Senior Software Engineer & Technology Leader
Aric Camarata
Aric served in the U.S. Army from 2001 to 2005, where he developed the discipline and composure under pressure that still defines how he works. He had been building sites and working with PHP since high school on small projects.
He launched his development career at Roxbury Group and has spent 20+ years building enterprise applications for companies like Apple, AT&T, Northrop Grumman, and Capgemini before mastering modern React, Angular, Node.js, and TypeScript frameworks. Today he works as Founder and Lead Developer of US Foundation, building software for charitable operations and open-source projects.
Among his notable work: building the nSelf CLI and ecosystem, an open-source self-hosted backend platform, ClawDE an AI-first redesign on the traditional IDE, porting the C-based NREL Solar Position Algorithm to native TypeScript, and Unity Sites — a production CMS that this site itself is built with and hosted on.
Work Experience
1420+ years building enterprise and commercial applications for clients including Apple, AT&T, Northrop Grumman, and Capgemini. Contract lead developer work spanning web platforms, backend systems, and open-source developer tooling.
My Projects
1213 open-source packages published on npm and GitHub, spanning full-stack platforms, Islamic astronomy libraries, solar position algorithms, and AI developer tooling.
Blog
View all (17) →Infinite Memory: How nClaw Recalls a Conversation From a Year Ago
The context window is not memory. It's working memory. Real recall across months requires server-side thread storage, a memory extraction pipeline, summary pyramids, an alias matrix, and hybrid retrieval. Here's how nClaw builds all of it.
ReadOwning Your Stack: Local LLMs Plus Frontier Models, On Your Terms
A privacy-first architecture for running sensitive AI workloads locally on Apple Silicon while selectively routing to frontier models, with a redaction pipeline, cost breakdown, and honest assessment of where local inference still falls short.
ReadThe Multi-AI Router: Stop Sending Every Question to GPT-5.4 or Opus 4.7
Every request to a 70B frontier model that could've been handled by a 7B local model is money you didn't need to spend and latency you didn't need to add. The Multi-AI Router pattern fixes that by treating model selection as a first-class architectural concern.
ReadTestimonials
Aric delivered production-quality code on a tight deadline without cutting corners. He understood the system architecture quickly and shipped features that just worked. One of the most reliable engineers I have worked with.
James Whitfield
Engineering Manager at Apple
We brought Aric in as lead developer for a complex data visualization project. He took ownership from day one, made smart technology choices, and communicated progress clearly. The client was thrilled with the result.
Rachel Nguyen
VP of Product at Pearson
Working under Aric at Capgemini was a turning point in my career. He set high standards for code quality and took the time to explain the reasoning behind architectural decisions. A great mentor and a strong technical lead.
David Park
Senior Developer at Capgemini
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