Attorney · AI systems builder · former conflict-zone paramedic
I run local LLMs on a multi-node Linux cluster, much to my wife's annoyance. I'm the founder and CEO of Freecase AI Inc., a company which develops AI powered case law search systems for the legal profession. I'm also an attorney practicing in the busiest court system in the US. As an undergrad I studied Chinese, history and philosophy. Before i got my juris doctor at UNM, I worked on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project in northern Afghanistan, and ran medical operations in besieged Sarajevo, as well as medical, security and safety consulting in dozens of other countries in the Mid-East, Africa and Asia for the oil and gas and construction industries. I've spent a lot of time in situations that make me wonder why people I've never met want to shoot me so badly. Usually, that only happens after they get to know me.
Local LLM & agent tooling
| Repo | What it does |
|---|---|
| Local-LLM-Launcher-GUI | Friendly GUI for vLLM and llama.cpp with hardware-aware traffic-light guidance for every setting |
| code-memory-patches | Bug fixes for code-memory — threading, duplicate symbols, sqlite-vec, logging |
| claude-skill-code-memory | Claude Code skill for the code-memory MCP server |
| codex-code-memory | Codex skill for indexing repos and semantic code search via code-memory |
| claude-usage-tracker | Dashboard tracking Claude Code and Claude.ai usage across machines — plan vs. API cost, real-time bars, historical analytics, multi-device sync |
| chatgpt-plan-accounting-tracker | Reconciles Codex usage telemetry, ChatGPT plan credits, and exported billable credit events |
| AI-Agent-Large-Email-Export-and-Search | Export 100K+ emails from Yahoo Mail and triage with local LLMs |
| LLM-Monitor-Reports | Session statistics and reporting for LLM cockpit monitoring |
Legal AI & document tooling
| Repo | What it does |
|---|---|
| legal-doc-processor | OpenClaw skill: convert legal documents into PII-safe JSONL datasets for RAG and QLoRA fine-tuning |
| codex-legal-doc-processor | Codex skill for legal document classification, PII stripping, RAG/fine-tuning output, and provenance manifests |
| delaware-incorporation-skill | Multi-agent skill for Delaware corporation/LLC formation — forms, drafting, and filing guidance |
| startup-business-planning | Founder-facing startup planning skills for formation, governance, compliance, and early-stage legal basics |
Productivity skills
| Repo | What it does |
|---|---|
| organize-home | Multi-platform AI skill for organizing your Linux home directory — backup, categorize, rename, HTML index |
Merged pull requests in upstream projects:
| Project | What landed |
|---|---|
| unslothai/unsloth | Studio fixes for chat auto-load, model-loading status polling, llama.cpp args, editable installs, and navigation-context loss (#5900, #5901, #5902, #5909, #6677) |
| openclaw/openclaw | LLM idle timeout escalation to model fallback; MiMo multi-turn tool-call fix (#80449, #81589) |
| kapillamba4/code-memory | Threading crash, duplicate symbols, logging, and embedding insert fixes (#11) |
| daggerhashimoto/openclaw-nerve | Whisper Vulkan GPU backend on Linux (#319) |
Linux Python TypeScript Ollama vLLM ROCm RAG FFmpeg Docker Proxmox PostgreSQL
My interest in machine learning isn't a recent professional pivot — it's the endpoint of a lifelong obsession that started with science fiction. Reading Heinlein's self-aware systems, Asimov's Three Laws and their elegant failure modes, Gerrold's HARLIE grappling with consciousness in real time, Daniel Keys Moran's AIs navigating a surveillance state, Iain Banks's Culture Minds running post-scarcity civilization at inhuman scale motivated me to study Machine Learning. Like most attorneys, I'm an autodidact. I started out with Dr. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Specialization through Stanford Online. I especially recommend anything by Dr. Ng as a good place to start learning about AI. I am incredibly excited to wake up every day and learn something new.
Studied Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute and Shanghai University in the late 80s (sadly, I've forgotten most of it). I then got sidetracked by an addiction to adrenaline. A decade as a medic and security consultant took me to northern Afghanistan (U.S. ACE Tajikistan-Afghanistan Bridge Project, Kunduz border region), Sakhalin Island, Angola, offshore Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Balkans — including medical operations in besieged Sarajevo and Mostar during the Bosnian War. 911 and critical care flight paramedic in the Southwest USA. Along the way I finished my degree at ASU. Then: JD at UNM, federal judicial extern, trial attorney in Chicago trying complex medical malpractice cases.
Conversational Russian and Esperanto speaker. Basic Spanish and Chinese.
Warhammer 40K · Esperanto · Central Asian history · collecting historical maps and 15th–16th century books · Beekeeping · Ham radio (KQ9I) · Philosophy · languages · travel · artisan blacksmithing · SciFi