Michael Mahan

Michael Mahan Computer Appreciator

Exploring compute, from chips to agent orchestration, and everything in-between.

16 projects · 2014–2026

Selected Work

2026 Pantheon Inspired by Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, it orchestrates multiple persistent agents with the express goal of operating as an autonomous organization. Tasking, coordination, policy, principles. 2026 Echo Prismatic A voice demuxer middleware. Derives speakers, emotions, tone, and more. Tracks conversation and enables dynamic agentic monitoring and intelligent tool calls. 2024 Echo A completely-local-compute, voice-to-voice AI assistant — no cloud, the whole STT → LLM → TTS loop running on your own GPU. 2019 MoD A framework bot that runs hand-crafted text-adventure worlds (MUDs) inside Discord, with cross-server shared game state.
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2026
Echo Prismatic
A voice demuxer middleware. Derives speakers, emotions, tone, and more. Tracks conversation and enables dynamic agentic monitoring and intelligent tool calls.
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2024
Echo
A completely-local-compute, voice-to-voice AI assistant — no cloud, the whole STT → LLM → TTS loop running on your own GPU.
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2019
MoD
A framework bot that runs hand-crafted text-adventure worlds (MUDs) inside Discord, with cross-server shared game state.
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2026
Pantheon
Inspired by Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, it orchestrates multiple persistent agents with the express goal of operating as an autonomous organization. Tasking, coordination, policy, principles.
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2021
Cursory Assessment of the Oculus Quest 2
A wide-breadth security & forensics assessment that maps the attack surface of standalone VR hardware — the reverse-engineering groundwork that fed directly into my ransomware thesis.
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2022
Exploring Ransomware on the Oculus Quest 2
Master's thesis (MS, Computer Science): does Android ransomware actually work against a standalone VR headset? Built a proof-of-concept and tested it on the Oculus Quest 2.
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2025
Writing
Essays on systems thinking, agent orchestration, creative process, and developer tooling.
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ARC TRACE // 2014 → 2026

ALL security ·4agent-orchestration ·3systems ·3leadership ·2tooling ·2ai ·2voice ·2context ·2research ·2reverse-engineering ·1simulation ·1nlp ·1art ·1games ·1local-compute ·1frameworks ·1multiplayer ·1math ·1viz ·1android ·1
2026
PantheonArchitect + operator
Inspired by Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, it orchestrates multiple persistent agents with the express goal of operating as an autonomous organization. Tasking, coordination, policy, principles.
agent-orchestrationsystems
Echo PrismaticArchitect + engineer
A voice demuxer middleware. Derives speakers, emotions, tone, and more. Tracks conversation and enables dynamic agentic monitoring and intelligent tool calls.
↳ continues Echo
voiceagent-orchestrationcontext
2025
WritingAuthor
Essays on systems thinking, agent orchestration, creative process, and developer tooling.
agent-orchestrationsystems
2024
8831-collagerDeveloper
Builds collages from the GeoCities 88x31 button archive.
toolingart
EchoCreator + sole developer
A completely-local-compute, voice-to-voice AI assistant — no cloud, the whole STT → LLM → TTS loop running on your own GPU.
voicecontextlocal-compute
ArXverDeveloper
Turns a Twitter archive into a browsable, tagged blog.
tooling
2022
Exploring Ransomware on the Oculus Quest 2Author — MS thesis, Louisiana Tech University (advisor: Dr. W. Bradley Glisson)
Master's thesis (MS, Computer Science): does Android ransomware actually work against a standalone VR headset? Built a proof-of-concept and tested it on the Oculus Quest 2.
↳ continues Cursory Assessment of the Oculus Quest 2 + permEnum
securityresearch
2021
permEnumDeveloper
Android permission-checking app — enumerates app permissions on-device.
securityandroid
Cursory Assessment of the Oculus Quest 2Author — security research paper, Louisiana Tech University
A wide-breadth security & forensics assessment that maps the attack surface of standalone VR hardware — the reverse-engineering groundwork that fed directly into my ransomware thesis.
securityresearch
2020
autoOthelloDeveloper
Plays Othello — minimax AI with an optional learning mode.
aigames
DigitNeuralNetJavaDeveloper
A from-scratch neural network for handwritten-digit recognition (AI coursework).
ai
Digital Twinning for the Air ForceTeam lead — led 4 undergraduates; held a Secret security clearance
A year (2020–2021) in a secure facility: led a team of four undergraduates building a digital twin that tracked individual units' radio signal strength inside a battlespace simulation, in near-real-time.
securityreverse-engineeringsimulationleadership
2019
BabbleBotCo-creator — three-person Hack Week team
A Discord bot that generates predictive text with Markov chains (plus a tongue-in-cheek 'Boomer Mode') — built for Discord Hack Week 2019.
nlp
MoDCreator + lead — senior capstone, built by a six-person team
A framework bot that runs hand-crafted text-adventure worlds (MUDs) inside Discord, with cross-server shared game state.
systemsframeworksmultiplayer
2018
PascalColoredDeveloper
Color-coded generator for Pascal's triangle — a visual math toy.
mathviz
2014
Eagle ScoutEagle Scout
Earned the rank of Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America (2014) — the BSA's highest advancement rank.
leadership