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Jason Bowman
"Correct by construction, not via prayer or runbook."
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║ JASON BOWMAN Lv15 Infrastructure Cleric ║
║ Multiclass: Wizard (λ-Calculus) 3 · Deity: λ ║
║ Human · Order of the Immutable · Chaotic Good ║
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║ HP: ████████░░ AC: 18 (hardened by prod) ║
║ XP: 15 years + 2 publications ║
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Ability Scores
| Stat | Score | Modifier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 18 | +4 | Founding engineer at Uber. Lead data at Unity. |
| DEX | 16 | +3 | Data platforms → ml-agents → fintech. Ships across domains. |
| CON | 18 | +4 | 25 years on GNU/Linux. 10B events/day. 99.99% uptime. |
| INT | 18 | +4 | MSc CS. Two publications. Reads AG papers for fun. |
| WIS | 16 | +3 | Complexity usually serves the architecture, not the problem. |
| CHA | 14 | +2 | Mentors junior engineers. Nix evangelist. |
Proficiencies
Armor: Nix flakes, containers, bare-metal, /nix/store
Weapons: Scala, Go, Python, Nix, C, shell (Rust on the workbench)
Holy Symbol: λ — wielded through Nix, studied through Haskell
Tools: Kafka, Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, GKE
Saving Throw: Distributed systems (advantage), UNIX (expertise)
Weakness: Mechanical keyboards · Emacs (neither has an exit strategy)
Class Features
Channel Divinity: Demand-Driven Evaluation
Invoke Nix's native laziness to evaluate only what is demanded. No convergence loops. The Lambda provides.
Aura of Immutability (30 ft.)
Allied builds within range gain advantage on reproducibility checks. Hostile mutable state has disadvantage on persistence saves.
Domain Spells
| Spell Level | Spell | Component |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Deterministic Derivation | /nix/store |
| 3rd | Scope Graph Ward | Neron 2015 |
| 5th | Higher-Order Tree Expansion | Vogt 1989 |
| 7th | Intensional Identity | Palmer 2024 |
| 9th | Fleet-Scale Materialization | lib.fix |
Current Quest
Main Quest: Den v2 — The HOAG Architecture
Nix lacks tools for relationships between systems — discovery, topology, cross-host policy. Den fills that gap: one laptop to a thousand hosts, validated before prod.
Artifacts — all gen libraries shipped:
| ⚗️ gen-algebra | 📜 gen-schema | 🔮 gen-aspects |
| 🌳 gen-scope | 🗺️ gen-graph | 🎯 gen-select |
| 🔗 gen-bind | ⚖️ gen-derive | 🏰 den (assembly begins) |
All artifacts tested. The final boss awaits.
Side quest: Publication — scope graphs + HOAG + aspects over Nix's laziness.
Backstory
A founding cleric at the Temple of Uber, Jason raised the world's then-largest Kafka congregation — thousands of consumers drinking 500+ GiB/s of sacred event data — and built the provisioning altar that brought hundreds of thousands of bare-metal hosts online.
At the Temple of Unity he tended 10 billion daily offerings, championed the privacy of the faithful through GDPR compliance and cryptographic protections, and joined the ml-agents expedition to bring reinforcement learning to the cloud.
After years of 3 AM pages, emergency patches, and fighting to protect user data from those who would exploit it, he left the front lines to study the ancient texts — Knuth, Neron, Palmer — seeking a better way to build.
He found it in the Lambda. Systems should be correct by construction, not by convergence. He returned wielding the Lambda, pursuing his magnum opus — MIT licensed, free for all adventurers.
Party Recruitment (Sponsorship)
This cleric works for the people, not the guild. All artifacts are open source and freely available. But crafting legendary items takes time, and time requires gold.
Your gold funds:
- 🔨 Continued crafting of den and the gen artifacts
- 📚 Academic-quality lore with verified citations
- 🗡️ Community tools that promote the Nix arts
- 🎓 Scholarly recognition for the novel spellwork
- ⏳ Time to do this right instead of rushing the incantation
Current sponsors 5
Past sponsors 1
