Shipping THC to Steam · Building SEED at Rivermark

Shaun
Wakashige

Design. Music. Security. Games. AI. Twenty years building at the intersections nobody else covers.

AI/ML EngineerAgent OrchestratorCloud ArchitectCybersecurityGame DeveloperGraphic DesignerMusic Producer
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Production Systems at Scale

Applications

Five million records processed monthly. SOC-2 compliant. Clients include major logistics and e-commerce brands. From behavioral AI platforms to shipping insurance automation — production systems behind real revenue on AWS serverless.

Rivermark Research
Founding Engineer — rivermarkresearch.ai

Rivermark Research

Founding engineer. Architecting the backend and infrastructure for SEED — a platform that extracts meaningful context from behavioral data using AI. Enterprise-grade AWS IaC, core processing pipelines, and auditing systems built for scale. Translating complex AI/ML requirements into production-ready specifications.

AWS CDKPythonAI/MLIaCFounding Engineer
NextActiv
AI/ML Specialist Architect

NextActiv

AI/ML specialist architect on a healthcare marketing operations engagement. Conducts AI readiness assessments, designs phased maturity roadmaps, and builds multi-agent validation workflows for deliverable QA. Deep Salesforce ecosystem — SFMC, Data Cloud, Agentforce — with HIPAA-compliant delivery standards.

AI/MLSFMCData CloudAgentforceEnterprise Consulting
Wonton Web Works
Forward Deploying Engineer

Wonton Web Works

Ships production code directly into client environments. Delivered rivermarkresearch.ai, theengorg.com, and open-source tooling. Full ownership from architecture through deployment — no handoffs, no waiting.

Full StackOpen SourceProduction DeploysClient Delivery
U-PIC Shipping Insurance
Software Engineer

U-PIC Shipping Insurance

Led AWS configuration for SOC-2 Type-2 audit compliance. Built automated auditing processing millions of records monthly for major logistics and e-commerce brands. Custom Shopify app from scratch in Python and React/Remix. Modernized legacy PHP with near-zero downtime.

AWSSOC-2ShopifyReact/RemixPrisma
Soil & Soul Games

Games

One person. Twelve AI agents. A full game studio. Soil & Soul Games builds titles from concept to Steam release using a multi-agent production pipeline — orchestrator, designer, engineer, artist, audio, QA, and more. No traditional studio. No meetings. Just architecture and output.

Totally Hellish Chaos — Social Trailer
Totally Hellish Chaos
Creator & Lead Developer

Totally Hellish Chaos

A cannabis-themed bullet hell survivor I started building solo — just me and artist Noc. Seven weapons, seven infused evolutions, eleven enemy types, two bosses, full meta-progression. Now leveraging agentic AI workflows to bring it across the finish line for Steam Early Access. Built in Godot 4.6.

Godot 4.6GDScriptSteamAgentic DevPixel Art
Mosslings
Game Designer

Mosslings

An invisible god sim. Moss creatures evolve from single organisms to full civilizations. Shape the terrain, influence the weather — then watch them develop language, culture, and ritual without you. Emergent AI drives every generation.

God SimEmergent AICozyGDD Phase
DEAD SHIFT
Game Designer

DEAD SHIFT

Four-player mobile co-op horror. Your job: repossess valuables from the afterlives of the recently dead. Phone-as-equipment. Proximity voice chat. Corporate dark humor meets supernatural dread.

Unity 6Co-op HorrorMobileGDD Phase
Castle Brawl
Game Designer

Castle Brawl

Side-scrolling co-op brawler for up to four players. Castle Crashers progression depth meets Contra-level enemy density. Inherits the visual feedback juice from Totally Hellish Chaos. Early concept phase.

Co-op BrawlerGodot 4.6Concept Phase
The Way Everything Gets Built

Agentic AI

Most people use AI as a copilot. This is something different. A file-based protocol where specialized agents — orchestrator, engineer, reviewer, QA — coordinate autonomously through a shared directory. One architect. Twelve agents. Zero meetings. It built the games above. It validates the enterprise deliverables. It is the workflow.

Projects

12-Agent Game Team
Creator & Orchestrator

12-Agent Game Team

Totally Hellish Chaos started as a solo project — built by hand before agentic AI was mainstream. When development stalled, a 12-agent team was assembled to break through. Now the entire creative pipeline runs through specialized agents: design, engineering, art, audio, narrative, QA, and review. One architect orchestrating twelve minds.

