Software & Systems Engineer — I build reliable, scalable systems across robotics, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and full-stack applications.
My approach combines SRE discipline, robotics thinking (perception → planning → actuation), and product-focused engineering.
Currently serving as an SRE at Coles (3+ years), ensuring high availability, observability, and automation for critical retail systems.
Location: Worldwide (remote-first)
| Domain | What I actually do |
|---|---|
| Software Engineering | Full lifecycle: requirements → architecture → implementation → testing → deployment → monitoring. Strong in design patterns, API design, and maintainable code. |
| Robotics & Automation | ROS/ROS2, simulation (Gazebo, Ignition), sensor integration, control loops, path planning, and real-time constraints. Experience with robot perception (LiDAR, vision) and actuator control. |
| Site Reliability Engineering | SLI/SLO definition, incident response, chaos engineering, capacity planning, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki). |
| AI / ML Infrastructure | Local & cloud LLM deployment, model serving (vLLM, llama.cpp), prompt pipelines, agent frameworks (LangChain, MCP). |
| Platform & Backend | Distributed systems, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), service meshes, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API gateways. Languages: Python, Go, Java, Node.js, C++. |
| Data Engineering | ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming (Flink, Spark Streaming), data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake), lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake). |
| Full-Stack Product | React, Vue, TypeScript, design systems, performance optimization, user-centric delivery. |
Current focus: Blending robotics simulation with cloud-native SRE tooling — building reproducible, observable environments for autonomous systems.
Languages
Robotics & Simulation
SRE & Cloud
Backend & Data
Frontend & Tools
| Project | Focus |
|---|---|
| AI.DEN | Local LLM cluster — model router, speculative decoding, MCP, IDE integration. |
- End-to-end ownership — from a vague requirement to a deployed, monitored, documented system.
- Reliability by default — I design with failure modes, retries, timeouts, and observability baked in.
- Bridge robotics & software — I translate physical constraints (sensors, actuators, real-time) into software abstractions that scale.
- Portfolio: aidenfaulconer.tech
- Open to: roles in software engineering, robotics platforms, SRE/platform engineering, or infrastructure for autonomous systems.
- Location: Worldwide · Remote-first