Maker. Coder. Traveler.
I'm Colby Wright — Director of Engineering for AI Engineering and Automation, and I still ship production AI with my own hands. Twenty years in, I've gone from enterprise application architecture to the technology behind large-scale pharmacy operations to building production agentic AI systems, both at work and on my own.
This site is where the independent side of that lives: the products, the home-lab AI, and the builds I publish for anyone who wants to follow along.
The Throughline
The short version: I don't stop at the demo. I design the architecture, write the code, wire it into real systems, and make it survivable in production. That's been true for two decades — through enterprise app architecture, a decade-plus building the technology behind large-scale pharmacy operations, and today leading AI engineering and automation as Director of Engineering at a Fortune-10 healthcare company.
What's rare isn't any one of those things — it's the combination: an enterprise leader who personally architects and builds production agentic AI, with the enterprise credibility of a director role and the shipping speed of an independent builder.
What I Build
Enterprise AI Platforms
As Director of Engineering for AI Engineering and Automation at a Fortune-10 healthcare company, I architect and build multi-agent AI operations-intelligence platforms across fulfillment sites nationwide — real-time operations control, process mining with drift detection, predictive analytics, and decision-support agents.
Shipped AI Products
Live SaaS I built and run: an autonomous AI video-commercial platform, a computational-geometry 3D-printing service, and a custom AI wellness platform with live wearable-data integration for a local studio.
Production Home AI
A locally-run, multi-machine AI assistant that runs my entire command center with zero cloud inference — two-tier local LLMs, a full voice pipeline, tool-calling automation, and triple-redundant disaster recovery.
Things That Move
3D printers running overnight, robotics and animatronics, home automation, edge AI on Jetson and DGX-class hardware. The physical builds that keep the software honest.
The Long Game
I started in enterprise application architecture and web development, ran my own web-dev and consulting business for a couple of years, then spent over a decade building the technology behind large-scale pharmacy operations — inventory and ERP integration, system hardening, deep database work. Today that same domain has evolved into AI platforms. The current work isn't a reinvention; it's the AI-era continuation of what I've been doing since 2011.
I also love to travel — 30+ countries and counting — and I always hunt down the local maker scenes: electronics markets, hackerspaces, and tech districts. Building things, wherever I am.
My Setup
Connect
If your business wants AI that does real work — agentic automation, integration, or strategy from someone who's actually built it — let's talk. I'm building in public here, and most active on LinkedIn and GitHub.