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FINALIZING C++ freedom (Pure Rust inference baby!)
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FINALIZING C++ freedom (Pure Rust inference baby!)

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Rustacean
Fast β€’ Safe β€’ Concurrent β€” Code with purpose, deploy with confidence
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About Me

  • πŸ¦€ Proud Rustacean building the next generation of high-performance systems
  • πŸš€ Maintaining Shimmy v1.9.0 - My flagship Python-free Rust inference server (3.5k ⭐ and growing!)
  • 🎯 Contributing to ZIO ecosystem - Active PRs in zio/zio and zio/zio-http (Scala functional programming)
  • πŸ“Έ Built CrabCamera v0.7.0 - Professional desktop camera + audio plugin for Tauri (134 ⭐)
  • πŸ”€ Released ShimmyTok v0.7.1 - Pure Rust tokenizer for GGUF models, llama.cpp compatible
  • 🎬 Built Muxide v0.2.0 - Pure Rust MP4 muxer, zero deps, no FFmpeg (48 ⭐)
  • πŸ” Maintaining Gatewarden - Hardened Keygen.sh license validation for Rust
  • πŸ› οΈ Currently building Shimmy Console + a secret Rust inference library
  • πŸ’¬ Ask me about Rust, Go, Scala, AI Infrastructure, Systems Architecture
  • ⚑ Fun fact: Military precision meets Rust's memory safety guarantees
  • πŸŽ–οΈ Former 9/11 era Staff Sergeant, United States Air Force β€” 20+ years as a software engineer; devoted husband and father

πŸ”₯ Current Focus

Building the next generation of Rust-based AI tooling - Can't reveal everything yet, but big things coming in the LLM space! 🀫


🌟 Featured Projects

πŸš€ Shimmy Stars πŸ”₯

The Privacy-First OpenAI Alternative - 5.1MB single-binary Rust inference server. 3.5k+ stars! Complete, live, and the Ollama alternative developers actually want. FREE forever, no asterisks.

Rust OpenAI Compatible GGUF Zero-Config 5MB Binary FREE Forever

Language Forks Featured on Hacker News

πŸ“Έ CrabCamera Stars

Professional Desktop Camera + Audio Plugin - v0.7.0 Tauri plugin with MediaFoundation controls, synchronized A/V recording, auto-capture quality validation. 134 ⭐ and growing!

Rust Tauri Professional Controls Cross-Platform Production Ready 63 Tests

Language Version Production Ready

οΏ½ Muxide Stars

Pure Rust MP4 Muxer - Zero deps, no FFmpeg. Feed it encoded frames, get standards-compliant MP4. H.264, H.265, AV1, AAC, Opus.

Rust MP4 Muxer Video Zero Dependencies Standards Compliant

Language Version Status

�🎡 Auxide Stars

Real-Time Audio Kernel - v0.3.0 with 50+ DSP nodes, correct-by-construction graph execution, RT-safe processing. The foundation for next-generation audio applications.

Rust Real-Time Audio DSP 50+ Nodes RT-Safe Graph-Based

Language Version DSP Nodes

πŸ”Š Auxide-DSP Stars

DSP Utilities Library - High-performance DSP building blocks for Auxide, including wavetables, windows, FFT utilities, and real-time safe algorithms.

Rust DSP Utilities FFT Wavetables Real-Time Safe

Language Version Status

πŸ” ContextLite Stars

Database Freedom Platform - Live and serving retail redistributors. 27,000x faster than vector databases with SMT-powered mathematical search optimization across any database type.

Go SMT Solvers Database Agnostic Production Enterprise Clients

Language Status

πŸ› οΈ Shimmy Console (In Development)

Visual management interface for Shimmy inference servers. Currently building the next-generation tooling for local AI development workflows.

Rust Tauri AI Tooling Coming Soon

Status Secret Project


Production-Ready AI Agent Framework - Built in Rust, 97% faster than Python alternatives. Complete framework for building AI-powered automation workflows.

Rust AI Agents Production Ready 97% Faster

Language Status

🌿 Botanica Stars

Professional botanical cultivation database with AI-powered plant insights.

Rust AI Insights Data Model Open Source

Language Status


πŸ› οΈ Technology Stack

Core Languages πŸ¦€

Rust Rustacean Go TypeScript Python JavaScript PHP C++ Shell

AI & Performance

GGUF LLaMA OpenAI API SMT Solvers HuggingFace Transformers

Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker AWS GitHub Actions Linux Tauri


πŸ“Š GitHub Analytics

πŸš€ 2025 Output β€” First Year on GitHub

Metric Count
πŸ”₯ Total Contributions 2,800+
πŸ“ Commits 2,500+
πŸ”€ Pull Requests 83
πŸ“¦ Releases Shipped 133
πŸ—οΈ Repos Created 101
⭐ Stars Earned 3,782
🍴 Forks 294

Peak Day: 182 contributions (Oct 9, 2025) β€” Yeah, I don't mess around.

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Languages & Activity

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Followers Stars Commits Releases


πŸ’ Sponsors

Corporate Backer:

ZephyrCloudIO

ZephyrCloudIO

Current Sponsors:
@omarmciver | @alistairheath

GitHub Sponsors


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⭐ Star my repositories if you find them useful! ⭐

Building tomorrow's infrastructure, today.

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  1. shimmy shimmy Public

    ⚑ Python-free Rust inference server β€” OpenAI-API compatible. GGUF + SafeTensors, hot model swap, auto-discovery, single binary. FREE now, FREE forever.

    Rust 3.5k 263

  2. crabcamera crabcamera Public

    Professional desktop camera plugin for Tauri with WebRTC live preview, automated quality validation, and advanced hardware controls. Zero-config cross-platform solution for photography apps, survei…

    HTML 135 12

  3. botanica botanica Public

    Professional botanical cultivation database with AI-powered plant insights

    Rust 10 1

  4. contextlite contextlite Public

    Database Freedom Platform - Mathematical search optimization for whatever database you already have. 27,000x faster than vector databases with SMT-powered search across 8+ database types. One-time …

    Go 14 5