Claude CodeAgent TeamsGame ProductionOrchestration
Agentic Sandbox System
Open Source Platform

Agentic Sandbox System

Self-hostable AI agent platform with RAG. Create and deploy OpenAI and Claude agents through a web UI. Built with FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, and PGVector. Spin up agents, connect knowledge bases, and run them — no infrastructure wrangling.

Open SourceFastAPIReactRAGDockerPGVector
RAG Chatbot Framework
Developer

RAG Chatbot Framework

Reusable retrieval-augmented generation framework. Vector database integration, LLM chaining, and domain-specific grounding that minimizes hallucinations. Built to be dropped into any product that needs accurate, sourced Q&A.

RAGVector DBLLM ChainingPython
AI Video Engine
Creator

AI Video Engine

Generative AI video engine powered by Google Veo. Automates 8-second clips from prompt to publish. 10M+ views. 12K followers. 200K likes. Across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube — in 30 days. Proof that the right pipeline beats a content team.

Google VeoGenerative AI10M+ ViewsViral
Where Systems Meet

Integrations

Model Context Protocol servers. Forex trading swarms. Social media pipelines that went viral. API endpoints bridging systems that were never designed to talk to each other. The integration layer that makes everything else work.

MCP Servers
Developer

MCP Servers

Custom Model Context Protocol servers that extend AI into real-world tools. pptx-mcp generates presentations from prompts. oanda-mcp connects language models to live forex trading data. MCP is the bridge between LLMs and production systems — these servers are the proof.

MCPTypeScriptTool Building
Forex Swing Swarm
Developer

Forex Swing Swarm

Multi-agent trading system. Quantitative research agents generate strategy profiles. Automated signals execute against live market data. Where agentic AI meets financial markets.

TradingMulti-AgentPythonQuant
Social Media Pipeline
Developer

Social Media Pipeline

End-to-end automated content pipeline: generation, post-production, and multi-platform distribution across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Provider fallback patterns ensure zero downtime. The engine behind the 10M+ views.

AutomationVideo GenMulti-Platform
API Endpoints at Scale
Engineer — U-PIC

API Endpoints at Scale

Webhook orchestration and API design at enterprise scale. GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. AWS CloudFormation for repeatable, auditable infrastructure. Where external partner systems connect to internal production environments.

API5M+ RecordsCI/CDAWS
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Twenty Years of Compound Interest

About

Started designing ads at Deutsch LA in 2004. Studied music production at Berklee. Ranked 97th out of 6,272 in the National Cyber League. Rebranded an energy drink into Times Square. Now orchestrating 12-agent AI teams that ship games to Steam. Every chapter unlocked the next one. None of them are over.

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Shaun Wakashige

Shaun Wakashige

Los Angeles, CA

BS in Web Design & Interactive Media. Master Certification in Music Production from Berklee. Two degrees from Moorpark College with a 4.0 GPA. Started designing at Deutsch LA in 2004. Still shipping — now with twelve AI agents.

UPTIME Energy
Senior Graphic Designer

UPTIME Energy

Complete rebrand of a national energy drink line. Designed 14 SKU packages for aluminum bottles. Built investor decks presented to C-suite. Campaigns placed in Times Square and Houston Space Center. Launched into Kroger, Target, H-E-B, 7-Eleven, and military bases nationwide. From pixel to shelf.

Brand DesignTimes Square14 SKUsNational Distribution
Music Production
BMI Music Producer

Music Production

Berklee College of Music certified. Published through BMI. One album, one EP, three singles across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and every major platform. Electronic music production that now informs game audio direction and generative sound design.

BerkleeBMIElectronicSpotify
Cybersecurity
Practitioner & Competitor

Cybersecurity

Ranked 97th out of 6,272 in the National Cyber League. Top 1% on TryHackMe. AWS Cloud Practitioner certified. Built NIST-compliant systems and led vulnerability management. Cybersecurity isn't a side skill — it's the reason the architecture is airtight.

NCL 97th/6272TryHackMe Top 1%AWSNIST
15 Years Consulting
theSwak — Full-Stack Consultant

15 Years Consulting

Fifteen years as a one-person consultancy. Cloud migrations that cut costs by 70%. Full online presence for 50+ businesses — domain, DNS, hosting, CRM, e-commerce, security audits. The entire IT department for businesses that didn't know they needed one.

Cloud Migration50+ Clients15 YearsFull Stack