Jeffrey V. Johnson, Ph.D.

Mathematical researcher & systems builder

I build agentic systems as a research practice — the governance frameworks, capability substrates, and ML control planes that bound what automated agents can do — grounded in a Ph.D. in functional analysis.

Homer, Alaska

Selected work Budget Triage Flux Dicee

Now · Q2 2026 Building a formal governance substrate for multi-agent systems — durable architect decisions, audited builder execution, verifiable compliance.

Approach

A set of investigations into how agentic tooling reshapes solo-developer engineering. Each card below names an exploration thread and the project where I've built infrastructure to study it. The work is research-in-the-open: most projects are foundations for future work, not shipped products.

The Governance Laboratory

Flagship

Bicameral agent architecture as a research interest: architect agents write durable decisions, builder agents execute them, and auditor agents verify compliance. An evolving practice worked out across the projects below.

Agentic Constitution Forensic Observability Role Separation
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ML Control Planes

Performance

Building a unified Compile/Execute IR abstracting model generation paths across local and remote providers. Flux is a private research vehicle for reproducible workflow control, artifact lineage, and controlled regeneration.

Unified IR Artifact Immutability MPS Optimization
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Hybrid Intelligence

Depth

Split-brain architecture: deterministic WASM core handles the math, while personality profiles bias decisions to create human-like variance without LLM latency. Dicee is live family software and a concrete agentic-framework output.

Deterministic Core Generative Layer Brain Interface
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Safety-Critical Systems

Rigor

Hardware-adjacent mobile work where lifecycle mistakes show up immediately in physical-device testing. ScopeCam is an alpha-stage Android app for USB microscope cameras — UVC integration, a vendored native stack, and a six-module architecture with ArchUnit guardrails and 1,790 tests.

WARM Gate Protocol Two-Phase Commit Native Integration
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Zero-Trust Infrastructure

Architecture

Operating a multi-node, zero-WAN-exposure network using OPNsense, Tailscale mesh VPN, and Infisical. The infrastructure provides a practical substrate for learning where credentials live, how traffic is routed, and how operational state drifts.

Bare-Metal OPNsense Tailscale Mesh Machine Identity
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Research Foundations

Foundations

A cluster of projects built as foundations for future R&D — each probing a specific question about agent architecture, distributed coordination, or capability boundaries.

Foundation Layer Research Practice Open-Ended

Educational Technology

In Production

Custom iframe framework for Blackboard Ultra, a LaTeX→Blackboard converter (hundreds of pages), and automated task schedulers. Pragmatic engineering against real pedagogical constraints.

LMS Integration LaTeX Processing Automation

Background

A pure-mathematics foundation applied to systems work: a dissertation on spectral preservers between function algebras (with Dr. Thomas Tonev), a recent clinical-research publication in Pediatric Physical Therapy (2023), self-hosted infrastructure across Hetzner and Cloudflare, and ongoing theoretical-CS exploration. The full record — teaching, publications, and the complete CV — is below.

Technical Foundation

Systems

Rust, TypeScript/Bun, Kotlin, Python

Architecture

gRPC microservices, WebAssembly, serverless patterns

Infrastructure

Self-hosted services, Cloudflare, Docker

Theory

Distributed algorithms, type systems, formal methods