network + AI engineer · maker · artist
ColtonSpahmer
Over a decade keeping carrier networks up, and the rest of my time building the systems that run on them — then printing the parts, scoring the soundtrack, and painting the walls. Six disciplines, one workshop.
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Engineering
Over a decade keeping carrier networks alive, and everything I've built on top of them since — agents, fleets, and the machines they run on.
Carrier and enterprise networks
Network Engineering
Cisco IOS, BGP, OSPF, and carrier Ethernet — the layer everything else on this page runs on top of.
Multi-vendor integration
Carrier Ethernet & WAN
Outage response
B.S. in Information Security and Forensics, Rochester Institute of Technology — High Honors. Full history in theresume.
Agents, fleets, and pipelines
AI Systems
Systems that do real operational work — not demos. These run on hardware in my house, every day.
Mission Control
Case study in progress
The homelab
Case study in progress
Design, slice, monitor, print
The Print Pipeline
The engineering half of 3D printing: a monitoring pipeline that watches the printer so I don't have to.
Print telemetry over MQTT, automatic timelapse capture, and alerts when a job fails at 3am. The objects it produces live in theStudio.
Build log — in progress
Robotics
The newest discipline, documented honestly as I learn it: what I'm building, what broke, and what it taught me.
Build log entries start as soon as the first chassis moves under its own power. Expect parts lists, failures, and short clips — not a finished showreel.
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Studio
Off the clock it's paint, plaster, grout, a DAW, and a printer making objects instead of parts.
Paint, plaster, grout
Art
Paint, plaster, and grout — plus a Quest headset that's about to become a brush.
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Mosaic
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Mosaic
Next canvas is room-sized: murals painted in VR on a Quest, then brought back out into the physical world.
Production and sound design
Music
Tracks I wrote and produced. Waveform players land with the audio.
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
Modelled, printed, kept
Printed Objects
The things the printer makes when it isn't making parts — modelled by me, kept because I liked them.
- GLB model — orbit viewer
- GLB model — orbit viewer
- GLB model — orbit viewer
Who's behind all this
About & Contact
I'm Colton — a network engineer by trade and a builder by default. Over a decade of Cisco IOS, BGP, and carrier Ethernet taught me how real infrastructure fails, which is why the AI systems I build now run on hardware I racked myself.
B.S. in Information Security and Forensics from RIT, High Honors. Off the clock it's paint, printers, a DAW, and a fly rod — the fish above being the one time all of that stopped at once.