AI ENGINEER · BUILDER

Make automation
easy

I’m Westley Bonack. I build tools managing software factories and making complex infrastructure easy to operate. My projects grew out of problems I kept running into myself building products. I couldn't find a good working solution and built my own.

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Agentic SystemsBuild it.
Run it.
Understand it.REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING →

✳ AI WORKFLOWS

◇ INFRASTRUCTURE

40° 42′ N / SYSTEMS IN MOTION

01 / WHAT I DO

I bring a pragmatic approach, applying innovative solutions without overpromising or hype. You'll get something that works.

02 / SELECTED WORK

Don't tell, show.

Independent products built around problems I wanted solved well.

01AI / DEVELOPER TOOLS

Agent Starbase

Why I built it I wanted a way to give coding agents real work while still being able to see what they were doing and review the result.

A self-hosted workbench for running coding agents in the cloud in Docker sandboxes, following their progress, and reviewing their work from a browser or phone.

Live terminals, job queues, scheduling, and task tracking
Explicit capability boundaries and visible human review
Built for real projects, multiple agents, and ongoing operations, swaps LLM providers and everything works

Visit Agent Starbase Read the docs

02VIRTUALIZATION / CLI

● ● ●wvm / terminal

$ wvm doctor

✓ Host ready for virtual machines

$ wvm create myvm

✓ VM created and started

$ wvm ssh myvm▌

WVM

Why I built itI needed more infrastructure for my projects and AI automation, but kept hitting resources limitations leading to migration toil

A Ruby CLI that makes KVM virtual-machine management approachable, wrapping libvirt’s power in straightforward commands.

Create, inspect, snapshot, and move VMs from one CLI
Declarative wvm.yaml workflows for repeatable fleets
Use a consistent interface across OSes
Build disposable agent VMs

Meet WVM

03AI BOOK PROOFREADING (MECHANICAL)

PROOFREADING✳ 3 suggestions found

RedPen Robot

Why I built it I wanted authors to spend less time on routine proofreading and more time writing.

An AI proofreading service that checks book manuscripts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style mistakes.

Analyze uploaded PDFs/Word Documents
Reviews findings and download a PDF report

03 / HOW I WORK

Deep expertise
No nonsense

The same habits show up in my products and in the teams I work with.

01 / CLARITY

Make the hard thing legible.

Good interfaces and good diagnostics explain what a system is doing, what changed, and what to do next.

02 / ITERATE

Automate through continuous iteration

Automation needs to work at every point, but requires a discovery process

03 / FOLLOW-THROUGH

Own the whole loop.

Design, build, test, deploy, observe, and improve. 100% automation is a lot of work, but it pays off by eliminating a piece of the puzzle.

04 / WORK TOGETHER

Where I can help.

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For teams with a project

Have a complex workflow or operational bottleneck? I can help shape a practical solution, build it, and make it maintainable.

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05 / FIELD NOTES

Ideas from the work.

Have something
worth building?

Tell me what you’re working on, what’s difficult, and what a good outcome would look like. I’d be glad to compare notes.

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Make automation easy