joshua paul
PORTFOLIO / 2026

AI Engineer and
Creative Technologist

I’m Joshua. My work explores MCP systems,
model fine-tuning, and AI at the edge.

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FIELD NOTES / THREE RESEARCH THREADSCONNECT. ADAPT. DEPLOY.
01 / CONNECT

MCP systems

AI client → tool server → capabilities.
A request goes out. A response comes back.

02 / ADAPT

Model fine-tuning

Task examples, model adaptation, evaluation.
A process of testing and refining.

03 / DEPLOY

Edge AI

Sensor input → local model → output.
Explore what can happen on the device.

CONNECT / MCP SYSTEMS

Giving models a way to act.

My research includes Model Context Protocol: the connection between AI applications, tool servers, and external capabilities. The sketch follows a request across that boundary.

Research areas · conceptual illustrations
01 / ABOUT

Technical by practice.
Curious by nature.

I’m Joshua Paul, an AI engineer, Purdue graduate, and Air Force veteran. I bring a technical foundation and a creative point of view to the systems I build.

This is a space for the systems I build, the ideas I test, and the experiments in between.

MS in Artificial Intelligence Purdue University · GraduatedAir Force veteran Service meets curiosity
02 / CURRENT PROJECTS

Work in progress.

Building tools for the next generation of intelligent systems.

Hermit crab mascot HERMIT / EXECUTION STUDY
01 — AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

Hermit

An ephemeral runtime for autonomous AI agents and MCP tools, designed around isolated execution.

AI agentsMCPMicro-VMs
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The idea behind it

Give agent tool calls a disposable environment. Hermit’s published architecture describes Firecracker micro-VMs, restricted networking, and output redaction, followed by teardown after execution.

Conceptual animation of the execution lifecycle.