Full stack engineer, musician, and birdwatcher. I build infrastructure tooling, contribute to compilers and languages, hack on hardware, and maintain a lot of FOSS.
After spending a year completely offline (late 2023 – end 2024), I'm back to building in the open.
Recent Posts
What have I been up to these last few months?
I am off to do cool stuff at Bates College! 🚀 I am pleased to shared I have accepted position as a Systems Analyst at Bates. That’s right- I’ve moved from...
I wrote a mutual aid mental health service
Check out this project here: Tetrahedron.gay is a mutual aid mental health group informally continuing the structured partial hospitalization Triangle Program.
AccuWix Report CLI
I wrote this lil command line application while riding on a bus to and from New York City- find the project repository here at jesssullivan/AccuWixReport. 😸...
Lets write a simple, efficient and fast flask-based image server in an afternoon
….that uses lanczos resampling to serve optimized cached photos. Find this project on GitHub here: jesssullivan/FastPhotoAPI Interact with this API graphically...
Turkey Probe
A spur-of-the moment turkey thermometer with dubious accuracy, questionable code and unhelpful complexity made of random gahbage. Uses Steinhart-Hart equation...
Ventures
Funded, stealthmode. Tinyland is big, more to come very soon.
Massively parallel, provable, ownable agent infrastructure. 130+ agents, 5 custom models, Chapel + Go + K8s.
Independent Gov. contractor in GIS & ML.
Shelved rapidfab / HPC hackerspace initiative in NY.
Ultrasonic phantom network gel synthesis. Currently on mfg. pause.
Clients
Experience
| Role | Organization | Period | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Systems Analyst (DevSecOps) | Bates College | 2024-Present | Legacy modernization, Ansible extensions, Apache Solr, ACME/SAML, GitLab AutoDevOps, RKE2 + Rancher, Haskell + Python tooling |
| CV/ML Software Engineer | Macaulay Library | 2018-2022 | Merlin Sound ID, fine-grained ML annotation, classification APIs, TensorFlow/NumPy/Flask/WASM |
| Fabrication Lab Manager | Cornell CALS | 2021-2022 | Rapid fabrication curricula, OpenSCAD, Fusion 360, C++ tiler development |
FOSS
Original Projects
Languages & Compilers
quickchpl
Property-Based Testing for Chapel
RemoteJuggler
Multi-identity git credential resolver in Chapel
pixelwise-research
WebGPU glyph compositor demo in Futhark
Infrastructure & DevOps
GloriousFlywheel
Recursive IaC flywheel for GitLab
Ansible-DAG-Harness
LangGraph DAG harness for Ansible iteration cycles
searchies
SearXNG infrastructure with Caddy & OpenTofu
Hardware & Maker
XoxdWM
Eye-gesture VR & BCI XWayland Emacs WM
TurkeyProbe
ESP8266 thermistor probe with WebSocket UI
hiberpower-ntfs
ASM2362 NVMe FTL corruption recovery research
Web & Apps
tetrahedron
Mental health social service application
timberbuddy
Control package for Amish sawmill robotics
FastPhotoAPI
Flask image server with Lanczos resampling
ML & Data
Contributor & Maintainer
Community
- RESF Community Member — Rocky Enterprise Linux Foundation
- First Fellow — D&M Makerspace, Plymouth State University (2017-2020). Taught Advanced GIS Programming & Intro to Electromechanics.
- Membership Chair & 3D Printing Captain — Ithaca Generator (2020-2022)
- COVID-19 PPE Manufacturing — Coordination across New England makerspaces
Beyond Code
Photography
Worked with aerial photographer Alex MacLean and Mike Nyman. Wrote youth photography curricula for Mass Audubon. Work featured at Newton Public Library, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, and more.
Music
20+ years of guitar (custom 9-string electric, 12-string acoustic). 25+ years of piano/organ on a rotary Yamaha organ.
Hospitality
Bartender & event organizer at Modern Alchemy Game Bar in Ithaca. Organized Goth Nights & art shows. Bagel baker at Tandem Bagel Co.
"If there were no computers I'd probably be a baker, a minstrel or a bard."