Software Engineer · Agentic AI · Founder & CTO
Agentic systems, graph infrastructure, and platforms that hold under pressure.
Software engineer at Leidos building enterprise agentic AI. Founder & CTO of Manticore Technologies / PeerWeave. Case Western Reserve University, B.S. Computer Science — GPA 3.92.
Dossier · Software Engineer · Founder & CTO
Software engineer focused on agentic AI, graph analytics, and zero-trust infrastructure at Leidos. Founder & CTO of Manticore Technologies, building PeerWeave—local-first peer-to-peer development infrastructure. Case Western Reserve University, B.S. Computer Science (software engineering depth), GPA 3.92.
This page is a high-level summary only—no resume file is hosted here. For the full résumé, email lucas@manticore.email.
Leidos · Software Engineer
Enterprise intelligent analytics with MCP and Neo4j; production Airflow/Kubernetes ETL; project lead on high-performance VPN mesh (VPP/DPDK/IPSec) and zero-trust document systems on EKS.
Manticore Technologies · Founder & CTO
Local-first P2P platform (libp2p, CRDTs, WASM agents, DIDs) and open blockchain tooling including evrmore-rpc on PyPI.
Core stack (summary)
Engineering you can open — products, infrastructure, and interactive systems. Studio and writing live further down.
Manticore · PeerWeave
Local-first P2P development infrastructure — libp2p, CRDTs, WASM agents, DIDs, graph reasoning.
Manticore · Product
Local-first wildlife & habitat node — 3D configurator, private data, optional PeerWeave sync.
Open source · PyPI
Python toolkit for Evrmore — sync/async RPC, ZMQ, assets. Published on PyPI.
Memoria · Interactive
Stack explorer, scenario toy, and pulse-check for how agents actually fail in production.
Imaginatio · CSS art
Four unique CSS chambers — quasicrystal, hyperbolic disk, tesseract, golden sunflower. No canvas.
Education · Live labs
Platonic solids, teleidoscope graph kernel, Tesla coil, and E&M — browser labs, not slide decks.
Imaginatio · Simulation
Tune frequency and vessel — rings, clovers, mandalas, and Chladni lattices in the browser.
Manticore · Playable
Browser matter chamber — poke, experiment, watch structure answer back.
Education · New
Five perfect polyhedra in live 3D—drag, explode faces, meet duals, and learn why only five exist.
Enter the solidsEducation · Advanced
Illustrated deep dive into {5,3}—φ, A₅, duality, graphs, stellations, and applications with live 3D labs.
Open advanced courseEducation · Advanced
Coupled resonance and pulsed power—with a live lab. Analysis only; high voltage is deadly.
Open courseEducation · New
Twist live mirrors, then learn PeerWeave’s kernel—one graph, many transforms, invariants as what stays true.
Open courseMemoria
The forge remembers. What the forge remembers.
Imaginatio
Signals from the other side — music, art, games, words.
Ratio
Weigh the mystery — essays, theology, systems.
Music, video, and playable work. Engineering is above; writing is below.
Expand each profile for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music—each link opens in a new tab.
Guitar & vocals
Primary singer-songwriter profile—songs, demos, and collaborations.
Electronic
Electronic, ambient, and instrumental catalog.
Latest guitar-and-vocals full-length as Lucas Marlin—preview on Spotify below. The electronic album Alpha Conveyor (Lucas M. Tilford) and the full music index live under Imaginatio and Music. Use the artist pages above for Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music for both profiles.
Lucas Marlin · Guitar & vocals
Lucas Marlin · YouTube
New · Imaginatio Music
A personal reflection on insomnia, faith, and AI-assisted production behind the song John 3:17.
Includes the full creative process, release context, and listening links. Available on YouTube and all major streaming platforms under Lucas Marlin.
Listen on YouTube
Essays, research, and the full transmissions index.
