Matthew Salinas
USAF Cyber IT veteran and founder of Hungry Nova Labs. I build secure systems, local-first AI, and production edge infrastructure — owned hardware, clear outcomes, no mystery stack.
Overview
Selected work
Community cybersecurity education site for Augusta, GA — live in production.
Plain-language threat guidance, free tools, and workshops. Next.js static export with a Cloudflare Worker for contact email delivery.
Fine-tuned and published custom model — Ollama + Hugging Face.
Hungry Nova Labs model you can pull and run on owned hardware. Demonstrates end-to-end fine-tune → publish → distribute.
Free 4K QR generator — nothing uploaded, works offline.
Text, links, or download URLs become crisp printable QR codes with a loot-box reveal. Hosted on Cloudflare Workers.
Private OpenAI-compatible AI gateway for an organization — metered keys, owned hardware.
LiteLLM + Postgres virtual keys, Cloudflare Tunnel, host Ollama. Teams call it like OpenAI without sending data to a third-party cloud.
Ransomware tripwire CLI — early detection via decoy files and cages.
Plant canaries, optional soft cages, strategy-map TUI. Detects encryption activity early; does not replace backups.
Plain-English network scans with local LLM analysis — data never leaves the machine.
Generates and runs nmap from natural language, streams results, then produces risk-ranked security analysis via Ollama.
Scheduled internet-exposure monitoring with leadership-ready reports.
Six local Ollama agents query Shodan, debate findings, and write formal + informal reports with alerts on significant exposure changes.
Local-first word processor with on-device AI — documents never leave the machine.
Corporate and Personal workspaces, selection-first rewrite/summarize, Story Memory, Pandoc import/export, localhost-only AI allowlist.
Multi-agent software factory that turns ideas into planned, QA’d builds on local models.
Executive intake → Orchestrator → Foremen/Workers → QA → scoring. Artifacts and goldprints stored in SQLite for the next run.
Internal operations surface for lab services — reachable without exposing raw hosts.
Edge-proxied through Cloudflare so ops tooling stays available while origins stay private.
Private coding agent behind mTLS — unauthorized browsers get a hard 404.
Mac Studio agent with LM Studio, CLI failover to local Ollama, Cloudflare Tunnel + cert/token edge guard.
Security-focused browser project with intentional privacy defaults.
Aimed at reducing everyday browsing attack surface rather than bolting privacy on after the fact.
iOS food scanner with offline-friendly grading and paid subscription backend.
Nutrition/additive signals, caching, optional cloud explanations. Cloudflare Worker handles subscriptions and Apple server APIs.
Ephemeral private search — session container destroyed when you close the tab.
Isolated SearXNG per user session. No retained history, no tracking.
Local multi-agent research lab that turns ideas into structured reports.
Keeps proprietary context on-device instead of shipping it to a third-party cloud.
Council of specialized AI agents that debate a question and return a verdict.
Configurable council sizes, TUI and web UI, LAN discovery for Ollama/LM Studio.
Desktop novel workshop from premise to EPUB with local AI continuity.
Timeline beats, sample chapter, full generation with Story Bible, driven by LM Studio.
Handheld terminals that talk to private Ollama over the home network.
Pocket keyboard firmware for local models without carrying a laptop.
Consent-based camera/mic assistant with long-term memory (R&D).
Observes environment, stores embeddings, and builds context to ask better questions.
Lightweight custom OS foundation for lab VMs and teaching.
Bootloader plus modular kernel pieces for memory, process, and I/O with a cross-compilation toolchain.
Skills
About
I’m Matthew Salinas — Staff Sergeant (USAF Cyber IT Specialist, 2018–2025), founder of Hungry Nova Labs LLC, based in Augusta, Georgia. I’ve administered enterprise systems across NSA sites, supported aircrews in real time, and led training across branches and cultures.
Today I build private AI appliances, security education for the community, and tools that prefer your hardware over someone else’s cloud — including fine-tuning and publishing nova-pup on Ollama and Hugging Face. This site runs from my own Proxmox lab — same philosophy as the work it describes.
Hungry Nova Labs LLC
hungrynovalabs.com
FAQ
A USAF Cyber IT veteran (Staff Sergeant, 2018–2025) and founder of Hungry Nova Labs LLC in Augusta, Georgia. He builds cybersecurity systems, private AI, and self-hosted infrastructure.
Cybersecurity, systems/network administration, private AI infrastructure, consulting, and Hungry Nova Labs collaborations. Remote and hybrid conversations welcome.
A fine-tuned model published by Hungry Nova Labs on Ollama and Hugging Face for local inference on owned hardware.
Augusta Cybersecurity, AnythingQR, and this site at msalinas.us.
Email [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn.
Contact
Best reach: email. Happy to talk cybersecurity roles, private AI infrastructure, or collaboration.