About

I’m JR Tipton.

The diagram below is mostly accurate: the important parts of my life are the people in it. In between, I’ve been building infrastructure and helping teams. I’m a wine nerd with a modest, eccentric collection of oddball bottles. I am learning to draw and learning to write. I live in Washington with my family.

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Some recent projects

claude operator — A research project on LLMs managing infrastructure services

cellardoor — A world vineyard map & CellarTracker companion

Expo — A slow social experiment