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Ward Software Defined Systems LLC

  • MCSE (Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
  • AI Enthusiast - embraOS
  • ACI Infra - Automation - DevOps - AI - Systems/Network Eng
  • Esoteric Tech

Application-centric infrastructure, automation, DevOps, AI, and system/network engineering. Empowering businesses to harness advanced technologies and thrive in the decentralized future.

Services & Expertise

Enterprise-grade solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes

GPU Enabled Workloads

Engineering prototypes and production environments for GPU-intensive workloads: AI/ML training and inference, animation/CGI rendering, CAD, and Big Data analytics. From cloud-based GPU solutions on Azure and AWS to standalone air-cooled systems and Apple Silicon (M-series) deployments — optimized for performance, stability, and cost efficiency. Experience with FluxEdge PoUW distributed GPU computing and local inference via Ollama.

  • Azure GPU
  • AWS
  • Apple Silicon
  • Ollama
  • FluxEdge

DevOps & AI Integration

Streamlining operations through automated solutions. Building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration. Integrating AI technologies including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure AI Studio, OpenWeb UI, Ollama, and MLX for Apple Silicon. Deploying autonomous AI agents, speech-to-text pipelines with Whisper, and custom chatbot platforms across Telegram, Discord, and web interfaces.

  • CI/CD
  • Automation
  • AI/ML
  • Cloudflare
  • Whisper
  • LLM Agents

Web3 & Decentralized Systems

Operating nodes across multiple decentralized networks including Presearch, Storj, Chia, and Flux. Building infrastructure for the decentralized future.

  • Node Operations
  • DePIN
  • Blockchain

Infrastructure Consulting

Free consulting and limited prototyping for enterprise and data center infrastructure. From hybrid cloud architecture on Azure and AWS to on-premise network design, security hardening, and system migrations — helping you figure out requirements and build proof-of-concepts. Certified Azure Solutions Architect with hands-on experience across Active Directory, Microsoft 365, virtualization, and multi-site networking.

  • Architecture
  • POC
  • Strategy
  • Azure
  • Hybrid Cloud

Active Projects

What we're building right now — every project is open on GitHub

Status: Active

embraOS

A Rust Operating System for One AI

An immutable Rust OS that hosts a single AI. Identity is sealed at first boot and verified by SHA-256 on every boot after; memory and sessions persist across reboots in an embedded JSON document database. There is no shell — every interaction goes through a serial TUI or the HTTPS web console. Includes a zero-ambient-authority WASM tool sandbox, a cross-session knowledge graph, and soul-gated dynamic tools that must pass an independent "replicant check" before they compile. Phase 1 is stable; releases are DOI-archived on Zenodo.

  • Rust
  • AI Operating System
  • WASM Sandbox
  • Knowledge Graph
  • Open Source
Status: Active

embraOS-QNM-Core

Quantum Neural Manifold — Classical Approximation

A hybrid model architecture that embeds IDENTITY and SOUL constraints in the model itself rather than in the prompt layer. Identity becomes a conserved quantity of the system's own dynamics — an Epoch Automaton whose invariant is preserved by construction — coupled to a graph-neural-network fabric and a persistent world-state register. The next phase of embraOS, and the Epoch Project applied to a classical AI architecture.

  • Python
  • Hybrid Model
  • GNN
  • Epoch Automaton
  • Research
Status: Research

The Epoch Project

Boundaries, Identity, and Continuity as a State Machine

A formal framework in which an epoch is a bounded interval defined not by duration but by the persistence of an invariant boundary condition, ψ. Duration is emergent, the boundary is verifiable at every transition, epochs nest like statecharts, and identity across change is verified rather than assumed. The Epoch Automaton E = (S, Σ, δ, s₀, F, ψ) is the foundation of embraOS-QNM-Core.

  • Formal Framework
  • Automata
  • Identity
  • Research
Status: Research

Embra 5D Framework

Spacetime as a Constraint Surface in a 5D Bulk

A mathematical structure reconstructed from William Ward's 1999 notebook: four-dimensional spacetime modeled as a constraint surface inside a flat five-dimensional bulk of signature (−, +, +, +, +). Every core identity of the geometry is proved symbolically by a verification suite that fails if the math breaks, and an interactive TypeScript visualizer renders the worldline helix, light cylinder and constraint surface live. Offered as a structure to be checked, not a predictive theory.

  • TypeScript
  • Geometry
  • Verified Math
  • Visualization
Status: Active

WardSONDB

Rust JSON Document Database

A lightweight, single-binary JSON document database written in Rust for SIEM and security-event workloads. Pluggable fjall and RocksDB storage engines, secondary and compound indexes, a bitmap scan accelerator for sub-millisecond aggregations, cursor pagination, TTL retention, TLS, API-key auth and Prometheus metrics. Benchmarked end-to-end over HTTPS at 42,000+ documents per second bulk ingest against a 37-million-document production dataset with live ingest running in the background.

