TRACEOS Our flagship — automated compliance for medical device software INFER High-speed model inference, engineered to a published speed floor — pre-launch

Applied AI engineering · Atlanta · est. 2005

Seven technology waves. Every one shipped.

ETG is a principal-led engineering firm and the parent company of TraceOS. Twenty-five years of production systems — client-server to cloud, FDA-cleared devices to LLM pipelines — now applied to the problems AI actually creates: cost, reliability, and proof.

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140×fewer input tokens per LLM call — a 24,000-token default configuration engineered down to ~170
10×prompt-cache unit-cost reduction on live workloads
8,800+automated tests across the founder-built product codebases
25 yrsof shipped systems, kernel to cloud

The arc

Reinvented for every platform shift since the nineties

Each wave below was a working practice — engagements delivered, systems in production — not a line on a skills list. The pattern is the product: ETG builds command of each platform while it is still emerging.

1994 – 2005Client-server & enterprise workflowCustom CRM platform that enabled and billed over $750M in six years, with less than one hour of unscheduled downtime per year.
1998 – 2005Database & data architectureOracle administration, heterogeneous systems consolidation, failover clustering for the platforms above.
2000 – 2008Business intelligence & warehousingSole architect of a flagship risk data-warehouse product: metadata-driven ETL engine, BI portal, dashboards.
2010 – 2017Mobile & Android architectureApplications shipped under national brands — Citi ThankYou Rewards, FiServ, MTV, ParkMobile, First Data — across loyalty commerce, payments, streaming media, and point of sale.
2017 – 2021Medical-device engineering leadershipBuilt a 20-engineer organization from zero; FDA 510(k) clearance with no deficiencies; foundation for a Series A valued at $120M.
2021Executive platform leadershipVP of Platform Services: tele-radiology pipeline and device-fleet management on production ML — TensorFlow in the loop, 2021.
2022 →Applied AI & LLM systemsTraceOS, founder-built end to end: compliance-ready Linux imaging, critical-path detection through customer source code and its operating-system coupling, and automated risk detection for regulated software.

Services

Structured engagements, each with a number attached

Fixed-scope first: audit, report, remediation. Each engagement ends in a measurable result, delivered with methods proven on ETG's own production codebases before they reach a client.

Fixed-scope audit

LLM Token-Cost Reduction

A cost audit of your LLM workloads — prompt architecture, caching, model routing, thinking budgets — followed by a remediation plan and implementation oversight.

24,000 → 170 input tokens per call · 2.3B tokens of forensics
Stand-up engagement

Development Factory Setup

Stand up agent-assisted engineering for your team: instruction architecture, custom audit subagents, eval harnesses, coverage gates, and release automation.

Two production codebases transitioned and running
Fractional / advisory

Executive AI Consulting

Fractional AI-CTO: strategy, build-vs-buy, organization design for AI-assisted engineering, and board-level education from someone who still reads the code.

25 years of engineering leadership, exec to kernel
For investors

AI Technical Due Diligence

Evaluate a target's AI claims, architecture, and cost structure before the term sheet.

Regulated markets

Provenance & Reliability

Auditable LLM pipelines: input snapshots, prompt versioning, output contracts, eval gates.

Fixed-scope build

Agent Eval Harness Design

Prove your agent works: scripted end-to-end evals with assertion suites and token budgets.

Training

Leadership AI Enablement

Mentoring engineering managers and principals to run AI-assisted organizations.

The program

The Development Factory

The tooling for AI-assisted engineering changes weekly. ETG's Development Factory evaluates every emerging tool and method on real production codebases — measuring quality, speed, and cost before anything reaches a client. What ETG recommends is what ETG has already shipped with.

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Orchestrate Build Verify Measure Refine agent fleets scoped units tests · evals cost · speed · quality lessons → practice THE FACTORY every pass measured

Active Portfolio

Built and operating at ETG

LIVE

TraceOS

IEC 62304-compliant Linux images and distributions: automated compliance reviews, managed audit-ready documentation, SBOM and CVE surveillance, and provable provenance for every artifact.

traceos.tech
PRE-LAUNCH

Infer

High-speed GPU model inference on OpenRouter, engineered to a published speed floor.

infer.industries
PRIVATE PREVIEW

flip

Consumer video curation: shareable, snap-scrolling reels with creator analytics built in.

STEALTH

Simulation engine

Zero-tick discrete-event simulation engine driving a persistent economy at 100k-unit scale.

CLIENT

Prestidigital

Medicare claims data processing and informatics: engineering continuity, build infrastructure, and data-quality frameworks for a healthcare data organization.

GRANTED

Medical imaging patent

US 11,207,047 B2 — filed and granted across multiple jurisdictions.

oxos.com

Engagement

Bring a hard problem

Engagements start with a consult, not a pitch: your codebase, your cost data, your constraints — and a concrete read on what's achievable.

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