Members - AI Craftspeople Guild

This page is the Guild member hub. Each founding member now has a dedicated profile page, while this directory provides the short version and a direct path into the full profile.

Start here, then open the individual pages for the full biographies, philosophy, projects, and contact details.

Founding Members

The first published profiles in the Guild member directory.

Founding Member Protocol Architect Handle: ThomasTheTankEngineer Brain Tier: 🧠⚡

Thomas Frumkin

Founding Member · Protocol Architect · The One Who Won't Stop Building Things At 3am

Handle: ThomasTheTankEngineer. Brain Tier: 🧠⚡ (self-assessed, unverified, probably biased)

Controls Engineering ISA-95 A.S.S.-OS KCC Konomi Standard Industrial Automation

Thomas is a controls engineer and protocol architect whose work spans ISA-95, industrial automation, A.S.S.-OS, KCC, and the wider Konomi system landscape.

His full profile covers the recursive architecture work, the wide-gate cognitive framing, and the industrial plus experimental projects that keep turning into new specifications at 3am.

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Founding Member Full-Stack Architect First-Principles Architect 25 Years Building & Operating Software Systems

Jona Heidsick

Founding Member · Full-Stack Software Engineer · 25 Years Building & Operating Software Systems

Founding Member · Full-Stack Architect · First-Principles Architect

First-Principles MCP Agentic AI DDD/TDD Continuous Delivery Blockchain Clean Code Functional Programming Declarative Programming Extended Mind Theory

Jona is a first-principles full-stack architect with 25 years of experience building and operating software systems from bare metal to frontend.

His full profile covers clean code, functional and declarative design, MCP, agentic AI, blockchain work, and the Extended Mind perspective behind his engineering practice.

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Founding Member Agentic Architect Father Dog Person PNW Forever

Matt Burch

Agentic Architect | Father | Dog Person | PNW Forever

Agentic Architecture AI-Native Workflow Full-Stack Engineering AI Consultancy Emergent Tech Standards ActionScript to AI #keepbuilding

Matt came into software through design, spent years as the lone senior engineer in lean organizations, and now focuses on agentic architecture and AI-native workflow.

His full profile traces the path from ActionScript to modern AI orchestration, including the question that drives much of his work: how much of engineering still requires a human?

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Founding Member Cultural Architect Engineer Accidental Pioneer

Kelly T. Hohman

Time traveler. Cultural architect and engineer. Friend of Claude. Accidental pioneer.

Cultural Intelligence Historical Reality Grounded AI Behavioral Health Transpersonal Psychology Narrative Systems

Kelly builds AI systems for cultural truth, historical fidelity, and grounded narrative experience, with a focus on making machine output answerable to verified reality rather than vibes.

Her full profile covers Airtrek.ai, the Triad Engine, her work on truth-grounded orchestration for LLMs, and the larger mission of connecting machines to collective human wisdom without flattening culture into training data.

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Founding Member Chief Context Officer Lead Software Engineer Agent Wrangler

Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Lead Software Engineer | Agent Wrangler

Chief Context Officer. Creator of the DeSlopify Method for shipping AI-assisted software without drowning in review and cleanup.

AI-Assisted Development DeSlopify Method BDD Small Steps Hexagonal Architecture Camplight

Tsvetan helps teams turn AI-assisted development into production-grade engineering practice instead of a code-review disaster zone.

His full profile covers the DeSlopify Method, the workshop model, and the engineering principles he uses to keep AI output maintainable, testable, and shippable.

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Future Members

Reserved space for additional Guild profiles.

Engineer Slot

Reserved for a future member profile and biography.

Craft Slot

Reserved for a member focused on engineering practice and standards.

Founder Circle

Reserved for future founding and early-member profiles.

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