00 / ABOUT

I build the thing
to understand the thing.

FIG. 001 / THE ENGINEER

Chris House. Staff software engineer in Memphis, thirteen years in, currently building a greenfield internal developer platform at St. Jude Cloud.

That is the job. The rest of this is weekends. My kid was learning to read music, so there is a rhythm game, and then a piezo sensor on a real drum once the on-screen version got old. I also do a lot of woodworking: a dresser, a bookcase, a deck, a set of stairs. And thirty-odd browser games.

ROLE
Staff Engineer / Platform
AT
St. Jude Cloud
SINCE
13 years
BASE
35.1495° N, 90.0490° W

01 / WHAT I AM ON RIGHT NOW

Running the models
on hardware I own.

Five of my last six posts are one arc: a self-hosted LLM behind a Cloudflare Tunnel, Redis giving the agent a memory, an ESP32 on my desk that listens and answers, MCP wiring it to real tools. No vendor in the middle, nothing leaving the house.

It is the same question the day job asks: what does a platform owe the people building on it? Only here the blast radius is one spare room.

FIG. 002 / STRUCTURE, EXPOSED / 104 LINESCLICK TO RESAMPLE
ARTICLES
36
SERIES
3
GAMES
32
TOOLS
18

02 / FOUR WAYS IN

Start anywhere.

01Field notes

Platforms, Kubernetes, self-hosted AI. Three multi-part series and a lot of mistakes left in on purpose.

02The arcade

Thirty-two browser games, no install, no account. Some are for my kid. Some are just because.

03Woodworking

Furniture, cutting boards, a deck. The same curiosity with a little more sawdust.

04Résumé

The formal version, for anyone who needs dates and job titles.