complete ~31,000-word book of fables framed by a father and son; 18 chapters across two built editions, awaiting release. - name: The Charlatan url: https://youtu.be/x9kmvIPrcbE period: "2026" stack: [Concept album, music video direction] description: >- A multi-movement rock opera (prologue plus three acts) spanning progressive metal, dark americana, and cosmic horror, with full cinematic music-video treatments. media: - title: The Charlatan youtube: x9kmvIPrcbE - name: pen.university & ink.university url: https://ink.src.eco period: 2022 - 2024 stack: [Hugo, transmedia fiction] description: >- Twin sites hosting a years-long transmedia fiction universe - poetry, short stories, theory essays, and the personas behind the published books. - name: The Arc url: https://www.youtube.com/@The-Arc period: ongoing stack: [YouTube] description: >- Videos, music, and demos from the ecosystem above. - id: education title: education type: timeline items: - title: Associate of Technology org: Lansing Community College location: Michigan period: "2010" - id: community title: community type: prose content: - >- None of this was built in a vacuum. Seven years of community-building surround this work - it began in email threads and Reddit messages, outgrew several Discord servers, and converged into [src](https://discord.gg/bp3SuFae5M), where about a hundred people remain active today: researchers, engineers, artists, and collaborators who have followed the work across platforms since 2019. - >- Well-networked, in other words. A lot of people are aware of what we do here. I have the best people.