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richardmussell/README.md

Bridging the gap between raw hardware and intelligent orchestration.

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Leveraging a foundation in Cisco Networking, Security Operations, and Bare-Metal Automation to engineer Sovereign AI Clouds and Deterministic Edge Infrastructure. Specializing in OTEC-powered maritime compute and Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN).


Engineering Philosophy

  • Physical-to-Digital Autonomy: Hardware is an API. Using Tinkerbell and Redfish, I automate the bare-metal lifecycle from BIOS to the Kubernetes control plane, enabling "Zero-Touch" sovereign compute in inaccessible environments.
  • Deterministic Performance: Moving beyond "best-effort" cloud. eBPF, Cilium, and TSN (IEEE 802.1) are leveraged to eliminate jitter, ensuring sub-microsecond precision for high-stakes AI and industrial OTEC control loops.
  • Circular Resilience: Infrastructure as an ecosystem. Designing self-healing, "thermal-aware" clusters where AI workload scheduling is synchronized with the physical energy-cycles of the ocean.

The Mastery Stack



Global R&D Focus

  • 🌊 Marine TSN Orchestration (Maine & Tokyo): Designing "Time-Aware" architectures for submersible compute hulls. Synchronizing massive AI training blocks with Deep-Water Cooling efficiency (Maine) and floating urban energy grids (Tokyo Bay).
  • 🫎 Sovereign AI Refineries: Advancing multi-tenant AI inference through NVIDIA MIG, delivering bare-metal performance without virtualization overhead for private national-security clusters.
  • πŸ¦€ Wasm-Native Edge AI (Quintana Roo): Deploying ultra-efficient, low-power AI modules via WasmEdge on OTEC-powered sensors to monitor biodiversity and energy gradients in harsh tropical environments.
  • πŸ” Hardware-Rooted Identity: Applying CKS principles and SPIFFE/SPIRE to enforce cryptographically verifiable identity from the TPM silicon to the high-seas edge.
  • πŸ›°οΈ Inter-Orbital GitOps: Engineering ArgoCD pipelines hardened for Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN), ensuring state-consistency for maritime assets via satellite and orbital mesh relays.

Applied Engineering Roadmap

Status Milestone Focus Area
🏁 RHCSA (Red Hat) Enterprise Linux & Real-Time Kernel Mastery
⏳ CKA (Kubernetes) Orchestrating Distributed Sovereign Compute
🌊 CKS (Security) Hardening Critical National Infrastructure
πŸ¦€ CKAD (Developer) Engineering Wasm-Native AI Applications

"Architecting the digital nervous system for a sustainable ocean and private AI cloud infrastructure."

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