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John Carmack

AI/LLM and geospatial/GPU software engineer. Rust and TypeScript. I build production LLM systems, GPU map rendering, and the cloud infrastructure that runs them. Lately: primary author of a safety-critical aviation flight-planning desktop app, lone architect of a real-time analytics platform. Remote, based in Waco, TX.

Not the Doom guy. Different guy.

Currently: production LLM tooling (the boring reliability parts) and a weather + energy data platform.

What I build

  • Production AI/LLM applications - schema-validated data extraction, LLM gateways, structured output, and the eval harnesses that keep them honest.
  • High-performance maps and GPU/geospatial - deck.gl, luma.gl, MapLibre, WebGL, vector tiles and PMTiles.
  • Aviation software - safety-critical flight planning and dispatch, on the desktop.
  • Rust systems and cloud - Axum/Tokio services, type-safe Rust to TypeScript, serverless on AWS (Lambda, CDK), infrastructure-as-code.
  • Shipped, in the App Store - lux (DMX stage lighting) and vegify.app (plant-based nutrition tracking), both live since July 2026.

Featured work

AI / LLM

  • llm-extract-evals - schema-validated LLM data extraction with a confidence-gated evaluation harness: accuracy scoring and offline replay.
  • promptward - an LLM gateway that catches prompt injection and data exfiltration, validates structured output, and meters cost. The eval harness proves the detection rate.

Geospatial / GPU

  • stormdeck - live weather on a deck.gl map, vector tiles served from AWS Lambda on the free tier.
  • glslint - a GLSL checker and language server that understands deck.gl/luma.gl shader modules (Rust).

Rust / systems

  • typed-geojson - strongly-typed GeoJSON for Rust (Feature<G, P> / FeatureCollection), specta-compatible.
  • specta - Rust-to-TypeScript type export. 14 PRs merged toward 2.0-stable, including a remapper the maintainer's own test suite now depends on.
  • accept-payments - a payments and invoicing API in Rust/Axum on the AWS Lambda Rust runtime.

Stack

Rust, TypeScript, React, Tauri, Node, Python | deck.gl, luma.gl, MapLibre, WebGL, PMTiles | Axum, Tokio, PostgreSQL | AWS (Lambda, CDK), Terraform, GitHub Actions | LLM production: extraction, evaluation, structured output, injection defense

Reach me

johncarmack.com | linkedin.com/in/johncarmack1984

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  1. lux lux Public

    RGBAW DMX lighting controller — drives an Enttec Open DMX USB or sACN/Art-Net network node (auto-detected). Built with Rust, Tauri, and shadcn/ui. On the App Store for iOS and macOS.

    Rust 3

  2. glslint glslint Public

    GLSL checker + language server for the shaders web toolkits actually ship

    Rust

  3. specta-rs/specta specta-rs/specta Public

    Easily export your Rust types to other languages

    Rust 626 68

  4. maplibre/maplibre-gl-js maplibre/maplibre-gl-js Public

    MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in the browser

    TypeScript 11.4k 1.2k

  5. biomejs/biome biomejs/biome Public

    A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.

    Rust 25.6k 1.2k

  6. maplibre/martin maplibre/martin Public

    Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling.

    Rust 3.8k 382