Mario
Blacksky LLC (2024 – present)
Independent AI engineering. Products shipped, clients served, and a live civic platform.
Blacksky AI product line (2024 – present)
Role: Founder & Principal Engineer.
Six AI systems designed, built, and shipped solo, from architecture through deployment.
Maurice: production RAG sales agent live 24/7, Pinecone retrieval, Llama 3.1 70B, lead scoring, CRM dashboard. Blacksky NLP: five-analyzer service licensed as a drop-in IBM Watson NLU replacement. Hola: fully offline iOS Spanish tutor, WhisperKit + Qwen3 on-device. SYMPHONY: local image generation, Llama 3.2 Vision + FLUX on Apple Silicon. Veil: patent-pending privacy-preserving camera on TinyML. SlimeHive and Ceiba: swarm robotics and self-powered infrastructure nodes; NLM paper published on Zenodo.
Tools and skills: Python, FastAPI, RAG, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Sentence Transformers, DistilBERT, RoBERTa, spaCy, Swift/SwiftUI, llama.cpp, CoreML, MLX, TinyML, PostgreSQL.
Sectors and areas: AI / ML, Python, Cloud, Search, APIs / Headless.
Blacksky LLC (2025)
Role: Founder.
Company founded.
Rap Research Labs (Feb 2026 – present)
Role: Lead Engineer.
Full backend data pipeline for a music intelligence platform.
Multi-source scrapers, normalization and dedup, Blacksky NLP enrichment, PostgreSQL, React admin for editorial curation. Geolocation pipeline linking artist and place entities to regional metadata. Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, staged deploys with rollback; PySpark batch analytics.
Tools and skills: Python, PySpark, PostgreSQL, React, GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions, Blacksky NLP.
Sectors and areas: AI / ML, Python, Cloud, DevOps, APIs / Headless, Media.
Prism (Apr 2026)
Role: Founder & Principal Engineer.
Tiered data infrastructure platform and the backbone of KnowGov.
MongoDB tier 1, PostgreSQL tier 2, Qdrant vector store tier 3. Prism Zero cold storage on Backblaze B2 with local snapshot pulls.
Tools and skills: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Qdrant, Python, Backblaze B2, Data architecture.
Sectors and areas: AI / ML, Python, Cloud, Search.
AgentOS (Jun 2026)
Role: Founder & Principal Engineer.
Agent, assistant, and oracle factory built on traits, policy, and telemetry primitives.
Model-agnostic via LiteLLM. Produces Maurice (sales), Skipper (on-device personal agent, native Swift), and the oracles Shirley, Stan, Axis, and The Griot.
Tools and skills: Python, LiteLLM, Multi-agent systems, Swift, Telemetry, Policy engines.
Sectors and areas: AI / ML, Python, APIs / Headless.
KnowGov · knowgov.info (Jul 2026 – present)
Role: Founder & Principal Engineer.
Free, nonpartisan civic intelligence platform. Launched July 4, 2026; full site live September 2026.
537 federal officials, 50 governors, POTUS, executive orders, SCOTUS. Next.js front end on Prism data; Shirley civic oracle; Congress Status, Compare, Power Map, full bill text reader. UI/UX co-created with Ebon Heath.
Tools and skills: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Qdrant, Congress.gov API, Federal Register API, GCP.
Sectors and areas: AI / ML, Python, Cloud, APIs / Headless, Frontend, Civic, Federal.