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SOFTWARE ENGINEER · AGENT DIRECTOR

Ralph Krausse

Ralph Krausse

Pollock used a brush. I use agents.

Building software is more of an art than ever — the instruments just changed. The work has shifted from implementation to management: of agents, of markdown files, of memory, of the collaboration between them.

I ship production software by directing AI coding agents — Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. The agents do the typing. The judgment about what is correct, what scales, and what to build next is mine, backed by a career of enterprise .NET, Angular, and Azure engineering.

Directed withClaude CodeOpenAI Codex
The workflow

How I make AI think

Every feature worth shipping outgrows the context window. Instead of fighting to keep it all in the model’s head, I push the state out — into one plain Markdown plan file the agent reads back at the start of every phase.

Three small skills run on that file: one plans, one implements, one builds the whole plan unattended. The context becomes disposable; the plan keeps the agents honest.

  • rpk-planInterrogates an idea into ordered, checkbox-tracked phases.
  • rpk-implementBuilds one phase, verifies it, leaves it uncommitted for review.
  • rpk-autobuildRuns every phase in a fresh context, one commit at a time.
Read the full workflow
contact.mdIn progress · 2 of 4 phases
Service

Military Service

United States Marine Corps (1988 - 1993)

  • Served in the 1st Persian Gulf War
  • Honorable Discharge from Military Service – Rank SergeantUnited States Marine Corps Sergeant rank insignia
  • Good Conduct Medal
  • Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal
  • Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
  • Navy Unit Commendation
  • Naval Arctic Service Ribbon
  • National Defense Service Medal
  • Southwest Asia Service Medal
  • Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
  • Kuwait Liberation Medal
Contact

Let’s talk

Always interested in good problems, projects, and the people building them. The fastest path is email.

mailtoralph.krausse@consiliumsoft.com

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