I started as a solar crew lead and became the youngest crew leader in company history at SolarCity (later Tesla). Fourteen years later, I'm superintending commercial rooftop solar — running crews, megawatts, and deadlines.
Somewhere along the way I started writing software for the problems the field actually has: time tracking that doesn't lie, daily logs that write themselves, closeout docs that survive an audit. The office builds software for the office. I build it for the roof.
Luminosity Field Services
Solar O&M, founder-led. Module-level thermography warranty testing, panel removal & reinstall, and commissioning / QA support for commercial solar — Maryland-based.
luminosityfs.com →Agents in the Trades
AI agents for the trades. A weekly newsletter and field guide to practical agent workflows for solar, construction, and field operations — what each one does, what it costs, and where it breaks.
agentsinthetrades.com →Maryland Journeyman Electrician license
Studying the NEC and putting in the hours. The license makes the superintendent better and the software smarter.
Any Agent, Any Model: Run Your AI Coding Setup From an iPhone
One small cloud server, your phone as the window, sessions that survive disconnects — with any AI coding agent and any model. The vendor-neutral version of the pattern.
Oct 2026Own Your AI: The Case for Open-Source Models
Closed models rent you intelligence by the token. Open models let you own it — privately, at flat cost, tuned for your work. The smart setup uses both.
Oct 2026The Firehose and the Cup
Humanity harnesses roughly 0.0001% of the solar energy that reaches Earth. The headroom isn't a physics problem — it's a deployment problem.
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