Quotidie est ratio plenae laetitiae in miraculo vitae
Every day is the reason for complete joy in the miracle of life
I build the full stack — from kernel to UI — entirely in Rust, entirely from scratch.
An operating system. A text editor. An AI coding assistant. A blockchain. A borrow checker. An agent orchestrator. Neural networks. Programming languages. Simulators for synthetic life.
All written in Rust. All free. All open source.
Personal stretch goal: Build every tool I rely on — nothing I use should be something I couldn't have written myself. Full ownership of the stack.
I give all of this away for free as a shoutout to all the known and unknown open source hackers out there who influenced me, either directly or indirectly.
These three represent my core thesis: if you use it every day, you should own it.
| Project | What | Why It Exists |
|---|---|---|
RegicideOS  |
AI-native Linux distribution — Gentoo + BtrFS + Cosmic Desktop, every layer optimized for ML | Because an OS that doesn't understand GPUs is obsolete |
| openlibertas |
Terminal-based AI coding assistant with multi-provider, MCP tools, multi-agent delegation, voice mode | Because your coding assistant should be yours — free forever, no subscriptions |
| neoxide |
Neovim-inspired terminal editor with LSP, tree-sitter, Lua plugins, splits, registers, macros, marks | Because every developer deserves an editor that matches how they think |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| RegicideOS | AI-native Rust Linux distro — Gentoo + Cosmic Desktop, GPU-optimized kernel | Rust |
| ZFG | Zero Fugazis Linux — minimal, from-scratch Linux build | Shell |
| stasis-borrow-checker | A Rust borrow checker written in Rust — ownership, moves, lifetimes, all from scratch | Rust |
| cuda-oxide-demos | 25+ GPU demos: ML inference, N-body, matrix ops, KV cache, attention — all in Rust → CUDA | Rust |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| openlibertas | Full AI coding assistant — 15 agent personas, MCP tools, voice, session management | Rust |
| kairo | Agentic orchestrator — model-agnostic routing, ReAct agents, WASM sandboxing | Rust |
| zerochain | Multi-agent orchestration via plain text files — no brokers, no databases, just files & watchers | Rust |
| Routage | Async LLM router — sub-millisecond model dispatch, zero GC pauses | Rust |
| Xfiles | Plan 9-inspired agent communication hub with quantum-mode AI routing | Rust |
| synapse-tutor | Neural network from scratch — learns XOR via backprop, no ML frameworks | Rust |
| mnist-nn-rust | MNIST digit classifier from scratch in Rust using ndarray | Rust |
| tiny-llm-template | Minimal LLM project template for rapid experimentation | Python |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| neoxide | Neovim-inspired terminal editor — LSP, tree-sitter, Lua plugins, splits, macros, marks, diff mode | Rust |
| opencode-memento | Context preservation across AI coding sessions — no more repeating yourself | TypeScript |
| opencode-caveman-plugin | Aggressive language compression for AI — grunt mode with preserved accuracy | TypeScript |
| opencode-poke-plugin | Lightweight agent wake-up / poke plugin | TypeScript |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| etch | Immutable timestamp chain — 1024 payloads/block, Scrypt PoW, Ed25519, libp2p gossip | Rust |
| etch-gen | AI-powered blockchain generator using Etch architecture | Rust |
| usdai-gpu-vault | Solana program — collateralized GPU lending, NFT minting, permissionless liquidation | Rust |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| OpenLatinium | Programming language + VM inspired by Latin — because code should be beautiful | Python → Rust |
| latinium-roguelike | Turn-based dungeon crawler written entirely in OpenLatinium | Shell |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| xenobot-sim | Synthetic biological machine evolution — XPBD physics, LBM fluid, genetic algorithms | Rust |
| drone-sim | Human pilots + AI co-pilots flying together in real-world cities | Rust |
| shuttle-tile-sim | Space shuttle tile thermodynamics simulation | Rust |
| Project | Description | Lang |
|---|---|---|
| openarcanum | RPG character generator — for humans and AI agent personas | Rust |
| top-github-vibe-coders | Leaderboard for developers shipping AI-assisted code | Rust |
Not everything is scratch-built. Some things are battle-tested patterns you can actually use in production:
- Kubernetes — 100+ deployment patterns, Cilium eBPF, multi-cluster federation
- LLM Infrastructure — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, multimodal benchmarks
- CI/CD — Dagger Go pipelines, container-native builds, security scanning
- IaC — Pulumi (Go/TypeScript) for Azure & AWS multi-tenant infrastructure
- Rust — Matrix ops, CLI boilerplate, async patterns that don't leak memory
git clone https://github.com/awdemos/demos.gitReproducible. Observable. Composable.
I design systems from first principles. Small tools that do one thing well and compose cleanly — the Unix way, but for the AI era.
- I don't trust black boxes. If I can't audit it, I don't ship it.
- I prefer code over YAML. If it can be code, it should be code.
- I believe in AI sovereignty. Models you own, data you control, infrastructure you can audit.
- I value memory safety. Not because Rust told me to, but because debugging segfaults at 3am is a waste of a life.
- I'm a huge fan of tried and true principles and underappreciated technologies. I can work on everything from a PDP-11 to FreeBSD and post-Linux kernels with equal fluency.
My formative years were spent on Slashdot and deep in open source culture — that ethos of transparency, collaboration, and building in public is still how I work today.
| Now | AI Factory Lead at a Fortune 500 — led technical collaborations with NVIDIA, building AI infrastructure that ships reliably, safely, and fast |
| 2024–2025 | Lead AI Infrastructure Engineer, Helix Center for Applied AI |
| Earlier | Cycorp Inc. — reported to Dr. Doug Lenat, symbolic AI for defense & healthcare |
| Way back | Sold Linux supercomputers · Built Top 500 HPC systems · Infrastructure at OpenDNS & Wikimedia Foundation |
| Certifications | NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD · AI Infrastructure · InfiniBand · NVIDIA Pro Certifications · Agentic Certified |
| Community | Founder, Detroit AI Collective |
| Aspiration | I aspire to motivate, lead, teach, and inspire every single day and it is not so much about me but the unbelievable mentors and colleagues whose shoulders I stand on who showed me the way. I don't believe in limitations — I only believe in the limits of imagination. |
A lot of this work is anchored in one idea: the future of intelligence is unified, not fragmented.
I'm exploring what it means to build AI Pangaea — the convergence of distributed intelligence islands into a more cohesive, secure, and capable continuum:
- Superintelligent entities with persistent memory and recursive self-improvement
- Security at every layer — sandboxing, guardrails, consensus verification, confidential execution
- Memory & continuity across sessions, devices, and intelligence islands
📄 AI Pangaea: Unifying Intelligence Islands — arXiv:2509.17460
If you're working on something in the intersection of systems, AI, and security, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.
© 2026 Andrew White — Built with curiosity, caffeine, and a deep distrust of complexity for its own sake.