Hi, I'm Darryl,
I'm an entrepreneur, technologist, open source contributor, and lifelong builder.
Today, I'm focused on building Caprycon, a company dedicated to developing AI tools and infrastructure with a particular focus on local large language models and open source technologies. I am also the Co-Founder of RevRYL and serve as an Additional Director at Aloida Industries.
I've been fascinated by computers, technology, and building things for as long as I can remember. That curiosity eventually led me to start blogging when I was 16 years old, writing about Linux, open source software, and the technologies that caught my attention. In 2014, I launched this website as a place to share what I was learning and working on. More than a decade later, I'm still doing exactly that. My original blog is still online and can be found at darryldias.wordpress.com.
Over the years, my career has taken me through cloud computing, web development, visual effects for film and television, computer animation, game development, DevOps, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. While those fields may seem very different on the surface, they've all been connected by a common theme: solving problems, building systems, and learning how complex technologies work.
Cloud computing has been a constant throughout my journey. I've been working with cloud technologies since the early days of OpenShift, long before cloud-native technologies became mainstream. Throughout my career, I've designed and managed infrastructure, built scalable platforms, automated workflows, and helped organizations modernize the way they build and deploy software.
At the same time, I explored the creative side of technology through visual effects, computer animation, and game development. Early in my career, I worked with GameEon Info Tech, a startup developing an ambitious open-world game inspired by Mumbai. As part of the team, I worked in Research and Development and as a 3D Artist, contributing to the early stages of the project's development. That experience gave me valuable insight into how large creative and technical teams collaborate to bring ambitious ideas to life.
Web development has also been a major part of my professional journey. Over the years, I've built websites and digital platforms using WordPress, Statamic, Grav, and other content management systems. I have a particular interest in flat-file CMS platforms because of their performance, simplicity, and maintainability. I've developed custom themes for Ghost CMS, Grav CMS, and Statamic, and have built websites optimized for speed, scalability, and low-latency performance.
As my experience grew, I became increasingly involved in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and software delivery. One of the projects I'm most proud of involved rebuilding the DevOps pipeline of a large-scale AI and computer vision company from the ground up. This included modernizing their Git workflow, introducing GitOps practices, implementing automated testing and pre-deployment validation, training engineering teams on modern development workflows, and helping improve the reliability of software delivery across an organization with more than 80 developers working on multiple projects. I also helped identify and patch legacy .NET applications running on end-of-life versions that had previously gone unnoticed, improving both security and maintainability.
Outside of my professional work, I've always been a strong believer in open source software. I contribute through documentation, testing, project maintenance, bug reporting, feedback, and by building and maintaining my own open source projects. Open source has played a significant role in my career and education, and contributing back is my way of supporting the communities that helped me learn and grow.
Today, much of my attention is focused on artificial intelligence, particularly local large language models. I believe the future of AI shouldn't belong exclusively to a handful of large companies, and I'm actively working on tools that help local models become more capable, practical, and accessible. My goal is to help bridge the gap between open source AI and the largest commercial AI platforms.
This blog reflects many of those interests. You'll find articles about Linux, cloud infrastructure, web development, AI, open source software, DevOps, cybersecurity, and whatever new technology happens to send me down a rabbit hole. Some posts are tutorials, some are opinions, and some are simply lessons learned from building things over the years.
If you've found something useful here, learned something new, or discovered a tool that made your life easier, then this website has done its job.
Thanks for stopping by.
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