AI + intelligent systems
Agents, model routing, memory, API integration, and applied AI experiments.
↗PERSONAL R&D PORTFOLIO / 001
I build useful things
where ideas meet the real world.
I’m Joel Albon: a hands-on R&D systems builder working across AI, infrastructure, automation, hardware, and practical invention. I like problems that need more than a nice diagram to work.
OPEN TO SELECTED R&D / PRODUCT WORKELKVILLE, ILLINOIS
SUBJECT / 001 STATUS: BUILDING
R&D / PRODUCT / SYSTEMS HUMAN IN THE LOOP
02 / WHAT I ACTUALLY DO
I work across the stack.
The whole system.
Most projects start because something I want either doesn’t exist, costs too much, or works badly enough that I want to know why. The work usually crosses software, infrastructure, and physical reality before it is useful.
03 / SELECTED WORK
Things with a real
record behind them.
Operational / Infrastructure
Compound Compute Fabric
A hands-on Proxmox and local-services environment for compute, storage, automation, and resilient experimentation.
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Prototype / AI / Automation
Hermes Orchestration Agent
An evolving agent-infrastructure experiment exploring model routing, memory, tools, telemetry, and practical workflow support.
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Active / Vision / Sensors
Local Vision + Telemetry
Local-first camera intelligence and event-driven automation built around useful signals instead of surveillance theater.
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Active / Automation
Automation Systems
Event-driven workflows connecting services, notifications, AI-assisted work, and the unglamorous steps that usually get done by hand.
View project ↗04 / ABOUT THE WORK
Systems should survive more than the pitch deck.
The through-line is simple: connect the technical layers, test the assumptions, and leave enough documentation for the next version to be better than the last.
05 / EXPERIENCE
Field work, systems work,
and the space between.
2018 – Present
Senior Researcher & IT Consultant
Albon Tech R&D2010 – Present
IT Support Specialist
Freelance / Project-Based IT Support2004 – 2008
Field Technician
Multiband Corporation06 / R&D PIPELINE
Ideas are cheap.
Useful experiments aren’t.
Research, prototypes, concepts, and the strange technical questions that have not earned a finished-project page yet.
Explore R&D ↗07 / OPEN CHANNEL
Building something unusual?
For technical collaboration, prototyping, infrastructure, automation, or a problem that needs to leave the whiteboard.
Contact Joel ↗