Carlo's Story

From aerospace to reliable AI autonomy

Dream of flight - airfield scene

Dream of flight

It started with wanting to fly.

Joined the U.S. Air Force hoping to become an officer and pilot.

Aerospace journey - helicopter, rocket, test stand

Aerospace journey

~20 years in aerospace: helicopter maintenance, propulsion, test and qualification.

Diagnose · Test · Measure · Verify

Swift Playgrounds coding breakthrough moment

It's alive

2020. Swift Playgrounds.

It's alive.

Balancing life layers while learning

Life layers

Front-end training while working full time, through marriage and two kids.

The interest never went away.

Shipping products with AI agents

Shipping products

AI coding agents expanded what I could build.

MemReez shipped on web, iOS and Android. VaultDoc — document provenance on a blockchain — is coming soon.

Engineering OS - verification gates and metrics

Engineering OS / Reliable autonomy

Autonomy is easy to demo. Reliability has to be engineered.

Early experiment: turning expert review into a repeatable method.