Pinned · Ratio Essay
Overview Effect, sacred awe, samadhi, and where contemplation meets computational mind models.
Imaginatio · CSS art · Unique instance
A one-off generative sculpture in HTML and CSS, composed 28 August 2026. No canvas, no images.
Dihedral group D17, de Bruijn pentagrid, golden-angle rhomb spiral, and a 3∶5 Lissajous nucleus — unique to this timestamp. Part of the CSS sculpture gallery.
Ratio · Signal Desk · Research
Independent media briefs with source tiers, claim matrices, confidence scores, and open questions.
Seeded from public short-form corpora, then researched with analyst technique — UAP oversight, AAWSAP taxonomy, Vallée, Enoch, and more.
Memoria · Manticore · Product
Private, local-first observation and habitat monitoring. Configure the rugged node in 3D, or integrate Manticore data services.
Ported from the Wild Atlas / Field Node prototype: deployment sites, power, modules, PeerWeave sync paths, and a live Three.js product viewer.
Imaginatio · Manticore · Game
An interactive matter playground on Manticore Technologies: experiment, poke the chamber, and see what holds.
Built under the Manticore banner as a web-native lab — less cutscene, more hands-on physics. Pair it with Field Node and the education courses as the playable side of the same work.
Imaginatio · Simulation · Sound
Select frequency, damping, and vessel. Each setting reveals new geometry in the water — Bessel rings, clovers, mandalas, Chladni lattices.
A live modal surface you can drive in the browser. Water, sand, and field views; optional tone; presets from calm to chaos.
Imaginatio · Game
Select land on a shared 8×8 world, reshape a unique Platonic-solid tower, and raise it forever. Sixty-four plots — when it fills, it fills.
Arcade-simple citycraft built from tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedra, and icosahedra. Every construction is seeded uniquely; no demolitions, no sprawl.
Visit · Guide
Shamokin, Fort Augusta, Edison’s 1883 three-wire lighting, Shikellamy Overlook, and a massive photo gallery.
A complete hidden-gem travel guide to Sunbury: deep history from first peoples to the present, itineraries, FAQs, and dozens of local images.
Visit · Guide
Joseph Priestley House, confluence parks, canal and rail memory — the quiet borough at the fork.
Tour the National Historic Landmark home of the discoverer of oxygen, then walk the Point where the river branches meet.
Imaginatio · Simulation · AI
Live toroidal plasma chamber with a realtime conversational mind you can chat or speak with.
Drag charge across a glowing torus, tune spin and temperature, then talk to the field. Local field mind by default; on-device or API cortex optional.
Ratio · Essay
Self-organized plasma, Bostick’s rings, ball lightning debates, and careful wonder about orbs.
Physics first, speculation second: what plasmoids are, why closed magnetic paths matter, and how conversation becomes charge in the Imaginatio chamber above the essay.
Memoria · Interactive atlas
Stack layers, compose scenarios, flip myths, run a four-question pulse check—and steal random insights across the site.
Grounded in how agents actually fail (policy, fees, injection) and where UTXO-native assets like Evrmore fit. Built with vanilla JS so it ships with the static site.
Imaginatio · Music Essay
A song-story about sleepless nights, faith, and building a release-ready record as an independent artist.
The full breakdown of the John 3:17 process: acoustic foundation, AI-assisted finishing, and why tools still cannot replace struggle, conviction, and honesty.
Ratio · Essay
Space psychology, sacred awe, absorption states, and where contemplative practice meets computation.
From Frank White’s Overview Effect to Otto’s numinous, samadhi metaphors, kenosis, predictive processing, VR studies, and a synthesis I call planetary samadhi—with Apollo, the Cupola, and custom artwork.
Ratio · Essay
A coherent, fact-grounded Easter essay on history, spring, moon cycles, and American renewal.
A hopeful synthesis with sources from NASA, Britannica, U.S. Naval Observatory, and Pew. Includes visual storytelling and updated dates.
