Hi, I'm Chris.
I've spent my career designing, managing, and selling data center solutions and building the software systems to support them. Everything started at the wonderful company named EMC. Now I'm starting an adventure into AI — and I'm doing it in the open.
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Experiments, prototypes, and honest notes from learning AI as an architect. What I tried, what worked, what didn't.
My Story
The professional path that got me here.
Case Studies
Architecture decisions from real systems, with the trade-offs.
Blog
Longer thoughts on software, architecture, and AI.
Latest from the Lab
What Is My Context Window
Determine what my context window and how to use it
How Many Tokens Am I Spending?
Call an LLM API from scratch and understand token usage.
Build a small retrieval-augmented (RAG) Q&A
Build a small retrieval-augmented (RAG) Q&A over my own case studies.