The closer they parachute into burning data platforms.
Now he builds local AI stacks that measure.

I build systems that stay alive under pressure. Twenty-two years of Fortune-100 platforms taught me to read the evidence before touching the config, find the bottleneck beneath the symptom, and leave a team that can run it. Last 24 months: private RTX 4070 lab, measured ~27× local decode, production agents, bounded MCP — same diagnostic playbook as Informatica Grid/HA. Operating line: customer satisfaction is worthless; customer loyalty is priceless.
6-container Compose + CUDA on RTX 4070 / WSL2: TabbyAPI EXL3, Ollama, Open WebUI, SillyTavern, SearXNG, Redis. Flash-attention, q8 KV, GPU passthrough. Forced CUDA offload, VRAM pre-warm, LiteLLM failover. HF: huggingface.co/jpanasuk/tabby-tavern-stack.
Operator telemetry: discover, bench decode/prefill, GPU routing, SQLite, CLI + PDF. Checked-in: 1.39 tok/s → 37.47 tok/s after routing. Warm stream ~76 tok/s. github.com/jpanasuk-netizen/local_grid_suite.
Agents see Docker/network. They do not get host-root. Same Grid/HA instinct: measure the boundary, then hand the agent the boundary — not the box. Image: hub.docker.com/r/jpanasuk/dockroot-mcp.
Systems → architect → validator on local Ollama: structured output, repair retries, collision + regression. OpenClaw WhatsApp agents, 10+ skills. Multi-provider routing with cloud failover.
Also retained through 2025 for Informatica production rescue: Grid/HA, PowerExchange CDC, IDQ, v9/v10, SOW/sizing, SOAP/REST, install-to-go-live. Ivy Funds Grid/HA · Fed Reserve Philadelphia Windows→Unix plan · Farmers Insurance Linux SOAP/REST · Giesecke & Devrient Developer platform (REST/SOAP, VMs, GitHub, Docker).
Parachuted into 20 troubled accounts. Recovered 19. Milwaukee insurer: three-month outage closed in two days — one buried IBM DB2 driver setting. Mercedes-Benz +200% on the longest workflows. West Bend Mutual −50% on real-time SOAP/XML. Tuning frameworks adopted by whole client teams. Lectures at conferences and user groups on v7–v10 upgrades. Walk into the fire, find the root cause, ship the fix before C-level stops trusting you.
Simple through complex Talend 8 mappings on a live production platform. GitLab CI/CD migrations. Redshift + SQL Server. 99.99% stability. On-call incident command and root-cause writeups the next morning.
PepsiCo Grid/HA + DIH across NA/LATAM. Led v9→v10 with zero data loss. Teradata → Big Data (~40% analytics lift). Follow-the-sun.
Ameriprise EDG: IDQ, EDC, Axon. 200+ critical data elements. 24×7. Ace Hardware PowerCenter → Big Data objects and runtimes with business + QA.
Analyst → Consulting Manager. Teams of 7–14. $4M+ services in two years. Consultant of the Year runner-up (2016). v7–v10 upgrade specialist. Parachute closer: 20 in, 19 recovered.
Also: Merrill / Time Inc. SFDC lift-shift. Ivy Funds Grid/HA. Fed Reserve Philly. Farmers Linux SOAP/REST. Giesecke & Devrient — REST/SOAP, VMs, GitHub, Docker. Micron Fast Clone + Financial Force. Federal Reserve / NFCU / banking security playbooks. Cargill CFO Award Sept 2005 (six / year). Quarterly Excellence Oct 2006 — Demantra.
Technical lead, Medicare + MTM data marts and EDW test lead. Analyst → Sr. Analyst on a 4/5 review. Internal 5-star on trust.
Demantra forecasting + SAS activity-based costing marts. 24/7 support across 20+ warehouses/ODS. CFO Award Sept 2005. Quarterly Excellence Oct 2006.
St. Croix Falls, WI. Class B shooter: load, wire, shoot, tear down. Inventory Manager — $800K+ seasonal stock, turnover under 3 months, 4 full-time sales, six years of profit, ~$60k wholesale. Weekends after Cargill started Dec 2004. This is where the loyalty line was forged.
AI · Python · Docker · CUDA · Ollama · TabbyAPI EXL3 · vLLM · llama.cpp · Hermes · MCP · RAG · OpenClaw · Open WebUI · SQLite telemetry · Linux/WSL2
DATA · Informatica PowerCenter · Grid/HA · PowerExchange CDC · Fast Clone · BDE/BDM · IDQ · EDC · Axon · DIH · DVO · Talend 8 · Oracle · SQL Server · DB2 · Teradata · Hadoop · Salesforce · GitLab CI/CD · DR
EDUCATION · BBA MIS, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire · Informatica Certified Specialist: Administrator, Big Data Administrator, PowerCenter Developer I & II