Aric Camarata

Principal AI Engineer with 20+ years building distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and full-stack applications across defense, enterprise, and product companies. I work on multi-model AI routing, hybrid retrieval (RAG), federated GraphQL, and high-throughput Go backends, and I built nSelf, a self-hosted PaaS, and nClaw, a multi-model AI router. I led development at Northrop Grumman under a TS clearance, now expired. Available fully remote, or on-site in the SF Bay Area up to one week a month.

Earlier work spans Apple, AT&T, the U.S. Treasury (GSOC), Credit Karma, Walmart Labs, and Cigna, across consumer platforms, government security operations, and enterprise health tech. I build AI that keeps data private: local inference on Apple Silicon, classifier-driven model routing, and on-premise RAG pipelines that keep sensitive data off third-party clouds. The open-source nSelf CLI stands up a full Postgres, Hasura, and auth stack on a $4 a month Hetzner server, with the capabilities you would otherwise pay a managed host for.