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Updated September 2026

Thomas G. Wolf

Software / Infrastructure / AI Engineering Specialist

U.S. Citizen · Eligible for security clearance

Greater Seattle Area · 801-746-9685 · hire.me@wolfhouse.me · GitHub · LinkedIn

Summary

Software and infrastructure architect with 12+ years building high-availability AI infrastructure and scalable software systems from the ground up. Deep expertise in AI infrastructure: (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, autonomous agents, (Model Context Protocol) tool integration, and containerized microservices; with a track record of leading teams through complex DARPA and DoD programs. Balances cloud and on-premise architecture while holding to strict NIST 800-171 / CMMC 2.0 compliance.

Skills

  • AI Infrastructure: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, AI agents, agent sandboxing, MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool integration, , OpenCode, Hermes Agent, containerized job orchestration, Open WebUI
  • Application & Solution Architecture: API design, service decomposition, integration patterns, monolith-to-modular modernization, workflow-oriented applications, system design for scale, design review and architecture standards
  • Programming Languages: Python, TypeScript, Bash, C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, Lisp, TCL
  • Cloud & Platform: AWS, Azure, Hetzner Cloud, Proxmox, QEMU, (including greenfield buildouts), , Helm, Docker, , Traefik, Apache , Bind9, Cloudflare, systemd, Linux and CLI administration
  • Automation & Infrastructure as Code: , Ansible Molecule, Terraform / OpenTofu, Packer, cloud-init, (mise-en-place), GitOps (), CI/CD pipelines (Gitea Actions), end-to-end testing
  • Observability: Grafana, Loki, Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, InfluxDB, Gatus health monitoring, ntfy alerting
  • Identity, Endpoint & PKI: Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Authentik single sign-on (SSO) with enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA) and forward-auth, OpenLDAP, SSSD, step-ca private certificate authority (CA) / public-key infrastructure (PKI), cert-manager, Certbot / Let’s Encrypt, secrets injection
  • Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, CloudNativePG, Redis, SeaweedFS distributed storage, Gitea, N8N, Synology High Availability, S3 buckets, NFS servers
  • Security & Compliance: NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0 (Levels 2–3), risk analysis, incident response, Kubernetes hardening (Pod Security Admission, audit policy, etcd encryption at rest), fail2ban, firewalld / UFW, WireGuard
  • Leadership & Delivery: Team building, mentoring, process design, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams, project planning

Experience

Founder & Principal Consultant, Salish Sea Wolf LLC

Washington (Remote) · May 2026 to Present

Independent infrastructure and AI-engineering consultancy; sole principal.

  • Founded an independent infrastructure and AI-engineering consultancy, handling scoping, delivery, and operations as sole principal.
  • Retained on contract by Silicon Technologies Inc. after departing the company, at their request, to continue supporting and extending the infrastructure I built there.
  • Build custom AI agents and agent harnesses for a confidential client, targeting specialized industry workflows.
  • Perform LLM evaluation and training-data work through DataAnnotation: prompt design, response ranking, and authoring reference code solutions across model comparisons.
  • Design and operate a production K3s / Argo CD GitOps cluster on Hetzner under a single-operator model: Authentik SSO with enforced MFA; step-ca private PKI; CloudNativePG; and a Grafana / Loki / Prometheus observability stack.

Software & Infrastructure Architect, Silicon Technologies Inc.

Midvale, UT · July 2014 to May 2026

Analog integrated-circuit design software for DoD/DoE and commercial workflows.

Third employee; grew from individual contributor into the architect and leadership role as the company scaled, owning company-wide development operations across both software and hardware design.

  • AI & High-Availability Infrastructure: Engineered and deployed high-availability Kubernetes clusters and RAG-backed AI agents that bridged legacy engineering tools with modern containerized workflows.
  • Scalable System Architecture: Architected a CAD application suite that cut analog integrated-circuit design time by 10x, integrating Intel and IBM IP and services alongside other PDK and EDA tool vendors; independently evaluated by Sandia National Laboratories and Mayo Clinic.
  • Technical Leadership: Grew the Software and IT department from a solo role to a team of eight, establishing rapid-development policy and mentoring junior engineers through high-pressure delivery cycles.
  • DevOps & Automation: Ran full-stack operations with Ansible, Terraform / OpenTofu, and Proxmox, building the CI/CD pipelines in Gitea Actions on a self-hosted Gitea forge and automating distributed storage (SeaweedFS) for arbitrary container jobs.
  • Security & Compliance: Led the organization-wide infrastructure program to meet NIST 800-171 / CMMC 2.0, and successfully defended against a remote intrusion attempt.
  • Product Modernization: Transformed a single-file monolith into a modular, market-ready product, securing approved U.S. patents for novel design methodologies.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Served as technical liaison to federal agencies (MDA, U.S. Air/Space Force), enterprise partners (Intel, Sandia, Globalfoundries) and co-presented at industry conferences to drive product adoption.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Western Governors University · August 2019 to October 2023

Certifications

Selected Achievements

  • Built the Software & IT organization from a single seat into a multidisciplinary team, and wrote the procedures that made it the company’s highest-throughput group.
  • Delivered production systems at six-nines availability.
  • Inherited the flagship product as a single-file monolith with no function decomposition and shipped it as a supportable, sellable commercial product.
  • Took a loosely assembled small-company IT setup and rebuilt it as enterprise-grade infrastructure at NIST 800-171 / CMMC 2.0 readiness.
  • Balanced company infrastructure across cloud and on-premise for both cost and resilience.

References

Available on request. Three Silicon Technologies Inc. references (Software Director, Engineering Manager, and Software Engineer peer) have given consent to contact.