AI Systems Engineer

Andrew Metcalf

Building AI systems that create, protect, and explore memory.

Founder of Ajax Studio and VoiceGuard AI. Author of Last Ascension. Senior Engineer at Costco IT. Pre-doctoral researcher focused on AI memory systems.

Andrew Metcalf

Why It Connects

Creativity, security, and memory are not separate pursuits. They are three facets of the same fundamental challenge: how do we build AI systems that maintain coherent identity over time?

Ajax Studio explores this through creative persistence. A digital artist that remembers its style, its projects, its evolution. VoiceGuard addresses the threat side: what happens when synthetic voices can impersonate anyone, erasing the line between authentic and artificial? And the research underneath asks the core question: how can AI systems develop the kind of episodic and semantic memory that would make both the creativity and the security work better?

These are not disconnected projects. They are experiments in the same underlying space. Each one teaches something about identity, continuity, and what it means for a system to remember.

Ready to explore?

Whether you are interested in creative AI tools, AI security solutions, or research collaboration, I would be glad to connect.