Computer scientist · AI researcher & engineer · Software systems architect

I build production software systems, research and apply AI, and write the books and music in between. Founder of Exteran Studios, an independent creative studio working across software, books, and music.

• 🔭 Currently building Vai — a provider- and deployment-independent platform for AI agents that do real technical work
• 🎓 M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology — specialization in Artificial Intelligence
• 🏗️ Founder of Exteran Studios (est. February 3, 2022)
• 📍 Jackson, Mississippi
• 📫 Reach me at inquiries@exteran.com

Systems architecture. Unattended access-control and parking systems — JavaFX kiosk applications, license-plate recognition pipelines, payment and gate-control services, SQL Server data layers, and the Windows/Linux deployment tooling that keeps them running in the field. Most of this work lives in private repositories, so it never shows up on this profile.

AI systems. Agent orchestration, durable task execution, policy and permissions, retrieval, and applied LLM engineering — currently focused on Vai (below).

Web platforms. Ten live sites, built and operated end to end (below) — Astro front ends, Cloudflare Workers and Pages, Node services, and in-browser code execution.

Vai — Versatile Agentic Interface. One agent platform — cloud, hybrid, or fully your own.

A provider- and deployment-independent platform for building and running AI agents that do real technical work, through natural conversation and structured, durable tasks, under layered human-defined permissions. Aimed at developers and technical teams who need agents that do persistent, structured work rather than disposable chat.

• Edition parity. Self-hosted runs the same logical core as cloud and hybrid — no feature tiers, no required connectivity back to Vai.
  • Cloud — a managed deployment of the same core, hosted and operated by Vai
  • Hybrid — a Vai-managed control plane with your own execution nodes doing the work
  • Self-hosted — customer-run, every core function, zero network dependency on Vai
• Model-neutral by design. Built in C#/.NET to run local, cloud, and customer-supplied models side by side instead of locking to a single provider.
• Durable, not ephemeral. Structured long-running tasks are the unit of work, not disposable sessions.

Early in development — no release date yet. A product of Exteran Studios.

→ vai.ai

I write and produce music — Hard Rock, Grunge, Americana, Gothic Americana, singer-songwriter, folk, Christian, and alt-country — released through Exteran Studios.

Releases

• This Long Broken Road — a dual album: every track performed in both a male and a female voice, through two directed AI vocal personas, Dawson McCoy and Sadie McCoy
• This Big Broken World
• Concertos on This Long Broken Road
• Relax & Unwind

Every song is written and composed by me. The AI personas are directed instruments interpreting blueprint performances — not random generators.

→ Music hub · Press kit

Bestselling novelist with over half a million copies in global distribution, published through the legacy Late Nite Books imprint and the current Exteran Studios imprint — fantasy, horror, and near-future science fiction.

• The Mages of Bloodmyr — fantasy/horror series
• The Survivor Chronicles — post-apocalyptic series
• Nonfiction and whitepapers, including work on creativity and AI

→ All books · Amazon author page

I teach programming for people starting from zero.

• codeBetter with Brian — programming instruction on YouTube (companion files)
• learntowritecode.com — concepts → pseudocode → real languages
• codersrock.com — practice problems that run in the browser, no account required

📫 inquiries@exteran.com