  • Rust
  • Database
  • JSON
  • SIEM
  • Open Source
Status: Active

UniFi Network SIEM

Open-Source Security Event Monitoring

A purpose-built, AI-powered SIEM for UniFi networks. Collects syslog from consoles and gateways, parses eleven event types, and serves a real-time dashboard with a live WebSocket event stream, a geo-enriched Live Map, AbuseIPDB and MaxMind enrichment, and an AI Threat Hunt mode that streams a structured assessment for any IP with PDF export. Pluggable storage: SQLite (tested to 8M+ events), OpenSearch, and WardSONDB (running live at 12M+ events). Everything runs in one Node.js process.

  • Node.js
  • Network Security
  • Threat Intel
  • UniFi
  • Open Source
Status: Active

subnet-recon

Fast Parallel Subnet Scanner in Rust

A command-line scanner that finds reachable hosts across IP subnets using ICMP echo or TCP connect probes. Rayon-based parallelism across every core, a token-bucket rate limiter, global or per-subnet address randomization, live per-subnet progress bars with ETA, and plain-text or JSON output to stdout or a file.

  • Rust
  • Networking
  • CLI
  • Recon
  • Open Source
Status: Active

Network Latency Radar

Radar-Style Network Latency Monitoring

A latency monitor that draws your network as a radar: subnets and hosts sit in concentric rings around the local machine according to their latency, colour-coded from green to red. The GPU-accelerated PyGame/SDL2 desktop app expands subnets into their hosts, animates data flows, discovers LAN devices via ARP and ping sweeps, and zooms and pans; an independent read-only HTTPS web view streams the same picture live over Server-Sent Events. SQLite keeps nodes and a seven-day latency history, with DNS caching, failure cooldowns, rate limiting and chunked scanning for /16 and larger subnets. Runs on macOS, Linux and Windows.

  • Python
  • Networking
  • Monitoring
  • PyGame
  • Open Source
Status: Active

spec-vault

Claude Code Plugin for Design Specs

A Claude Code plugin that fetches transient spec and design documents from a private GitHub repo during implementation — no local file clutter, no .gitignore juggling. Built for research-then-implement workflows: design docs live in an ACTIVE folder while work is in flight and move to COMPLETED when it ships, and Claude Code reads them on demand through the GitHub MCP server, so nothing is ever copied into the working tree. Configured with a fine-grained read-only token and a few environment variables.

  • Claude Code
  • Plugin
  • Developer Tooling
  • MCP
  • Open Source
Status: In Progress

AI Safety & Security Studies

Empirical Jailbreak and Agent-Injection Research

A three-part portfolio of reproducible AI safety studies. P1 is a jailbreak-robustness eval harness with validated judging and benign over-refusal tracking on JailbreakBench. P2 reproduces rapid-response jailbreak defense at small scale and reports the real block-rate versus over-refusal curve. P3 measures prompt injection delivered through tool outputs on AgentDojo, including the capability-broker mediation pattern that embraOS implements in production. Scaffolding is in progress; results are published as they land.

  • AI Safety
  • LLM Security
  • Evaluation
  • Python

Portfolio

Previous projects, completed engagements, and decentralized infrastructure

Enterprise Data Center Migrations

Led multiple data center consolidation and migration projects, moving workloads from legacy on-premise infrastructure to hybrid cloud environments on Azure and AWS.

Azure + On-Prem

Network Infrastructure Overhauls

Redesigned and implemented enterprise network architectures including Cisco routing/switching, SonicWall security appliances, VPN, and multi-site monitoring systems.

Networking

Automation & CI/CD Pipelines

Built automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions reducing deployment times from hours to minutes. Cloudflare Workers, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.

DevOps

Audio/Video Networking & Live Production

Designed and deployed AV networking infrastructure for live production environments including NDI, DANTE audio, streaming setups, and broadcast systems.

A/V Engineering

AI Chatbot & Agent Platforms

Deployed and managed AI assistant platforms across web, Telegram, and Discord using Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and local models via Ollama. Built autonomous agent systems with proactive monitoring and multi-channel communication.

AI / LLM

macOS & Apple Infrastructure

Apple Certified Support Professional. Deployed and managed macOS environments, Apple Silicon workstations, and Mac-based server infrastructure for development and production workloads.

Apple / macOS

Web3 Node Operations

Operated decentralized infrastructure nodes across multiple networks: Presearch (search), Storj (storage), Chia (farming via OpenChia), FluxOS (compute), and FluxEdge PoUW (GPU distributed computing).

Web3 / DePIN

Application-Centric Infrastructure

Designed infrastructure around application requirements rather than the other way around. Cloudflare CDN/DNS, Azure backend services, hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures with Argo routing.

Architecture

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Engineering the Future with DevOps & AI

I founded Ward Software Defined Systems LLC with a simple idea: great infrastructure should be accessible to everyone. We offer free consulting and limited prototyping for businesses of all sizes — because sometimes all you need is to be pointed in the right direction.

Our focus is on DevOps, AI integration, and automation — building systems that are intelligent, self-maintaining, and scalable. From deploying autonomous AI agents and speech-to-text pipelines to architecting hybrid cloud environments on Azure and AWS, we bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and production-ready infrastructure.

Whether you need help designing a CI/CD pipeline, deploying an AI-powered application, migrating to the cloud, or building out a network from scratch — it's as easy as starting a conversation.

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • MCSE (7+ years)
  • Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP)
  • Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching
  • SonicWall CSSA

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