Greaybeard GuildENGINEERING / WITH EXPERIENCE
01 / THE WORKSTATION
Thoughtful by design.

FOUNDERS & PARTNERS

Three kinds of curiosity.
One working standard.

Graybeard Guild is taking shape. Samuel Kesterson is the named founder and contact. Two prospective founding partners remain private for now.

01 / THE PUBLIC CONTACT

Samuel Kesterson

Brainchild · Systems architect · Founder

Google Cloud Certified · Professional Cloud Architect

Samuel works across software, systems design and cloud architecture. He is drawn to the whole system: what a user meant, what the code does, what production will tolerate and who makes the next decision.

His path runs through early PCs, Slackware-era Linux and years of building and operating systems. He is a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect and the person to contact about the Guild and TUHFFF.

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02 / PRIVATE PARTNER

The embedded systems mind

Prospective founding partner · Hardware & firmware

A hands-on tinkerer in microcontrollers, firmware and security research. The work spans ESP32, STM32 and the messy boundary between a board and the larger system it joins.

Identity and individual research details stay private until the partner chooses to share them.

03 / PRIVATE PARTNER

The software veteran

Prospective founding partner · Software & operations

He has written software for longer than most teams have had an internet connection. During overnight shifts tending a university time-sharing system in the 1980s, a repeatedly failing backup became an invitation to learn the code and fix the process.

He remains happiest writing software, with deep Unix and Linux experience and a working life often spent on Apple systems.

WORK WITH US

Experience has a job to do.

Bring the problem to Samuel. We can decide together which minds it needs.

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