packetloss404@void:~$ whoami
> Ian Walmsley — Platform Engineer · Forward Deployed AI Engineer
> Enterprise infrastructure · customer implementation · AI platforms
> Iowa · Remote
packetloss404@void:~$ cat ~/.site
> https://www.packetloss404.com # what I build, and why
> https://ianwalmsley.me # the career side
Customer-ready AI platforms, end-to-end — multi-provider LLM routers (hand-rolled, no SDKs), MCP clients & servers from scratch, Voyager-style agent loops, sandboxed tool runtimes, RAG, and agent evaluation inside synthetic worlds: closed-sandbox internets, simulated enterprise networks, and autonomous Minecraft civilizations. Production-minded: real test suites, security (SSRF defense, credential vaults, hash-chained audit logs), and durable persistence.
A career in enterprise infrastructure underneath it — VMware/Omnissa, Azure, identity, storage, networking, and the automation that replaced the manual version of all of it. I work from customer constraints through architecture, implementation, and production support. That's why these systems ship with permission engines, audit logs, and sandboxes instead of a shell call and optimism.
TypeScript · Rust · Python · Go · PowerShell · LLM orchestration · MCP · agents · evals · simulation
Building and deploying the Packet suite end-to-end — PacketADE (agent development environment), packetcode (terminal coding agent), and PacketAgent, the worker runtime behind them: bounded, budgeted, checkpointed LLM workers running in a network-isolated sandbox with effect receipts and digest-chained crash recovery. Open to remote-first Platform Engineering and Forward Deployed AI roles, with onsite work considered for the right team and location.
packetloss404.com · PacketADE · PacketAgent · packetcode · mc-fleet-bot
[ www ] packetloss404.com ·
[ cv ] ianwalmsley.me ·
[ in ] linkedin ·
[ gh ] github
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