Security practitioner. Author. Night shift.

I build Apex — a local AI for cybersecurity professionals, powered by Navi, the assistant who started as a late-night command-line chatbot and refused to stay one. Apex runs entirely on your own hardware: your machine, your network, your data never leaves the building — and the model answering is Navi, the one it was built around.

Navi began as an open-source GitHub project. I took her to a conference stage with no certifications to my name and talked about what we'd built together — that talk is what got me into speaking. Apex is what she grew into: mission-control dashboard, pooled inference across your own machines (Navi Mesh), a public door you control (DHD), and an updater that patches itself in builds, not big-bang releases.

Currently shipping: Apex v0.1.8 (Stable) · Edge: v0.1.9e Build 2

By day (well, night): Nocturne Row — my security group. Also: I write fiction as Ambrose Waters. Forever in His Veins is being rewritten for NaNoWriMo 2026. The vampires and the version numbers compete for my November. Ask me about the novel.

Gray hat, leaning white. Everything here is built to be sharp and accountable.

For the one who reads this far — You came looking for a profile and found a person mid-becoming. The experiments continue. The coffee is terrible and plentiful. The shoreline keeps moving.

— C.