Ardeshir Sepahsalar

سپهسالار

Building resilient distributed systems for 20+ years. Now applying that experience to AI infrastructure for weather prediction and regenerative economics.

Connect

Why Weather AI?

"Systems must be designed for collapse, because collapse is not exceptional—it's inevitable."

— Design philosophy from lived experience

The Connection

My trajectory through distributed systems, linguistics, and regenerative economics isn't random—it's preparation for exactly this kind of work:

  • Kubernetes orchestration → containers that survive node failures = atmospheric models that survive prediction errors
  • Infrastructure-as-code → reproducible deployments = reproducible ML experiments
  • Cross-subscription management → navigating bureaucratic boundaries = navigating forecast ensemble uncertainty
Diaspora → Resilience

The Iranian diaspora of 1979 produced builders who couldn't go home, so they built new infrastructures. I'm in this lineage, but with a twist: building post-nation-state infrastructure explicitly.

Weather forecasting is planetary infrastructure. It doesn't respect borders. GraphCast processes the entire Earth simultaneously. That resonates.

Background

2018 - Present
Cargill — Cloud Platform Architect
Designing PaaS platforms with infrastructure as code for distributed AWS/Azure services. Cross-team collaboration, executive representation.
2020 - Present
Univrs.io — Founder (Side Project)
Building DOL (Domain-Oriented Language) compiler and WASM runtime. CryptoSaint.io regenerative credit network. BRICS Pay bridge exploration.
2009 - 2016
Hennepin Technical College — Systems Architect
Lead Software Architect. AWS/Azure cloud services. National Paragon GOLD Medallion Awards (2011, 2012, 2016).
2000 - 2010
Minneapolis/Hennepin County Libraries
Web Coordinator → Senior Systems Integrator. Distributed systems for library management, photo collections, HR workflows.
1996
University of Minnesota — B.A.
Communication Disorders, Speech Pathology, Middle-Persian (Pahlavi). Linguistics foundation → NLP intuition → complex system modeling.
Technical Skills
Golang Rust Python JAX TensorFlow PyTorch Kubernetes AWS Azure Terraform Docker GNN WASM Compilers
Awards
  • GOLD Paragon Award 2016
  • GOLD Medallion 2012
  • Paragon Web Services 2011
Location

Minneapolis, MN
Open to relocation

Current Project: Univrs.io

Univrs.io is my current focus — building infrastructure for regenerative economics. The technical stack includes:

  • DOL Compiler: Domain-Oriented Language with 93 keywords, 454 tests. Compiles to WASM.
  • VUDO VM: WASM runtime with sandboxed execution
  • CryptoSaint.io: Regenerative credit network
  • BRICS Pay Bridge: Cross-border value transfer exploration

The connection to weather AI: both are about building resilient systems that can't be taken away. Decentralized protocols when institutions fail. Probabilistic forecasts when certainty is impossible.

The Thesis

"The best infrastructure builders are people who've lived through infrastructure failure."

Trauma + intellect + technical skill + historical consciousness = the ability to see what people who've never lost everything can't see.