About

Background

I have worked in IT for more than 25 years. I worked for service providers, in higher education, in finance, and in professional services.

Over that time I did Linux systems administration, network engineering, information security, platform engineering, and software engineering. Each of those jobs taught me the same lesson: a system is not done when it works. It is done when your team can run it, audit it, and fix it at 2 a.m.

AI work

I started to work directly with AI in 2022. Since then I have built tools and processes to put it to work safely. kamayoq, my open-source control plane for agentic operations, comes from that work.

Why I work this way

I am independent and vendor-neutral. I do not resell software and I take no referral fees. I advise and design first. When I build, the scope and the price are fixed before the work starts.

Why the Quechua names

My projects use Quechua names. A kamayoq was a specialist who kept a part of the Inca state running. A quipu was a knotted-cord record. A tambo was a waystation on the road network. The names are a reminder that good operations are old work: keep the record, guard the road, and know who is responsible.

Based in northern New Mexico, working remotely with teams around the world.

James Williams on GitHub