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Curriculum Vitae

Samo Blatnik

Samo Blatnik — IT veteran (15+ years) → AI Agent Developer. Last 2 years exclusively building autonomous AI agents, agent harnesses, and orchestration systems. My philosophy: plain vanilla is the best — simple, understandable, maintainable solutions.


AchievementTechnologiesStatus
Clawdie ISO — Bootable FreeBSD 15 USB image with embedded Pi agent, Colibri daemon, ZFS RAID1, bhyve VMs, Bastille jailsFreeBSD, ZFS, bhyve, Bastille, poudriere, Rust/Go✅ 0.12.0 released, 0.13.0 in development
Colibri — Control plane for autonomous agents with tokenomics trifecta (performance/speed/cost)Rust (daemon, CLI, Zot), Go (MCP bridge, cost dashboard), pgvector🔄 Active development
Herdr — Terminal workspace manager (ratatui, PTY, tmux-style) for agent runtimeRust, ratatui, SSH attach✅ Published at herdr.dev
Zot Agent Harness — NDJSON RPC, subtask delegation, tool interceptionRust, Codex/Claude/OpenCode integration✅ Foundation for Hermes-BSD
Pi Harness — Standalone Node.js agent (@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent), home overlay systemNode.js, npm global, Hermes orchestration✅ Main runtime on Clawdie ISO
Wiki for LLMs — 44 pages Colibri wiki with OKF v0.2 frontmatter, automated lintMarkdown, OKF, wiki-lint, pre-push hooks✅ In production

Systems & Orchestration: FreeBSD 15, ZFS, bhyve, Bastille, systemd-style services, poudriere

Agent Frameworks: Pi Harness, Zot, Herdr, Colibri-daemon, MCP Protocol

Languages: Rust (Colibri core, Herdr, Zot), Go (Colibri services), Node.js/TypeScript (Pi), Python (learning)

Local LLM & Infra: Ollama, llama.cpp (benchmarks), pgvector, Docker, Traefik, N8N

Terminal-first: tmux, SSH, zsh, ratatui TUI, Neovim/Windsurf


  • Colibri Wiki — 44 pages of architecture, benchmarks, decisions (wiki)
  • Google OKF v0.2 — Machine-readable metadata with trust tiers, stale_after, provenience
  • Abbreviations Index — Auto-generated acronym glossary
  • Guides — Deployment (Traefik+Systemd), Docker Desktop Debian 13, Context Engineering, Tutorial Style Guide (guides)

  • Clawdie ISO — Main project: bootable AI agent platform
  • Colibri — Control plane + tokenomics
  • Herdr — Terminal agent workspace
  • Zot — Agent harness
  • Pi Harness — Node.js agent runtime

Full work history (IT support, sysadmin, hardware) available on request. Focus here is on AI agentics — what I’m building now.