El Paso, Texas · 31.7619 N 106.4850 W
Independent researcher and industrial systems operator.
I build Applied Intelligence instruments that make reasoning, provenance and coherence visible. Twelve years keeping hyperscale data center and medium-voltage switchgear infrastructure alive at Microsoft, T5 Data Centers, and Schneider Electric came first.
Notes from inside the work. What I am building, what broke, what surprised me, and the occasional thing that has nothing to do with any of it.
Vitalik's good security solutions all share one shape: the user states intent in several overlapping ways and the system acts only when they agree. Here is that pattern as a computable authority function, with temporal decay and a heartbeat under it, offered for peer review.
Read →86,400 heartbeats, one per second for twenty-four hours, each written permanently to a public ledger. When the counter reaches zero the system terminates. Latin for death. The name is literal.
Read →Failure awareness.
Twelve years on industrial floors. A machine tells you it is about to fail if you know how to listen, and the cost of not listening is measured in dollars and in people. Everything since has been built for the moment a system fails.
Uptime, logging, reversible changes.
Hyperscale rooms where a change is either logged and reversible or it does not happen. Uptime is not a feature, it is the floor. That is where the habit of writing every reading down came from.
Quality gates and consequence-aware review.
Medium-voltage switchgear does not get a second draft. Every unit passes a gate, and a person signs it. The review is proportional to the consequence. That is the shape of every guardrail in the instruments.
Timing, structure, human perception.
Producing records taught structure at the scale of seconds and what attention does under a beat. A mix is an experiment in perception, and a pulse-driven game is the same experiment with a different instrument.
Operating instincts became software architecture.
The recordings on the video page are this period: chat platforms, image graphs, a mock interviewer that grades you back. The instincts from the floor turned into architecture: log everything, cite everything, keep a person accountable.
The threads, unified into instruments.
The lab is where the threads meet. Local-first, provenance-aware systems for legal, archival and industrial work. No investors. Built in El Paso, on purpose, and in public so the method is legible.
Research instruments, sites built for other people, and the practices behind both. Every link goes to something running right now, and the one that is not hosted says so.
Ask a plain question of 5,400 rare Texas documents, from the Spanish colonial records through the early 1900s, and get an answer cited to the scanned page it came off.
Occurrence records, museum collections, and the peer-reviewed literature answered as one corpus. The snapshot it answered from is versioned and dated, so a result can be reproduced later.
A cardiac monitor whose record cannot be quietly revised. Live rate and ECG on screen, each reading written out to a public chain as it arrives.
Heating control for centrally heated buildings. Clip-on sensors feed a wall-mounted controller that holds the safety logic on site, so the heat stays on when the internet does not.
A nonprofit gallery in Huntsville, Texas showing work by justice-impacted artists, and the home of the Murray Smither Archive. Artist portfolios, donations, and a members area.
Real estate brokerage in downtown Huntsville, Texas. Residential and commercial listings, leasing, short stays, and the Barefoot Ballroom venue.
How do coherent systems know what they are?
That single question runs under everything I build. Electrical grids, cognitive architectures, developmental applied intelligence, a biological signal anchored to a blockchain: each one is a different angle on the same inquiry.
Most applied intelligence ships as a cloud black box. You ask, it answers, and you take the answer on faith. I build the opposite: local-first systems where every answer traces to its evidence, a person stays accountable, and the reasoning survives the result. I learned why that matters on industrial floors, where being wrong has consequences you can measure in dollars and in safety.
Celaya Solutions is where those angles converge. No investors. No stockholders. Optimized for surprise over market fit. The point is to build infrastructure for coherence to examine itself, and to do it in public so the method is legible.
I am a Mexican American operator from El Paso. For more than a decade I kept medium-voltage switchgear and hyperscale data center infrastructure running, the kind of work where a coherent system has to fail and recover without anyone getting hurt. That taught me how real systems behave under load, and it never left me.
I do not stay inside one domain. When I describe an electrical fault I am often working out a software architecture. When I talk about a mix I am exploring how attention works. The pattern recognition is the whole job: every field contains embedded structure that only becomes visible when you change the frame.
The most personal instrument I run is the simplest. My pacemaker streams a heartbeat to a public ledger every sixty seconds. It is the human at the center of all of this, on the record, alive, and documenting. That is what this site is too.
I am not looking for employment. I am looking for the right collaboration, and occasionally the right consulting engagement.
Cross-domain synthesis. Auditable, local-first systems. Unusual problems where expertise from somewhere unexpected is the missing piece. Tell me what you are working on.
hello@celayasolutions.com ↗Twelve years keeping switchgear and data center infrastructure operational. Multi-agent systems, manufacturing intelligence, provenance-aware retrieval. Serious problems only.
Schedule 30 min ↗