Jay Wildes

Systems

Summary

One operator. I build systems that observe, adapt and improve themselves, and I own every layer of them — the hardware, the network, the control plane and the models. The scale below is normally staffed and it isn't; the mechanism is a set of AI workflows I built and tuned for my own use, running on hardware I own.

Work

UMBRA

A VPN service I designed and run. VLESS with XTLS Vision, on Talos Linux because the nodes should not have a shell to log into. The control plane is provider-agnostic, so a VPS company losing interest in me is a scheduling problem rather than an outage.

UMBRA · VLESS/XTLS Vision · Talos Linux · immutable · provider-agnostic

EDGE

A next-generation firewall and router I built for the network edge. Deep packet inspection at line rate. I read the logs for a year, and then something else started reading them. 10 Gbps inspected throughput (measured 2026-08-09).

EDGE · deep packet inspection · nftables · log parsing

IMMERSION

Single-phase immersion cooling, designed and fabricated. A closed loop that takes heat out through the liquid instead of the air. Larger systems are in build. 6 kW+ loop capacity (measured 2026-08-09).

IMMERSION · single-phase · closed loop · no fans in loop

VOICE

An agent that answers the phone and holds the conversation. Grounded against a knowledge base so it declines to invent an answer.

VOICE · real-time · knowledge-base grounded

ASSISTANT

Voice-accessible on site and remotely through an Android app I wrote. It holds persistent context about my life, sees through the cameras, and rewrites its own tooling. It has context I never gave it.

ASSISTANT · persistent context · vision · self-improving

PrimePC

I started by fixing other people's machines. PrimePC was a repair and consulting business I owned and ran in Lexington, South Carolina.

You learn what fails. Not what should fail, or what the datasheet says fails. What actually comes across the bench, over and over, until you can tell from the sound it makes.

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