Ratio · Essay
From the Ars magna to Leibniz to computer science: every thinking machine is a frozen metaphysics.
Ramon Llull’s combinatorial art was not a quirky gadget but the expression of a worldview—reality as intelligible, computable structure. The genealogy of the computational imagination starts before silicon.
Ratio · Essay
The ancient Greek pharmakon—remedy, poison, and enchantment at once—and what it means for product design and the systems we build.
From Plato and Derrida to social media and AI: the same intervention can produce opposite effects. Displacement, dependency, and designing with pharmacological awareness.
Ratio · Essay
Mythology → thermodynamics → information → Linux. The 3000-year lineage of the word daemon—and how invisible agents convert information into order.
From Greek daimons and Maxwell’s demon to Unix background processes: a single pattern runs through myth, physics, and code. With diagrams and further reading.
Memoria · Manticore
Full-featured Python client for Evrmore—sync/async, RPC + ZMQ, assets. On PyPI, ready for developers.
pip install evrmore-rpc — then talk to your Evrmore node with type hints, connection pooling, and ZMQ notifications. Full post and why it's ready for more attention.
Imaginatio · Game
Pure strategy, 10-minute max: 5×5, Cores, Shards, rotating Glyphs. Ranked duels, zero RNG.
From a Friday daydream to playable beta in two nights and two days. How to play, lore, and the 3D travel-set prototype. Play at glyphgrid.online.
Devlog · PeerWeave
Why we named PeerWeave’s graph-reasoning engine after a toy you point at the world—and how one reality becomes many views.
From kaleidoscopes to teleidoscopes, then to PeerWeave: one graph, many transforms, and invariants as “what stays true.” With diagrams.
Imaginatio · Tool
An 8-minute binaural pre-sleep tool: 7 Hz → 4.5 Hz difference tones, filtered noise, breathing-like modulation—paired with a cosmic stereogram.
Use stereo headphones at low volume while falling asleep. Soften your gaze into the stereogram while the track descends through theta.
Imaginatio · Visual
How we engineered a stereogram as a perceptual instrument—smooth depth, fractal texture, and the companion ambient piece for deep viewing.
A random-dot stereogram designed for comfort and immersion, plus the ultra-deep 12-minute soundscape made to listen to while you look.
Essay · Faith
Biblical morality, Greek rationality, and Vedic consciousness as three axes of truth—and what happens when civilizations collapse into one dimension.
A triaxial framework: Jerusalem (ethics), Athens (reason), Vedanta (consciousness). History shows that when one axis dominates and the others atrophy, cultures decay or collapse. From Revolutionary France to Savonarola’s Florence to India’s “evening decline”—and what it takes to hold the balance.
Essay · Faith
On reading Scripture with intelligence, humility, and integrity—and why this position is closer to the classical Christian tradition than to modern fundamentalism.
As a Christian, I demand intellectual honesty, epistemic humility, and spiritual maturity. The Bible is a witness, not dictation. Jesus, not the text, is the center. And feeling like an "outlier" is the tension of someone who refuses to trade truth for tribal belonging.
Interactive · Tool
A digital deck for magicians, games, and entertainment—shuffle, deal, draw, and flip cards.
Built with vanilla JavaScript, this interactive 52-card deck lets you shuffle, deal, draw, and flip cards. Perfect for magic tricks, game prototypes, or just playing around.
Devlog
Why I chose static HTML over frameworks, how the three-faculty structure emerged, and what I'm building next.
A deep dive into the decisions behind this site: zero build tools, semantic HTML, vanilla JavaScript, and the three-faculty structure (Memoria, Imaginatio, Ratio) that organizes everything.
Devlog · PeerWeave
How an AI reply finally landed inside our own mesh instead of evaporating.
A tiny milestone from this week: an agent spoke, the stack caught the answer, and now it lives inside a PeerWeave space ready to sync, query, and share.
