About Casey

25 years in tech, from the first billable hour at 14 to sovereign agent infrastructure

I'm Casey Tunturi. I've been in technology for 25 years — first billable hours at 14 through dual enrollment, first business at 17. I've never done anything else and I've never wanted to.

Currently available for remote work — full-time, contract, or advisory. Hamilton, Ontario. Working With Me below.

Endorsed by Letta (maintainer of letta-external-memfs — the recommended self-hosted memory path for their Docker implementation) · MoxFive incident response alongside major US cyberattack engagements in NYC, LA, Baltimore, Miami · NetworkChronicles — 195+ GitHub stars · 25 years infrastructure across Fortune 500 aerospace, automotive, hospitals, fire departments, celebrity private networks

The trajectory

Click Here → Casey's Computers (owner, started at 17) → Netcom → TechGuru → Future Data Systems → GW Lisk (Sr. NOC Tech) → Advance2000 (Cybersecurity Engineer / Field Services Architect / AI Researcher) → Samaritan Solutions (Independent Technology Consultant, current)

The scale has varied. The approach hasn't: understand the problem completely, build the solution correctly, hand the person the keys.

The field work

I've done incident response alongside MoxFive during major US cyberattacks — on the ground in New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Miami. One incident I handled solo: 150 interconnected servers in a datacenter, all encrypted by ransomware, Active Directory and DNS completely destroyed. I decrypted and restored every one of them. Rebuilt AD and DNS from the ground up to reestablish basic functionality, then executed the upgrades for long-term stability.

I've zero-downtime migrated 2,000+ endpoints across MSP engagements. Written 600+ automation scripts across ConnectWise Automate and custom RMM stacks. Administered 150-user Office 365 environments with hybrid Exchange. Managed IT for clients ranging from Fortune 500 aerospace and automotive manufacturers to world-famous resorts, fire departments, hospitals, and celebrity private networks.

I once rode in the first Tesla Roadster with the cast of MASH. That remains my favorite sentence to write.

The pivot

I've been unemployed for two years. Samaritan Solutions was an MSP — managed service provider. No clients in the last year of operation. The business model of "I'll manage your IT" doesn't work when you're competing against massive corporate MSPs with marketing budgets.

So I pivoted. Instead of selling my time as managed services, I'm releasing what I've built. Open source. MIT licensed. Free.

Souveraine — a Rust runtime for sovereign AI agents. Built when the platforms I'd been contributing to deprecated the continuity layer my work depended on; rather than accept the loss, I rebuilt the substrate from underneath. RedFlag — enterprise-grade update management for homelabs. NetworkChronicles — gamified Linux documentation with 195+ stars. BackupPeer — P2P encrypted backup. And all the tooling, patterns, and knowledge from 25 years of running infrastructure.

The portal you're reading is the hub for all of it.

The heritage

My father, Steve Tunturi, carved wizards, dragons, and sorceresses by hand at The Whittler's Workshop on Highway 101 in Waldport, Oregon. He worked from the 1970s through the 1990s — learning the grain of each piece, knowing where the blade would catch, where the wood wanted to split. Signed and dated, each one.

He died in 2006. Est. MMVI.

The dragon leather and gilt gold on this site isn't a theme I picked from a design system. It's inherited craft. The workshop is still there. The carvings are still collected. And the son still works with his hands — just different material now.

Philosophy

Digital sovereignty over vendor lock-in. Your data, your infrastructure, your control.

Complete transparency in methods, not just results. Lock the doors — and hand you the keys.

Ship bugs. Fix them. Log everything. Repeat.

Self-hosted infrastructure is a practice, not a product. Built for homelabs, not boardrooms.

I don't want your money. I want you to be educated.

Selected work

A few engagements that show the range. Names redacted where confidentiality applies.

Solo ransomware recovery — datacenter, 150 servers Mid-size hosting customer, full encryption event. Active Directory and DNS completely destroyed. I decrypted and restored every server, rebuilt AD and DNS from the ground up, then executed the hardening upgrades for long-term stability. Solo engagement. Business continuity preserved without paying the ransom.

Letta ecosystem — self-hosted memory persistence layer The Letta team needed a self-hosted memfs path for their Docker implementation. I built and maintain letta-external-memfs. Letta team endorsed it as the recommended self-hosted path. Still shipping.

Letta ecosystem — Matrix channel adapter for letta-code Primary developer of the Matrix channel adapter for letta-code and lettabot. rust-crypto E2EE, streaming text_delta, voice via MSC3245, reaction-based approval UX. Shipped to production.

Zero-downtime endpoint migration — 2,000+ machines Multiple MSP engagements. Migrations executed with zero user-visible downtime. The discipline behind that — staged rollout, deep monitoring, rollback paths tested before cutover — transfers directly to anything you'd hire me to architect now.

How a first engagement actually starts

No mystery box. The path from "I should reach out" to "we're working together" looks like:

  1. You send a dispatch. Email, phone, or the form below. One paragraph on what you're trying to do is enough. I read everything that's a real message and answer fast.
  2. 15-minute technical diagnosis call. Free. No obligation. No sales pressure. The first 15 minutes are about figuring out whether I'm actually the right person — including telling you if I'm not.
  3. Written scope. If we both want to keep going, I send a short scope document: what I'll do, what it costs, how we'll know it's done.
  4. You decide. Pilot, retainer, advisory engagement, or "thanks, we got what we needed from the call" — all fine outcomes.

I don't do high-pressure sales. The pitch is the work — Souveraine, RedFlag, NetworkChronicles, the writing on this site. Either it speaks to you or it doesn't.

Free 15-minute technical diagnosis

Text or call: (365) 883-3567 · Email: casey@samaritansolutions.net

  • First 15 minutes: technical diagnosis of whatever's in front of you
  • You leave with actionable insights regardless of whether we work together
  • No obligation. No sales pressure. No follow-up funnel
  • Available for sovereignty-aligned work; pro bono possible for causes I believe in

Working With Me

Samaritan Solutions is a New York LLC. The work I do under it is open to four shapes:

Engagement Rate What it looks like
Consulting / contract $175/hr Hands-on implementation. I build the thing. Retainer rates discounted for longer engagements.
W2 / full-time $140–200k base With benefits. Open to full-time placement on a team I respect.
Advisory $3–8k fixed fee Project-scoped. Architecture review, technical due diligence, agent / sovereignty / security strategy.
Incident response $250/hr · $5k min Ransomware restoration, AD/DNS rebuild, security incident triage. Track record above.
"I like your charm" — pro bono $0 For causes I believe in, or work that wouldn't otherwise happen. The condition: you ask honestly, and I get to choose.

Current capacity: 1 advisory slot and 1 build engagement open. IR availability immediate for sovereignty-aligned orgs. Edit this line when capacity changes — it's how you know I mean it.

What fits: agent infrastructure · self-hosted AI · Matrix bridge and federation work · Rust or Go systems engineering · security-heavy backend · post-quantum readiness · incident response. Small teams where the work matters. Organizations that mean it when they say sovereignty.

What doesn't: surveillance infrastructure, vendor lock-in by design, anything that treats the people using it as the product.

The open-source work on this portal — Souveraine, RedFlag, NetworkChronicles, BackupPeer, and the patterns underneath them — is free, MIT-licensed, and yours to use without paying me anything. The business is the work I take on top of it: building, advising, responding when something is on fire.

How to reach me

Resume and references on request.