Off Grid CTO: Hey Buddy, Got a Light? As we transition to spring up here in the mountains, while I work for ModelOp as the CTO, the temperatures slowly climb, the days get longer, and the snow continues to melt.  It might seem counter intuitive, but this time of year I actually have to light the most fires.  During the winter, the woodstove keeps going 24×7, and I rarely have to relight it.  With the days getting warmer, we now actually just have a fire in the morning and in the evening, so that means starting two fires a day. We also start burning more slash in the burn barre ..read more

Off Grid CTO: Thankful the Projects Are Done! Welcome to the next post in the series about living life off the grid in the mountains of Colorado while working as the CTO of ModelOp, a great software company delivering solutions for governing and managing your AI models in an enterprise. As Thanksgiving day is about to arrive, it is time to look back on all of the things I am thankful for up here, and trust me, there are quite a few things.  But in specific I am very thankful for all of the things my wife and myself accomplished up here this summer.  The road up here will be closing ..read more

Off Grid CTO – Starlink in Action Exciting news up here at the off grid cabin location, we now have actual real high speed internet!  In this post, I am going to look at perhaps one of the best improvements to the working conditions we have made up here in a long time.  While working as the CTO of ModelOp, a great company providing enterprise solutions for model management, we have managed to make it work on traditional geo stationary satellite internet service.  It has been challenging to stay in the data limits and I had a whole post on just all of those tips and tricks to m ..read more

  Starlink on Pure DC Power Welcome to this next edition of Off Grid CTO featuring my projects and experiences working as the Chief Technology Officer of ModelOp, a great software company designing enterprise management of AI and traditional models.  It’s been a little whiles, and I will be posting more soon.  This edition actually comes to you from in flight on an airplane headed to a customer visit, so things are changing for sure! In this episode I will be exploring how I have adapted a Starlink terminal to work on DC power, without their provided router, and without cutt ..read more

Off Grid CTO: That’s Entertainment! Welcome to the next posting in the series about living off grid while working as the CTO of a great software startup, ModelOp, designing software to manage your AI models and assets across the entire enterprise.  We are hiring for multiple positions, so feel free to check out all of our job listings. Yeah, it’s been a bit since my last post.  Life got real busy up here at 10,200 feet in the Colorado Rockies.  Between dealing with all of the snow, carrying the non-stop supply of firewood for heating,  getting a software release out the ..read more

Off Grid CTO: Logging Made Easy(ier) Welcome to the long overdue next edition of Off Grid CTO, where I talk about living life off the grid while working as the Chief Technology Officer of ModelOp, a great software company creating advanced software to manage both your ML/AI models, as well as your traditional models as well.  If you get the chance, checkout my ongoing masterclass series on our product. It’s been a very busy summer up here.  The summers are amazingly short, and very busy.  There are a ton of projects to get done before the snow flies, and the road shuts do ..read more

  Off Grid CTO: Fall and Remembrance Welcome to the next post in the Off Grid CTO blog about my experiences working as a CTO off the grid high in the mountains of Colorado.  I work for a great company called ModelOp, where we design cutting edge software for managing your AI models in the enterprise environment.  It is an exciting place to work as we lead the industry in this space.  BTW, we are hiring! Today we are going to explore the past, as fall is upon us and the seasons are rapidly changing.  As we struggle to get that last bit of firewood put up to keep us w ..read more

  Off Grid CTO – Seeing The Light In The Darkness Welcome to another post in the series about living life off the grid while working as the CTO of ModelOp, a great software company delivering the management of AI models and other analytics within your enterprise.  We are hiring for multiple positions if you are interested in joining us! In this post, we look at something that is very crucial during this time of the year.  As we approach the shortest day of the year, darkness becomes a major issue.  It not only affects the amount of energy I can produce, but also requires ..read more