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    "name": "Kristopher L. Porath",
    "label": "AI Infrastructure and Agent Operations",
    "email": "kitporath@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://kitporath.com",
    "summary": "I design, direct and verify production AI infrastructure. I built KWS, a private cloud in my workshop, and used AI agents to build and run most of what sits on it. I do not write or read application source code. I set the architecture, specs and permission boundaries, and I check every change against CI and the running system before it merges.",
    "location": {
      "region": "Michigan",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "kitporath",
        "url": "https://github.com/kitporath"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "kitporath",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kitporath"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Independent",
      "position": "AI Infrastructure and Agent Operations",
      "startDate": "2025",
      "summary": "Self-employed, remote. Architected, built and run KWS, a production private cloud, and directed the build of Workbench, Groundly and Hirdforge.",
      "highlights": [
        "Published an error analysis of AI agents doing infrastructure work: 13 claims audited, 8 with a material error (3 mine). An agent's reported 80% CVE reduction (210 to 41) rescanned at 28% (210 to 151).",
        "Led recovery from a total power loss in about 1h50m with zero data loss, and an RKE2 and Cilium upgrade across six nodes that closed 24 critical CVEs with zero workload outage.",
        "Held AI agents to least privilege: credentials on one host, a scoped Terraform identity, and agents on one Vault subtree with ten-minute tokens."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Prefix Corporation",
      "position": "Paint Logistics Coordinator; earlier IT System Administrator, Program Manager, Team Lead and Supervisor",
      "startDate": "2010",
      "summary": "Automotive manufacturing operations and IT. Led up to 35 people for quality, throughput and on-time delivery."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saleen Inc.",
      "position": "Team Lead",
      "endDate": "2008",
      "summary": "High-performance automotive finishing."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Oakland Community College",
      "area": "Business Administration, Management and Operations",
      "studyType": "Coursework, no degree",
      "startDate": "2002",
      "endDate": "2004"
    }
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "Google Cybersecurity Certificate",
      "issuer": "Coursera"
    },
    {
      "name": "Simplilearn Cyber Security Expert Master's Program (completion certificate)",
      "issuer": "Simplilearn",
      "date": "2024"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Platform",
      "keywords": [
        "Kubernetes (RKE2, Talos, k3s)",
        "ArgoCD",
        "Helm",
        "Terraform",
        "Ansible",
        "Gitea Actions",
        "OpenNebula/KVM",
        "Proxmox",
        "Prometheus",
        "Loki"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Security",
      "keywords": [
        "Keycloak OIDC/SSO",
        "HashiCorp Vault",
        "External Secrets",
        "cert-manager",
        "Cilium",
        "Falco and Talon",
        "Suricata",
        "Trivy",
        "gitleaks"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI systems",
      "keywords": [
        "llama.cpp",
        "ExLlamaV3",
        "LiteLLM",
        "quantization and KV-cache tuning",
        "MCP",
        "Agent Client Protocol",
        "CI-gated evals",
        "claim-versus-measurement auditing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "KWS",
      "description": "Production private cloud: 19 monitored hosts, six-node RKE2, about 120 pods, 23 Argo CD applications, HA Vault, nine tested security layers, multi-GPU inference.",
      "url": "https://github.com/kitporath/kws"
    },
    {
      "name": "Workbench",
      "description": "Daily coding-agent app. About 52,200 lines of Go and 535 tests (private repository, counted 2026-10-29). Per-thread git worktrees, approval gates, Landlock-sandboxed plugin harnesses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Groundly",
      "description": "Self-hosted research notebook with span-level citations or abstention and a CI-gated citation eval. About 9,200 lines of Go, 69 tests, Apache-2.0, not yet released."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hirdforge",
      "description": "Multi-agent engineering platform. Public extract of 67,115 lines of Go.",
      "url": "https://github.com/kitporath/hirdforge"
    }
  ],
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    "notes": "Figures are dated in the sources linked from https://kitporath.com/evidence. The 90% and 80% local-model split is the author's own accounting, not a measurement."
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