Nuclear

Nuclear Infrastructure

2003 - PRESENT

AT A GLANCE

Company

Allied Universal Technology Services

What it looks like when software can't fail.

Role

Software Engineering Manager

Market Reach

60% of US nuclear fleet

Domain

Most software fails gracefully. A timeout. A retry. A support ticket. The user is annoyed; the business absorbs it; the team ships a patch. In nuclear, there is no graceful failure. That changes how you think about everything.

THE DOMAIN

AUTS — known across its history as NSSC, G4S, and AUTS — is a systems integrator building 24/7 mission-critical software for US nuclear power plants. The products govern who gets through which door, what the cameras see, when alarms fire, and what operators can do about it. The regulator is the NRC. The standard is five-nines availability.

Access control · Video assessment - Monitoring

Standard

High availability - NRC regulated

THE RESCUE

When I returned to AUTS the first time, there was a product in trouble. The IP video wall system had stalled. The architecture had problems. Confidence was low. I took it over as chief architect. Rebuilt it. Solved the architectural problems. Brought it to production. It's now considered industry standard across the nuclear fleet.

Engineering discipline isn't something I learned from a book. It's something I was required to practice every day, in software that couldn't afford the alternative.

Two $1B+ acquisitions. Three promotions. Recruited back twice after leaving. Asked to hold programs together when leadership departed — without the title, without the ask, just because it needed to be done.

WHAT TWENTY YEARS BUILDS

WHAT THIS MEANS BEYOND NUCLEAR

The rigor I developed building nuclear-grade software is exactly what's missing from most AI-assisted development today. When I started building Camino, I wasn't drawing from methodology research. I was drawing from twenty years of building systems where discipline isn't optional. The domain changes. The standard doesn't.

<- BACK TO WORK

"I'm not searching for any opportunity. I'm looking for the right one."