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michaelalber/README.md

Michael — Enterprise Software Engineer | Edge AI & Industrial Automation

20+ years building enterprise systems. Now exploring where software meets the physical world.

What I Do

Day job: .NET/C# enterprise architecture, REST APIs, vertical slice patterns, legacy modernization

Nights & weekends: Edge AI, industrial IoT, robotics, and bridging IT/OT systems

Current Learning Projects

🤖 Edge AI & Computer Vision — Deploying models on Jetson Orin Nano and Raspberry Pi 5
🔧 Industrial Protocols — MQTT, Modbus, OPC-UA integration patterns
🚗 Robotics Fundamentals — Robot car platform for computer vision and autonomous navigation
📊 Sensor Integration — Building data pipelines from physical sensors to cloud analytics

AI Development Tools

🧠 MCP Servers — Python-based Model Context Protocol servers for AI agent tooling
📚 RAG Applications — Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines for domain-specific knowledge
🦙 Local LLM Integration — Ollama workflows for privacy-sensitive development environments

Tech Stack

Enterprise: .NET 10, C#, Entity Framework, Blazor, Azure, REST APIs, CQRS

AI/ML: Python, Ollama, LangChain, RAG pipelines, MCP servers, TensorFlow Lite

Edge/Embedded: Python, OpenCV, computer vision, sensor integration

Hardware: Jetson Orin Nano, Raspberry Pi 5, various sensor arrays, Picar-X AI Video Robot Car

Environment: Pop!_OS, System76 Thelio Mira (RTX 3080), Linux-first approach

Why This Path

Most industrial automation folks come from controls engineering. Most enterprise devs never touch hardware. I'm interested in the gap between them — how do you build systems that scale from sensor to cloud with proper architecture?

The factory floor is about to get a lot smarter. Companies will need people who understand both worlds.

Writing

I write about the journey from enterprise software to industrial systems on Substack — lessons learned, architecture decisions, and project breakdowns.

Let's Connect

Open to conversations about industrial IoT, edge AI deployment, or bridging enterprise and embedded systems.

📫 michaelkalber@proton.me | LinkedIn

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  1. jetson-edge-ai jetson-edge-ai Public

    Real-time edge AI inference and industrial automation on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano — sensor integration, defect detection pipelines, and .NET monitoring dashboards for manufacturing environments.

  2. grounded-code-mcp grounded-code-mcp Public

    Ground your AI coding agent in the books, standards, and docs you actually trust. A local MCP RAG server that makes your preferences the default.

    Python

  3. picar-x-custom picar-x-custom Public

    Hands-on AI robotics laboratory built on the SunFounder PiCar-X — a structured learning path through physical AI, autonomous navigation, and on-device vision using Raspberry Pi 5 and Ollama.

    Python

  4. local-rag local-rag Public

    Privacy-first document chat using retrieval-augmented generation — search and converse with local ebooks, PDFs, and technical docs via Ollama without sending data to the cloud.

    Python

  5. second-brain second-brain Public

    AI-enhanced personal knowledge management system implementing Tiago Forte's Second Brain methodology — capture, organize, distill, and surface knowledge using local LLMs.

    Python