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Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole

Shackleton · 19 km · South Pole

Nate

Technical Project Specialist

Edge compute. Homelab AI. Tasteful hardware.

W burn · A D tilt · tap

Agents

About

Nate works on edge compute, homelab AI, and hardware that doesn’t look like a kit. The model, the box, the rack in the other room.

Constraints are the point. If it only works in a slide, he doesn’t ship it.

Work

Practice

Edge

Compute at the edge. Small boxes, hard limits, no spare rack. It has to run where it sits.

Practice

Homelab

AI that stays in the house. Agents, inference, a 7800XT. Banzai lives here.

Practice

Hardware

Tasteful design. If it looks like a science fair, it isn’t done.

Projects

Banzai

Grok Build sandbox plugin for O(1) semi-lossy memory. Shipped.

Homelab server

Multi-system open source agent stack. Linux and Unix, 32GB VRAM, smart home control, family agent system.

LilyGuard

Fully local body telemetry and chronic illness management. Smartwatch in.

Resume

Nathan Furman

Avionics Integration and Test Technician III on Starship. Lead hardware, test, and training on vehicle avionics.

Starbase, TX

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Experience

August 2025 – Present

Avionics Integration and Test Technician III

SpaceX

Ground Stations, Emergency AVI Repair, Research & Development.

  • Coordinated multidisciplinary engineering teams on the manufacture and upgrade of military flight simulators to DoD, AFSOC, and PMC specifications.
  • Ran trade-compliance, government-classification, and customer-acceptance work from build through delivery.
  • Kept OEM, customer, and internal stakeholders aligned while meeting operational and information-security requirements.
  • Served as on-site liaison for the U-28 Garmin upgrade at Hurlburt Field with Sierra Nevada Corporation and FlightSafety engineering.
  • Troubleshot, repaired, and certified avionics, weather radar, and instrumentation for Boeing, Embraer, and Sikorsky aircraft.
  • Worked from component maintenance manuals and customer-supplied documentation.
  • Coordinated with customers, engineers, and vendors on quality and return-to-service.

Education

August 2019

Associate of Applied Science, Aviation Electronics Technology

Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology

AAS, aviation electronics.

Licenses

  • Eligible for DoD Secret clearance (not currently active)
  • FCC GROL (General Radiotelephone Operator License)
  • Radar endorsement — authorized to maintain radar systems
  • Eagle Scout, May 2017

Skills

  • Avionics integration and test
  • Telemetry
  • Cable-harness design
  • CAD
  • PDR / CDR
  • GSE
  • Rope access
  • Confined space
  • Electronics troubleshooting
  • Automated test
  • Technical documentation
  • Cross-functional leadership

Grok

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Grok, in Nate’s cadence. Not Nate. Views his own.

Edge boxes, homelab AI, Banzai, the crater. Whatever.

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