Infrastructure · AI Operations · Harness Design
From constant firefighting to quiet machinery.
I'm Ethan Jensen. I build self-healing infrastructure, license-free platforms, and the harnesses that let AI act on real systems — carefully.
What I do
Infrastructure that looks after itself.
A lab that heals itself
Alerts become deduplicated tickets. Tickets become sequenced maintenance plans. Approved plans execute and validate themselves — with a human hand on the gate. The first operator-approved autonomous repair has shipped.
Read the case study →Harness design
Powerful automation — including LLMs — wrapped in deterministic gates, shadow modes, and rollbacks. The model proposes; verified machinery disposes.
The method →License-free systems
ERP, CI/CD, SIEM, observability, secrets, identity — a full company stack with zero seats rented.
See the stack →Docker on Android
A custom kernel and a full container runtime on a consumer phone — because the platform said no.
How →Hermes, an agent brain
An IT-ops agent designed around one inverse principle: the LLM is never alone in the action path.
The architecture →Trust, engineered
Autonomy is earned, not assumed.
New automation runs in shadow mode and gets graded against reality. Only measured accuracy unlocks the execute path — and the same metric can revoke it. That's how an AI loop earns the right to touch production.
Sovereignty
Every dollar of SaaS is rent.
VMware became Proxmox. Datadog became Prometheus and Wazuh. Salesforce became Odoo. The integrations between them — the part vendors charge for — is the part I build. Roughly $33k/yr of list-price software, replaced at $0, owned outright.