AI in production
Agentic workflows inside a solar manufacturer
At Nevados, most recently as Director of AI and Platform. Agent-driven testing and
automated review in the engineering pipeline, agent configurations version-controlled
like any other infrastructure, and research and sales workflows wired into the tools
Supply Chain, Sales and Operations already used. Several-hour processes became
ten-minute ones.
The interesting part was never the model. It was adoption, which means sitting with a
team and learning which spreadsheet they actually open on a Monday. I also wrote the
company's first AI policy and the enablement that made the rest survive without me in
the room.
Platform
Data from thousands of solar trackers
Before the AI work, I architected the operations platform behind the All-Terrain Solar
Tracker: a Node.js backend with a GraphQL API over time-series and relational data,
aggregating a whole deployed fleet into one dashboard.
Plus quoting and estimation tooling for complex projects in Python, MATLAB and Node.js,
and a batch pipeline on Cloud Run Jobs that replaced work previously done by hand.
Zentered
A small studio, still open for work
I have run Zentered as a distributed software studio
since 2017. Simplicity, performance and sustainability, with client work for Volition,
Boatim and smallstep delivered through it.
It is still the right vehicle for a fixed-scope AI pilot, an architecture review, or a
few months embedded with a team that needs the first version to work.
talk about a project →Zentered Studios
A product spin-off, building Roadbook
Zentered Studios LLC is the product side of
the studio, spun out to build Roadbook: an EV road-trip
planner for people who plan around chargers, parks and trailheads rather than gas
stations.
Every place a user searches runs through a durable multi-step AI pipeline that
reconciles sources, writes summaries and structured facts, and attributes images. It is
where the green energy interest and the agentic work meet, on my own time.
