ken w. alger
@Ken W. Alger
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Systems Architect & Technical Product Leader | Open-Source Core Infrastructure
About
Systems architect and technical product leader with roots in bare-metal engineering and decades of experience building core infrastructure. From legacy distributed foundations to m... Show more
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Fun Fact
Systems architecture is another career. A few anomalies from the first few acts:
- Former Executive Chef; assisted a team at the Culinary Olympics in Berlin.
- Met a major party U.S. Presidential ticket nominee from every election between 1976 and 2004 (plus 2012 and 2024).
- Unwittingly crossed paths with a victim of the Unabomber days before the event, and had a wedding caterer who later became a convicted murderer.
- Former Executive Chef; assisted a team at the Culinary Olympics in Berlin.
- Met a major party U.S. Presidential ticket nominee from every election between 1976 and 2004 (plus 2012 and 2024).
- Unwittingly crossed paths with a victim of the Unabomber days before the event, and had a wedding caterer who later became a convicted murderer.
Contributions
Articles
- Material ProvenanceAug 08, 2026
- Active Working Memory: The RAM of Agentic SystemsJul 28, 2026
- The Context Window Isn't Memory. It's the CPU Cache of AI.Jul 22, 2026
- The Supply Chain GuardianJul 16, 2026
- Declarations from the Periphery: From Genesis to the Sovereign EdgeJul 02, 2026
Comments
- "Nothing said in the chat survives the chat." This is the exact moment...Jul 30, 2026
- @[Emder] Thanks for reading, and I'm pleased you got some value from it.Jul 30, 2026
- I think one of the recurring themes across production agent systems is...Jul 22, 2026
- I think this is an important conversation because there are really two...Jul 22, 2026
- I agree with the premise. Performance problems are often visible. Unde...Jul 15, 2026
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