πŸ‘‹ Hi, I’m Michael Woodward β€” Welcome to My Engineering Lab

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I’m a full-stack software engineer and system architect who’s been building a new kind of development experience β€” one that blends autonomous agents, personal infrastructure, and developer empowerment through local-first AI systems.

By day, I work professionally in enterprise-level application engineering. But by night (and most mornings), I’ve been engineering something far more personal:
A sovereign, intelligent system called Guardian β€” my own private automation engine, powered by tools like:

  • 🧠 Qdrant (semantic memory and recall)
  • πŸͺ„ Supabase (structured metadata, logs, auth, and real-time sync)
  • ⚑ Bun + Hono (blazing-fast APIs with type safety)
  • 🧰 n8n (for visual automation and workflow dispatch)
  • πŸ€– Ollama (local LLMs like LLaMA 3 and Dolphin)
  • πŸ’» Framer Motion, React, MUI (for delightful, custom UIs)
  • 🌐 Cloudflare + Tailscale (to secure every entry point)

This blog is part engineering journal, part experimentation lab, and part build-in-public log. It’s where I document the systems I’m building, the experiments I’m running, and the breakthroughs I’ve been quietly shipping in the background β€” all while exploring how AI and automation can fundamentally change the way we build software and run our lives.

What You’ll Find Here

  • ✨ Real engineering work β€” not just demos, but things I use every day
  • πŸ“˜ Tutorials and guides using my preferred stack
  • πŸ§ͺ Experiments with AI agents, workflows, and custom infra
  • πŸ” Observations on system design, automation, and personal sovereignty
  • πŸ’‘ Reflections on where I think software development is heading

Everything I build, I build with intent:

  • Local-first
  • AI-enhanced
  • Open architecture
  • Developer-owned

My current focus is turning Guardian from a solo dev experiment into a platform others can use β€” either open-source, or through a hosted version for non-technical users.

Whether you’re an engineer curious about advanced automation, a founder looking to build faster, or just a tech enthusiast with a builder’s mindset β€” welcome. ✨


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