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SEEKING WORK | Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles (Santa Monica, Pasadena, or DTLA), California or Denver, Colorado or Remote | Relocation: Yes, to some cities | Fractional Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Technical Product Manager, or AI Consultant. Active Security Clearance (details available for serious inquiries). Bio [1], LinkedIn [2], Email [3]. Timezone: flexible - all North America or within 2 hours of GMT.

About Me: Polymath who has built products for scale ($1B+, 100M+ users), former software engineer and architect with experience at AWS, HashiCorp, PayPal, eBay, VMware, NGINX, Oracle Cloud, and SaaS startups. Founder of AI startups in 2018 and 2023. Significant enterprise experience, experience partnering with GTM teams to grow business to $1B+ outcomes, experience leading mixed teams of up to 60 (product, engineering, PMO, security & compliance) people and engineering teams of up to 75, including up to the director level. Experience with 0 to 1 startups / products, including regulated environments. Familiar with highly regulated and high security environments, including air gapped networks supporting government customers. Previously helped private equity firms with M&A analysis in the enterprise space and pharmaceutical/biotech spaces. Patent [4]. Adjunct professor at the University of Colorado (past), University of California (past), California State University (past), and University of Maryland (past)

Commercial Products that I've worked on: HashiCorp's stack (HCP, Terraform, Vault, Boundary, Nomad, Consul, Packer, Vagrant), Amazon Dedicated Cloud (all AWS products), VMware (Tanzu, CloudHealth, vRealize), NGINX, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Active.com's ActiveWorks.

Technologies: Polymath who picks up new tech quickly, but these are things that I've recently worked with: LM Studio, LocalAI, ollama, docker, terraform, vault, huggingface API, anthropic API, local LLMs (Mistral, Devstral, Qwen3 coder, Llama 3.3, hermes, gpt-oss, magistral), ToolHive, MCP, RAG pipelines (industries: Law, Outdoor Activities, Manufacturing), AWS Bedrock, GCP, AWS, R, Python, JavaScript, Go.

Recent Side Projects: Currently working on a product that supports due diligence use cases for M&A type activities using Local LLMs, RAG pipelines, and tools like LangChain, LangGraph, and a vector DB (prototype building using Qdrant). Built a prototype for an outdoor activities assistant that is being shopped to a few companies in that industry. Built a self-service analytics tool enabling non-technical users to develop complex R reports through a simple interface. Built a hybrid R and AWS Bedrock analytics tool for sifting through millions of records. Built a patent specification generator in collaboration with patent attorneys. Built a family law self-help assistant in collaboration with family law attorneys.

[1] https://tbu.bio [2] https://linkedin.com/in/tunderhill [3] t at perpetualaugmentation dot com [4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US11823501B2/