About

I’m Conrad Rockenhaus: independent developer, infrastructure operator, and Navy combat veteran. This site is where I keep engineering notes, occasional findings, and the front doors to the things my crew and I build and run.

What I build

The flagship is Vivijure, a self-hosted AI film studio I wrote with my crew at Skyphusion Labs. Storyboard, cast, render orchestration on Cloudflare Workers, swappable GPU backends (your own iron, RunPod by the second, or cloud i2v APIs), and a CPU container media stack so concat, mux, and finishing work stay off the GPU bill. Free, AGPL-3.0, not for sale, never gated. Meet it at vivijure.skyphusion.org/welcome.

Around that sits Prism (multimodal AI playground), Postern (email for humans and agents), The Hollow Grid (federated MUD), Common Thread (OSINT attribution), and more. All open source. All yours to fork.

Skyphusion Labs

Everything ships under github.com/skyphusion-labs. The lab’s home page is skyphusion.org; the org’s GitHub landing page is github.skyphusion.org.

What I run

I operate my own infrastructure end to end, because owning the whole stack is the point: a fleet of Linux servers (five dedicated CPU, one dedicated GPU), cloud VMs wired through infrastructure-as-code, Cloudflare Tunnels for inbound, and nftables on the door.

The split is simple: skyphusion.net is my engineering blog; skyphusion.org is the lab’s front door.

Around the web

Tools of choice

Fedora Linux as a daily driver. Cloudflare Workers as a deployment platform. Self-hosting over SaaS wherever it makes sense. Node managed through nvm, configs kept honest, and a strong preference for understanding a system rather than trusting it.

Service

Before any of this, I served in the Navy, with deployments to Kosovo and Afghanistan attached to fire-support and signals-intelligence units. It shaped how I work: direct, prepared, and allergic to hand-waving.

Off the keyboard

When I’m not in a terminal, I’m usually deep in a home automation rabbit hole (HomeKit and Thread, mostly) or playing with home audio stuff.

Contact

Reach me at conrad@skyphusion.org.