Software Engineer · Agentic AI · Founder & CTO

Lucas Marlin Tilford

Agentic systems, graph infrastructure, and production platforms.

A free encyclopedia of technical data, sourced texts, and services you can run without an account. Maintained by a software engineer at Leidos and founder of Manticore Technologies / PeerWeave.

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Work

Four pieces. Courses, music, and the rest of the record are in the faculties below.

Memoria · Edition 9

Jorjani Atlas

Source-linked graph of three conversations. Interview claims and documentary checks stay in separate layers.

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The Atlas · Encyclopedia

Data, texts, and services

NASA/NOAA heliophysics, Gospel Lens, Christian canons, and free services.

Open the Atlas Gospel Lens Plasma atlas

Manticore · PeerWeave

PeerWeave

Local-first P2P infrastructure — libp2p, CRDTs, WASM agents, and DIDs.

peerweave.com Field Node

Leidos · Case studies

Systems & networks

Agentic analytics, a VPP mesh, and zero-trust documents — the work behind the profile figures.

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Illustrated Galilean hillside used as documentary key art

Ratio · Documentary

The Sermon of Jesus Christ

Who gets to inherit the world? Walk Matthew 5–7 across Galilee, the written Gospels, later manuscripts, and the present tense. Eighteen chapters. Text, history, and application kept in separate layers.

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Memoria

Memory

Projects, case studies, and the systems behind them.

Featured

Jorjani Atlas Edition 9 research graph

Imaginatio

Imagination

Music, art, games, and writing.

Featured

CSS sculptures Four unique CSS chambers

Ratio

Reason

Essays on theology, technology, and systems.

Featured

Intellectual honesty Faith under scrutiny

Dossier · Software Engineer · Founder & CTO

Distributed systems, agentic analytics, and production infrastructure.

Distributed systems engineer specializing in secure, AI-enabled infrastructure. At Leidos I own agentic analytics, graph retrieval, and GitOps platforms, and I lead high-performance networking and zero-trust work. As founder & CTO of Manticore Technologies I ship PeerWeave — local-first P2P development infrastructure — plus Field Node and open blockchain tooling.

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3.92 GPA · CWRU Computer Science
36M+ publications queried with MCP + Neo4j
33× ROI on enterprise agentic analytics
<5s semantic graph query latency at scale
99.5%+ uptime on GitOps GenAI platforms
3rd NASA Space Apps · 3D ISS Tracker

Leidos · Software Engineer · July 2023 – Present

Agentic AI · resilient networks · zero trust

Agentic analytics over 36M+ publications, a decentralized VPN mesh, GitOps for GenAI, and zero-trust identity on AWS. The figures above are from that work.

Leidos case studies

Manticore Technologies · Founder & CTO · Feb 2024 – Present

PeerWeave · Field Node · research atlases

Local-first P2P infrastructure, Field Node, evrmore-rpc, and public research graphs — including the Jorjani Atlas.

Manticore work

Education

Case Western Reserve University

B.S. Computer Science, software engineering depth, German minor. Graduated Spring 2023. German Club president. Teaching assistant, Software Craftsmanship. Varsity track & field.

case.edu Education & activities

Award · 2022

NASA Space Apps · 3rd place

3D ISS Tracker — live orbits and satellite history on NASA Web WorldWind, TLE.js, and Satellite.js. Cleveland, OH, 2022 local award.

Project page Cleveland awards Watch the demo

AI & data

Agentic AI / MCP
Pydantic AI
Neo4j
Airflow
Langfuse

Cloud & security

Kubernetes · GitOps
Istio · mTLS
Zero Trust
AWS EKS
Okta · Vault

Systems

VPP · DPDK
IPSec · gRPC
libp2p · CRDTs
FastAPI · React

Languages

Python
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Java · C++

Full résumé on request — lucas@manticore.email.

Labs

Browser courses. Open one, or start from the hub.

Listen

Latest album as Lucas Marlin — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music. Electronic releases are Lucas M. Tilford — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music. Catalog notes live on Music.