Founder of Gilliard Company. I buy software businesses, rebuild them, and use what they earn to fund frontier research.
Now
Founder, Gilliard Company Acquires software businesses, rebuilds operations with modernized infrastructure and AI systems, and keeps them running.
Director, Gilliard Laboratories Gilliard's research and development division, funded by the companies we own and tested inside them first
Past
Founder, Atreides Systems - Automation & AI agency for mid-market businesses in the Savannah area. Wound down October 2026.
Cofounder & CTO, Domesday Systems - Cofounded a startup with another Valley Forge alum to build a platform for the military industrial base to track undisclosed beneficial ownership, FOCI, and sanctions in their subcontractor supply chains. Similar to my Palantir work, but for the MIB. Did not work out. Cofounder is now at Texas A&M.
Valley Forge ’26, Palantir Technologies - One of thirty in the founding Cohort. Engineered and shipped a global network graph solo. Mapped 11m+ entities to trace global beneficial ownership, FOCI, and international sanctions evasion for DCSA SF-328 clearance & FOCI investigation process. NDA.
Completions Stress Engineering Intern, Gulfstream Aerospace - One of 2 interns in Completions. Built internal apps that replaced manual workflows across stress, weight & balance, seats, and compliance. Cabin floorplan / configuration tool won the company-wide innovation award.
Research
A fruit fly brain that doomscrolls The full fly connectome run as a closed-loop agent and handed an infinite feed. When one post in two was rewarding, a third of the flies never stopped scrolling. Next, it learns chess with no engine, only the brain.
MERIDIAN A modern registry for intelligence-community naming. Mints unguessable codenames, verifies provenance, keeps an append-only ledger, and flags collisions with historical cryptonyms.