Scott Haleen
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Engineering Leadership & Technical Strategy
Sets technical direction across teams and stays hands-on building distributed services, AI agent platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
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Engineering Leadership & Technical Strategy
Sets technical direction across teams and stays hands-on building distributed services, AI agent platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
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Engineering Leadership & Technical Strategy
Distributed Systems Architecture · AI & Agent Engineering · Application & Platform Design
Engineering leader setting technical direction across projects and teams, connecting business priorities with architecture and hands-on delivery. Builds AI agent platforms, distributed services, and cloud infrastructure, from execution tooling and network connectivity to Terraform-managed Kubernetes environments and application prototypes. Combines research, technology selection, and engineering review with direct implementation, balancing delivery, reliability, and operating cost.
now.log
- 01Building and refining PX, a personal peer-to-peer file exchange.
- 02Exploring native applications, connected devices, and interactive 3D experiences.
- 03Writing about agent-assisted engineering and how software interfaces are changing.
~/projects/
A recent selection of personal tools and experiments, separate from professional work.
Userspace WireGuard handshake, ping, and DNS verification.
blog.h4lx.com/projects/wgprobe/Explicit lifecycle orchestration for Go applications.
blog.h4lx.com/projects/go-app/A small issue tracker shaped around agent development loops.
blog.h4lx.com/projects/issues/A macOS view of nearby Bluetooth Low Energy activity.
blog.h4lx.com/projects/nearby-signal/~/writing/
- 01PX: File Exchange Between Trusted Devices
Persistent device relationships, bounded file access, and explicit delivery contracts.
- 02The Website Has to Earn the Visit
User-directed agents make the provider's interface an optional way to access a service.
- 03The Exit Path Is Part of the Feature
Complete workflows include the transitions that follow rejection.
principles.md
- Start with the outcome
- Let the business problem and user need guide the technical investment.
- Make the tradeoffs explicit
- Balance delivery speed, reliability, operating cost, and the ability to change.
- Stay close to the implementation
- Use prototypes, code review, and operational feedback to test architectural decisions.
- Design for failure and change
- Make ownership, recovery, and system boundaries clear before they become expensive problems.
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