THE ENGINEER / RUSS
BOOTS IN THE FIELD.
HANDS ON THE CODE.
I’m a building automation engineer. I use AI aggressively across my work, and I’m building the tools I want on the next service call.
THE POINT OF THIS PLACE
THE WORK IS REAL.
SO ARE THE QUESTIONS.
My world is BACnet, Niagara, Desigo, HVAC controls, and the practical business of making building systems behave. AI is already part of how I analyze information, write software, build tools, and work through engineering problems.
A convincing answer is the starting point. I care about what survives contact with the building. That means understanding the system, checking the result, and knowing when the next useful step is back at the equipment.
This is the home for that work. Field notes from the questions I’m working through. Experiments you can inspect. Local specialists I’m developing to bring deeper expertise into the controls workflow.
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The purpose is useful engineering work. Keep the building and the technician in view.
Show your working.
Connect the observation to the explanation, and the explanation to a check worth making.
Keep expertise close.
Develop local specialists that can work with real system context inside existing controls workflows.