JOEY RATWAY
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE & AI
32.78° N · 96.80° W
DALLAS, TEXAS
MISSION DATA
COMMS
UPLINK ● ACTIVE
DOWNLINK ● ACTIVE
TDRS-K LOCKED · S/Ku
MISSION ELAPSED TIME
4757d 00h 00m
ISS GROUND TRACK
32.78° N · 96.80° W
ORBIT SPEED
REALTIME CABIN AUDIO
SYS ● OK   PWR ● OK   ECLSS ● OK
ENG BAY — SYSTEMS REPORT
FABRICATION & ONGOING BUILDS
ENDURANCE● OPERATIONAL
An AI coding agent that plans, writes, and reviews its own code.

Three-phase pipeline: a planner breaks down the task, a coder executes edits with tool calls, and a reviewer validates the output. Runs local LLMs on consumer GPU hardware (AMD RX 7900 XT with ROCm). Built because I wanted a coding assistant I could actually trust with my codebase.

RES PATENTS● OPERATIONAL
Patent intelligence for people who don't want to read 40-page claims.

Full-stack web app that uses Vertex AI to analyze patent claims and flag potential NPE (patent troll) activity. Built with Next.js, Postgres, and a curated watchlist of 130+ known entities. The kind of project where I learned that legal data is messier than telecom data, which is saying something.

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OBSERVATORY — PERSONNEL FILE
RATWAY, JOSEPH · SYSTEMS ENGINEER
SERVICE RECORD

12 years in telecom and cloud infrastructure at Nokia and Verizon, mostly making sure large-scale platforms stay up and building automation so people don't repeat work. These days I'm deep in AI/ML infrastructure: local LLM inference, agentic workflows, and figuring out how to make AI tools that actually work in production.

I like hard problems, ugly debugging sessions, and shipping things that other people use.

TRAINING & POSTINGS

B.S. Computer Engineering, Texas A&M ('13). Started at Nokia doing telecom platform integration and customer-facing upgrades. Moved to Verizon's cloud platform team — 8 years on OpenStack, OpenShift, and the automation that holds it all together. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. I write Python, Bash, and whatever else the problem needs.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE: AI/ML INFRASTRUCTURE — LOCAL LLM INFERENCE & AGENTIC WORKFLOWS
◄ RETURN TO CUPOLA ⭳ CREW MANIFEST (RESUME)
⚠ MASTER ALARM ⚠
CAUTION & WARNING — FALSE ALARM, RESETTING
MAINTENANCE LOG — STATION SYSTEMS
HOW THIS STATION IS BUILT
2022.03.19 — KEEL LAID

First commit. A Go server and a "coming soon" page held orbit for years.

2026.03.14 — FULL REFIT

Rebuilt as a static Astro frame. Hull: S3 behind CloudFront with ACM TLS and a Route 53 docking address. Launch rail: GitHub Actions — Playwright tests gate every deploy, smoke checks confirm orbit. Budget watchdog Lambda kills the CDN if costs ever spike.

2026.03.16 — CUPOLA INSTALLED

Three.js Earth with real day/night shading, cockpit consoles, mobile carousel.

2026.06.12 — MODULES PRESSURIZED

ENG BAY and OBSERVATORY interiors opened. Live telemetry tied in: real mission elapsed time, real ISS ground track, terminator driven by the actual sun.

CLOSE LOG
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