Operating record / web edition
John Hughes Wilcox
Founder, Archon Digital LLC · Hospitality Technologist · AI Systems Engineer
Throughline
Profile
Hospitality operator turned applied-AI builder with twelve years leading restaurant teams of 8 to 80+ and full P&L responsibility. I understand the buyer, the frontline user, and the operational cost of technology that fails during service. At Archon Digital LLC, I carry production systems from discovery and technical scoping through deployment, documentation, training, observability, and iteration. The result is a rare operator-builder profile for hospitality-tech solutions, implementation, deployment, product operations, and AI automation.
Operating history
Experience
Archon Digital LLC
Omaha, NE / Remote · Jun 2026—Present
Founder & AI Systems Engineer
Full-time- Own the complete product loop: discovery, technical scoping, architecture, implementation, deployment, observability, and iteration against real usage.
- Design and ship autonomous multi-agent systems with tool use, multi-model routing, structured outputs, guardrails, trajectory and offline evaluations, plus LangSmith and OpenTelemetry tracing.
- Turn operator and customer pain into working pilots, then support rollout with monitoring, documentation, training, and reusable playbooks.
johnhugheswilcox.com · Independent Technology Practice
Remote · 2009—Jun 2026
AI / Agent Engineering
2022—Jun 2026- Developed an early generative-AI practice into applied agent engineering, then established Archon Digital as the full-time operating company in June 2026.
Freelance Web & E-commerce Developer
2009—Jun 2026- Long before generative AI, scoped, designed, built, launched, and maintained client storefronts and marketing sites—moving from hand-built HTML and Dreamweaver into WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Lovable, and Vercel.
Flagship Restaurant Group
Omaha, NE · Mar 2014—Jun 2026
Executive Chef · Multi-Unit Operations Leader
- Directed teams of 8 to 80+ through openings, event-driven demand peaks, and a concurrent seven-concept food hall where quality, timing, and frontline adoption were non-negotiable.
- Partnered across R&D, brand, front-of-house, and executive leadership; translated an operating brief into repeatable service standards and daily execution.
- Held full P&L responsibility across senior roles, including revenue, COGS, labor, vendor negotiation, training, and systems that scaled across multiple units.
KuDoKu Internet Services
Kansas City, MO · 2004
Web Development Intern
- Built and maintained client websites in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—the first professional chapter of a building practice that later became a full-time AI focus.
Built and operated
Selected systems
Agent-native digital-asset marketplace · Archon Digital LLC
ADAMforAgents (ADAM)
Live, commerce-hard-off preview with a versioned public catalog and agent-readable discovery surfaces for digital assets and licensing. Checkout, payments, entitlements, and delivery remain disabled while production-readiness gates are completed.
Autonomous operations system · Archon Digital
Archon Merkaba
A multi-agent operating system with a CEO-style router, MCP tool layer, and model routing. Its reliability layer includes live monitoring, alerting, circuit breakers, and kill-switch controls for always-on services.
Open-source LLM and agentic-AI security framework
ShadowShield
Defense-in-depth prompt-injection protection with multilingual detection, agent goal-hijack auditing, canary tokens, and secret and PII output scanning behind one API. Published with hundreds of automated tests and benchmark checks, strict typing, reproducible public-dataset benchmarks, and an OIDC release pipeline.
Multi-protocol crypto-intelligence API
Cerebrus Pulse
Real-time intelligence across 50+ Hyperliquid perpetuals, six timeframes, and 15 endpoints, load-tested below a 200ms p50. Distributed through an MCP server, Python SDK, LangChain toolkit, x402, Google A2A, and ACP.
Capabilities
Technical practice
- Agentic AI & LLM Engineering
- Multi-agent orchestration, tool use and function calling, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP servers and clients, multi-model routing, prompt and context engineering, structured outputs (Pydantic), RAG and grounding, guardrails, trajectory and offline evaluations, and observability with LangSmith and OpenTelemetry. Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Crush for AI-assisted delivery, agent harnesses including OpenClaw and Hermes, and production agents like GrokBot. Open-weight models including Llama, Qwen, and Mistral.
- Languages & Application Stack
- Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, asyncio, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Solidity, Bash, React, Next.js, Node.js, Tailwind, and REST APIs.
- Cloud, Infrastructure & Protocols
- Docker, Linux and VPS administration, GCP, Firebase, Vercel, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, SLO monitoring, n8n, Chroma DB, embeddings and hybrid search, MCP, Google A2A, ACP, x402, Hardhat, Viem, The Graph, Filecoin / IPFS, Base, Solana, and Hyperliquid.
- Web, Commerce & Generative Media
- Shopify, Webflow, WordPress, Squarespace, Lovable, responsive design, SEO, payment integrations, Adobe Creative Cloud, Leonardo.AI, Seedance, Veo, Sora, Replicate, ElevenLabs, ComfyUI, and CapCut.
- Forward-Deployed Practice
- Hospitality operations, POS/KDS workflows, P&L, COGS, labor, inventory, customer discovery, requirements translation, pilots, rollout, onboarding, documentation, and calm ownership under load.
Formal and continued study
Education & credentials
High-school equivalency
Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska
Google career certificates
Google AI Professional Certificate
GoogleGoogle Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
Google Career Certificates
Technical foundation
Foundations of Web Development
AIM Institute
Continued professional learning
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Hands-On with Agentic AI
LinkedIn LearningAgentic AI Fundamentals · Build Agents with OpenClaw
LinkedIn LearningIntegrating Generative AI into Business Strategy
LinkedIn LearningAI Foundations: Machine Learning · AI in Project Management
LinkedIn LearningBecoming an AI-First Product Leader
LinkedIn Learning