I secure and scale Kubernetes and cloud-native systems, with a focus on reliable delivery, infrastructure-as-code, and security embedded in the platform.https://davidmgray.com/en-ushttps://davidmgray.com/blog/connecting-the-dots-sign-language-ai/https://davidmgray.com/blog/connecting-the-dots-sign-language-ai/Looking back at my senior capstone project at Missouri State — building a real-time American Sign Language smart home controller with MediaPipe, custom CNNs, and networking — and how it sparked my path in machine learning.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaimachine-learningcomputer-visiontensorflowmediapipecapstonehttps://davidmgray.com/blog/neural-cost-gpu-benchmark/https://davidmgray.com/blog/neural-cost-gpu-benchmark/The neural-cost v0.2.0 GPU benchmark moves from CPU roofline analysis to Apple Silicon's MPS GPU backend — measuring PyTorch and JAX across five architectures, four batch sizes, and both eager and compiled execution modes.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTmlperformancebenchmarkspytorchjaxgpuapple-siliconhttps://davidmgray.com/blog/ml-framework-comparison/https://davidmgray.com/blog/ml-framework-comparison/An empirical investigation comparing PyTorch 2.14, JAX 0.11, and TensorFlow across five model architectures and four batch sizes, measuring compiler speedups, kernel overheads, and hardware limits on Apple Silicon.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTmlperformancebenchmarkspytorchjaxtensorflowhttps://davidmgray.com/blog/neural-cost/https://davidmgray.com/blog/neural-cost/A framework-neutral Python library that estimates a neural network's FLOPs and tensor traffic, measures its runtime, and uses a roofline model to tell you exactly where performance is being left on the table.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTmlperformancepythonpytorchjaxtensorflowhttps://davidmgray.com/blog/why-i-rebuilt-this-site/https://davidmgray.com/blog/why-i-rebuilt-this-site/The old site was a single 41,000-character index.html. Every change was archaeology. Here is what I replaced it with and why the constraint was maintenance, not design.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrowebtooling