veighnsche

pronounced: Vinch

I’m a systems‑first builder focused on safety, determinism, and autonomy across OS tooling, AI infrastructure, and device‑level platforms. My work pairs deep systems engineering (Rust/Go, kernel/virtualization, packaging) with AI‑assisted workflows that stay auditable and reversible.

Projects

• 🚀 LevitateOS — Linux distro with Rhai packaging, local AI, and atomic A/B updates.
• 📱 Pocket-Relay — Flutter phone client for remote Codex sessions over SSH.
• 🤖 ralph4days — Tauri workspace for Claude tasks, prompts, and terminal execution.
• 🎮 rbee-keeper — Thin CLI and GUI for queen-rbee lifecycle and inference control.
• 🖥️ ewtb — Wall dashboard for agenda, weather, news, and host health.
• 🎙️ voxy — GTK4 desktop app for live microphone transcription with OpenAI Realtime.
• 📅 calendar — Go API that makes Radicale CalDAV writable through stable JSON.
• 📦 recipes — LevitateOS Rhai recipes for repeatable workstation and driver setup.
• 🔀 recipes-hevel — Hevel Rhai recipes for desktop bootstrap and software-KVM input sharing.
• 🌰 AcornOS — Alpine-based distribution with OpenRC, musl, and busybox
• 🎭 @cond8/core — TypeScript workflow framework with actor-director architecture
• 🏗️ distro-builder — Shared component system and build abstractions for ISO creation
• 📋 distro-spec — Constants for boot entries, partition layouts, user specs, and service management
• 💿 leviso — Downloads Rocky Linux, extracts packages, builds bootable UEFI ISO with EROFS rootfs
• 🔗 leviso-elf — Analyzes ELF binaries and copies library dependencies using readelf
• 📦 recipe — Package manager where recipes are executable Rhai scripts with state in the files
• 📥 recstrap — Extracts EROFS/squashfs to target directory with 14 safety checks
• 📄 recfstab — Generates fstab entries from mounted filesystems
• 🔐 recchroot — Sets up bind mounts and enters chroot with automatic cleanup
• 🗜️ recinit — Builds initramfs images without root using pure Rust CPIO
• 💽 reciso — Creates bootable UEFI ISOs from kernel + initramfs + rootfs with systemd-boot
• 🖥️ recqemu — QEMU command builder with serial console and OVMF firmware discovery
• 🎯 recuki — Builds Unified Kernel Images by wrapping systemd-ukify
• 🧪 install-tests — E2E tests that boot ISO in QEMU, install, reboot, verify
• ✅ rootfs-tests — User experience tests with systemd-nspawn for binaries, auth, filesystem
• 🔌 hardware-compat — Hardware compatibility verification for modern CPUs/GPUs
• 🛡️ cheat-guard — Runtime macros for error handling with documented invalid fixes
• 🎭 cheat-test — Proc-macros that force documentation of how tests could be cheated
• 🔍 fsdbg — Inspects and verifies archives (CPIO, EROFS, ISO) without extraction
• 🌐 docs/website — Astro static site with dark/light theme at levitateos.org
• 📚 docs/content — Structured documentation content library consumed by website and TUI
• 🖼️ docs/tui — Terminal UI documentation viewer with Ink-based rendering
• 🤖 llm-toolkit — LoRA fine-tuning scripts for training, inference, and evaluation
• 👑 queen-rbee — Brain daemon with job-based architecture that routes to hives
• 🏠 rbee-hive — Worker manager daemon that spawns workers and manages models per machine
• 💬 llm-worker-rbee — LLM inference worker with llama.cpp backend (CUDA/Metal/CPU)
• 🎨 sd-worker-rbee — Stable Diffusion worker for text-to-image generation
• 🔌 rbee-openai-adapter — OpenAI API compatibility layer with SSE streaming
• 📅 scheduler — Job scheduling and GPU allocation logic
• 📊 telemetry-registry — Metrics collection and observability
• 📦 artifact-catalog — Downloaded model artifact tracking
• 🎮 device-detection — GPU detection for CUDA, Metal, ROCm, and CPU
• 🗂️ model-catalog — SQLite model registry per hive
• ⏬ model-preloader — Background model downloading
• 📥 model-provisioner — Model installation and verification
• 💓 monitor — Worker health monitoring
• 🔢 port-assigner — Dynamic port allocation for workers
• 💾 vram-checker — GPU memory availability detection
• 📒 worker-catalog — Active worker registry
• ⚙️ worker-provisioner — Worker lifecycle management
• 🔄 auto-update — Binary self-update mechanism
• 🌍 env-config — Environment variable configuration
• 💗 heartbeat-registry — Distributed heartbeat coordination
• 📤 job-client — HTTP client for job submission
• 🌐 job-server — HTTP server for job handling
• 📝 narration-core — Logging and event narrative system
• 🔑 ssh-config-parser — SSH config file parsing
• ⏱️ timeout-enforcer — Timeout enforcement macros
• ⚡ timeout-enforcer-macros — Proc-macros for timeout annotations
• 🔧 shared-worker-rbee — Common worker utilities
• ♻️ lifecycle — Component lifecycle management
• 📜 contracts — Shared type definitions
• 🔒 security-crates — Auth, audit, and input validation crates
• 🌍 global-worker-catalog — Cross-hive worker registry
• 🌐 browser-environment — React + Vite web app with Monaco editor and AI chat
• ☁️ VHX-starterkit — Cloudflare Workers template with Hono + Preact SSR
• 🏰 sovereign-vault — Self-hosts Forgejo/Vaultwarden on Pixel 6 via AVF microVMs
• 💎 Tanzanite — Aurora (uBlue) developer workstation image with COSMIC and toolchains
• 🏆 tenxten — Proving ground for 10x engineers with native and AI-augmented certification
• 🧹 nixos-ram-tmp-lru — NixOS module for tmpfs /tmp with LRU eviction at 70% usage
• 🦀 oxidizr-arch — Atomically switches Arch toolchains to Rust replacements with rollback
• 🔀 switchyard — Auditable engine for atomic system changes with symlink swaps
• 🤖 android-root — MCP server for multi-device Android shells with hang detection
• 🥒 cukerust — Zero-config Gherkin × Rust BDD extension for VS Code

Core strengths

• Systems architecture with strong safety/rollback primitives
• Linux distro + package engineering, immutable workflows, and build pipelines
• AI infrastructure that is self‑hosted, offline‑capable, and composable
• Device‑level security/virtualization (Android kernels, AVF, microVMs)

Typical stack

• Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript
• Linux / Nix / Fedora Atomic / Arch
• Containers, microVMs, QEMU, ADB/fastboot

Project Analysis

Across the projects below, the through‑line is intentional automation with guardrails—build systems and infra that are powerful but always reversible.

• Safety‑first system mutation: Switchyard‑fs and oxidizr‑arch show a consistent pattern of atomic changes, policy gates, and rollback.
• Self‑hosted AI infrastructure: rbee emphasizes orchestration, multi‑GPU scheduling, and OpenAI‑compatible APIs without cloud lock‑in.
• OS‑level product building: LevitateOS and Tanzanite combine distro engineering with developer‑first ergonomics and offline workflows.
• Device‑scale isolation & control: sovereign‑vault and android‑root apply kernel/AVF foundations plus tooling to safely control Android hosts.
• Developer experience tooling: cukerust and qemu‑screenshot‑mcp focus on tight feedback loops and agent‑friendly interfaces.

Contact

• GitHub: @veighnsche