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I build AI systems the way I fix machines: diagnose, test, and show the evidence.

I'm Tristan Jessup, the most senior bench technician at Geek Squad (Best Buy Store #259), based in the Lexington, Kentucky area. I'm CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ certified and an Apple Certified Repair Technician. I design agentic tooling that pairs small language models with scripted tools, and I build governance experiments where every claim is mapped to a test. I'm working toward a B.S. in IT with an AI concentration and looking for enterprise AI integration and AI architecture roles.

Selected work

Proof, not promises

Each case study links to what you can check for yourself, and says plainly what it doesn't show.

Local photo auto-tagging

A local pipeline: an Ollama vision model proposes tags, exiftool writes them into the image metadata, and the same tags are set as extended attributes so KDE Dolphin can search and display them. Everything runs on my own machine.

Home Assistant and an integration security audit

Home Assistant automation at home, plus a security audit of a third-party vehicle-integration repository for Home Assistant.

Daily toolchain

Latest writing

Inspired by myth, accountable to evidence.