AI systems as infrastructure

AI Systems Engineering

Agents, tools, memory, retrieval, and evals inside observable, durable runtimes.

I design production-grade architectures where autonomy, state, and side effects stay explicit, testable, and recoverable.

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AI Systems EngineeringAgents connect to memory and retrieval. Runtime, tools, evaluations, and orchestration form the operating layer around AI systems engineering.AI SystemsengineeringAgentsMemoryRetrievalRuntimeToolsEvalsOrchestration
  • agents to memory: primary
  • agents to retrieval: primary
  • memory to runtime: secondary
  • retrieval to tools: secondary
  • runtime to evals: feedback
  • tools to orchestration: feedback
  • evals to orchestration: primary
  • runtime to tools: secondary

Systems

Reusable architecture components for AI systems that need state, orchestration, retrieval, tools, evals, and recovery.

Multi-Agent Runtime

Delegation, coordination, state transitions, and typed execution boundaries for autonomous workflows.

#orchestration#delegation#coordination#state persistence

Memory Layer

Episodic memory, semantic retrieval, compression, persistence, and replayable context for stateful agents.

#episodic memory#semantic retrieval#compression#persistence

Workflow Engine

Durable execution, retries, branching, checkpoints, and human-in-the-loop gates for production AI flows.

#durable execution#retries#branching#human-in-the-loop
Open systems architecture

Design Principles

The operating model behind the work: explicit execution, measurable behavior, and infrastructure-grade reliability.

Reliability over novelty

Prefer bounded execution, failure recovery, and measurable behavior over impressive but fragile autonomy.

Stateful over stateless

Production agents need durable state, replayable context, and lifecycle control, not only prompt chains.

Observable systems

Every workflow should expose traces, decisions, tool calls, cost, and recovery paths.

Human-supervised autonomy

Autonomy belongs inside explicit gates, escalation paths, and reviewable execution models.

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