Building production software
Independent full-stack engineering, followed by enterprise applications and applied AI systems.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK
Always
curious.
Researcher. Engineer. Filmmaker. Author.
A few ways of asking what comes next.
A CONNECTED PRACTICE
Intelligence is a technical question.
And a human one.
Richard Everts works across research, production engineering, and public storytelling. He has built software professionally since 2010, with experience in Python, full-stack applications, computer vision, retrieval systems, and agent orchestration. At Deep SIML Labs, his work investigates simulation, cognitive systems, and the relationship between models and the physical world. He also publishes as The Operator. At Bestie Bot, he combined engineering leadership with research into assistive technology and multimodal sensing, including a PennAITech-supported home-monitoring pilot. Beyond engineering, he directed, produced, and edited The United States of Autism, a documentary following families across America. His books explore personal fulfillment and political possibility. A philosophy graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, he brings questions about minds, agency, and lived experience into both technical and creative work.
The thread running through this work is human agency: how people understand the world, how systems can help, and where the decisions still belong to us. An engineering project, a film, and a book can be different ways of investigating that same thread.
I publish as Richard Everts, Rich Everts, Richard C. Everts, and The Operator. This site brings that record together, with links to the original work and the people involved.
The Operator & the SIML CodexHOW THE THREAD UNFOLDED
A continuing exploration.
The United States of Autism
A documentary journey across America, directed, produced, and edited by Richard Everts.
Sharing AI in public
Lancaster AI talks and community learning, followed by conference sessions on intelligence and its implications.
Bestie Bot
Technical leadership at the intersection of assistive technology, computer vision, and AI.
Two books, wider questions
Light Up the Grind and On Terran Liberty: Volume 1 connect personal experience with questions of freedom and possibility.
The AIR Strategy Framework
A national-security paper centered on energy efficiency, essential resources, and embodiment.
Deep SIML Labs
Independent research across simulation, cognitive systems, and scientific discovery; philosophical work also published as The Operator.
FOUNDATIONS
Thinking deeply.
Building practically.
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Franklin & Marshall College
Scientific and Philosophical Studies of the Mind, including AI and neuroscience.
Research, invention & recognition
- Inventor, US11388238B2: Localized situational intelligent awareness from multiple sensor types through a 4-dimensional state system; granted July 12, 2022.
- Runner-up, Federalist Society Future of AI in Law Symposium for National Security (2024), for the AI Rollback (AIR) Strategy Framework.
- AWS Machine Learning Foundations, Udacity (2022).
- Robotics Software Engineer, Udacity (2019).
- Build a Modern Computer from First Principles, Coursera (2017).