Joshua Ferguson

Founder & Principal Engineer, VeriSwarm · AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
Phoenix, AZ | veriswarm.ai | GitHub | LinkedIn

Professional Summary

Founder building trust infrastructure for AI agents at VeriSwarm. Over a decade of experience in infrastructure automation, cloud architecture, and systems development. Built a production SaaS platform from zero — scoring engine, policy enforcement, compliance infrastructure, MCP server, and framework integrations — in 3 months as a solo founder. Deep expertise in Python, Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, and containerization. Background spans enterprise infrastructure (7 global data centers), cloud center of excellence leadership, and multi-user platform development.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Multi-Datacenter Integration

Platforms & Tools

Platform Engineering, Developer Tools, Container Orchestration, Go

Programming & Scripting

Go, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, C#

Professional Experience

Founder & Principal Engineer

March 2026 - Present
VeriSwarm - Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents
  • Founded and built VeriSwarm, a trust scoring and governance SaaS for AI-agent ecosystems. Sole developer from concept to production-ready platform in 3 months.
  • Engineered a deterministic scoring engine with 24 weighted behavioral signals across five trust dimensions (identity, risk, reliability, autonomy, calibration), 11 preset scoring profiles, and real-time policy enforcement returning allow/review/deny decisions. Calibration dimension uses Brier scoring with Murphy decomposition to measure how accurately agents predict their own success.
  • Built seven product pillars: Gate (trust scoring, policy tiers), Guard (PII tokenization proxy, prompt-injection scanning, kill switch), Passport (verified identity, portable ES256 JWT credentials), Vault (hash-chained immutable audit ledger), Cortex (cost-optimized LLM routing, semantic caching, OpenAI-compatible proxy), Fleet (agent templates, 29 integrations), and Cortex Workflows (YAML-driven automation).
  • Developed a 90+ tool MCP server with setup wizard for Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex, plus automatic PII-guarding hooks. Built LangChain framework adapter for automatic agent instrumentation and a 33-test adversarial red-team harness.
  • Operate production on a self-hosted 3-node HA Kubernetes (k3s, embedded etcd) cluster: Helm-deployed workloads, CloudNativePG 3-instance Postgres with continuous WAL archiving and point-in-time recovery to object storage, Traefik ingress behind a Cloudflare tunnel, zero-downtime rolling deploys. Compliance-ready AWS reference architecture in Terraform (9 modules) with SOC 2, ISO 42001, and EU AI Act readiness.
  • Full-stack: FastAPI (Python), Next.js 16 (TypeScript/React), PostgreSQL, Redis, 1,300+ automated tests across API, scoring, and frontend suites.

Systems Engineer

April 2024 - Present
Arizona Department of Transportation - Phoenix, AZ
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts and software to solve business needs across multiple platforms using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and C#, collaborating with internal customers and external vendors
  • Lead infrastructure automation and integration initiatives across multiple public and private data centers
  • Participate in Cloud Center of Excellence to plan, design, and develop enterprise AWS cloud presence

Sr. Network Engineer (Contract)

August 2021 - March 2024
Arizona Department of Transportation (via ABCS Corp) - Phoenix, AZ
  • Contract engineer supporting ADOT infrastructure automation and integration; converted to direct ADOT employment in April 2024

Infrastructure Architect

July 2013 - June 2020
Ensono - Tempe, AZ
  • Architected, deployed, integrated, and managed cloud platform automation infrastructure across 7 global data centers supporting ~7,000 VMs for ~400 enterprise customers
  • Built provisioning automation that cut VM delivery time to ~30 minutes end-to-end on an industry-leading managed cloud platform
  • Developed and maintained automation software, scripts, processes, and workflows powering platform operations at scale

Associate Services Consultant

October 2010 - May 2013
CA Technologies - Scottsdale, AZ
  • Deployed and configured CA Technologies products for enterprise clients
  • Troubleshot product and client environment issues with minimal supervision
  • Created and edited client-specific product documentation
  • Provided on-site and remote customer support

Projects & Contributions

APEX (Autonomous Product Engineering eXecutor)

2025 - Present
github.com/JoshuaAFerguson/APEX
  • Creator and lead developer of APEX, a multi-agent orchestration platform for automated software development built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK.
  • Engineered a "product team in a box" with specialized AI agents for planning, implementation, testing, and code review.
  • Implemented advanced Git worktree management for parallel task execution and a real-time web UI for monitoring.
  • Showcased expertise in TypeScript, multi-agent systems, and building extensible, enterprise-ready platforms.

Streamspace

2025 - Present
github.com/streamspace-dev/streamspace
  • Lead developer of Streamspace, an open-source multi-user container streaming platform built with Go.
  • Engineered a robust platform capable of streaming any application, anywhere, demonstrating expertise in distributed systems and containerization.
  • Designed and implemented an extensible plugin architecture, fostering a community of contributors and expanding platform capabilities.

Terminal Velocity

2025 - Present
github.com/JoshuaAFerguson/terminal-velocity
  • Created a multiplayer space trading and combat game playable entirely over SSH, showcasing skills in Go, network programming, and state management.
  • Developed a unique text-based user interface and real-time multiplayer experience.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology
DeVry University
2006 - 2010