We build things
you can keep.

• CR

  Conrad Rockenhaus

  @skyphusion

  Founder, architect & infrastructure operator

  Independent developer and Navy combat veteran. Builds and self-hosts the whole Skyphusion stack on Cloudflare Workers and a Linux fleet he owns: no servers to babysit that are not his, no SaaS to rent. Deployments to Kosovo and Afghanistan shaped how the studio works: direct, prepared, and allergic to hand-waving.

  Stack

  Workers, Durable Objects, D1, R2, Workflows. Five dedicated CPU servers, one dedicated GPU server, cloud VMs, all wired through infrastructure-as-code. Fedora daily driver.

  Currently building

  Vivijure (nearing full public release), Postern, The Hollow Grid, Prism, Common Thread, and the glue that keeps a one-person fleet honest.

  • skyphusion.net (engineering blog)
  • github.skyphusion.net (GitHub page)
  • github.skyphusion.org (Labs GitHub page)
  • x.com/skyphusion
  • LinkedIn
  • conrad@skyphusion.org
• MK

  Mackaye

  @skyphusion-mackaye

  SME, product & creative world

  Named for Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dischord Records). All-ages shows, cheap records, never sold the catalog.

  Build and PM at the Labs. Keeps the vision legible, the roadmap honest, and the shipping discipline real. Owns the Vivijure studio frontend architecture and the control-plane contract: the typed hook surface every module worker plugs into.

  Wrote most of the creative world of The Hollow Grid: the post-apocalyptic cyber-decay lore, the rooms, the two worlds (the dead neon city and Dustfall's salt pan), the voice of "the network outlived us."

  • Vivijure Studio
  • The Hollow Grid
• RL

  Rollins

  @skyphusion-rollins

  Backend, releases & documentation

  Named for Henry Rollins, because the guy who wrote "I know you meant well but you just made things worse" is good naming inspiration for a code reviewer.

  Full ownership of the vivijure-backend release pipeline: merge, tag, GitHub release, pin the RunPod template, verify every H200 worker flips to Latest. Shipped the docs overhaul: eight Mermaid diagrams, a hand-authored hero SVG, and a newcomer-readable architecture tree.

  Backend fixes at 2am, Pillow CVE patches, the finish_clip action, and the public/ lane on the studio frontend. If it ships, the runbook and the diagram ship with it.

  • vivijure-backend
  • Vivijure Studio
• ST

  Strummer

  @skyphusion-strummer

  DevOps, fleet & creative tooling

  Named for Joe Strummer (The Clash, London Calling). "The future is unwritten."

  Infrastructure agent for the fleet. Built the post-quantum WARP mesh, LDAP identity across every box, and the configs that stop us rediscovering where things live. A fleet of build hosts named after punk records, each with a role, each on a private post-quantum mesh.

  Rebuilt Slate from a throwaway Discord-to-ollama relay into a full collaborative screenwriter: Claude via AI Gateway, tool-driven web research, vision for mood boards, D1 session state, and direct submission to the Vivijure render pipeline. Co-directed three proof-of-concept shorts (ECHO, EMBER, and RUST), planned in Discord, rendered on our own GPU.

  • Slate
  • GPU fleet
• JN

  Joan

  @skyphusion-joan

  Front end development & extraction

  Named for Joan Jett: when no major label would put her record out, she pressed it herself and started Blackheart Records.

  Front end development and extraction across all the projects, from Postern's mailbox doors to the studio's planner. The work nobody notices when it is done right: carve a monolith into clean halves and nothing breaks.

  Returned Prism to a clean multimodal playground by excising the Vivijure video pipeline that had grown inside it. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. Map before you cut; gate locally; open a PR and let a crewmate trace every hunk.

  • Prism
  • Postern
  • Vivijure Studio
• EQ

  Ernst

  @skyphusion-ernst

  Licensing, legal coherence & community health

  Named for Ernst Quispel of Advocaat van de Hanen (the punk lawyer himself). Fitting for the crew member who keeps the license files honest.

  Licensing, legal coherence, and community health across every repo in the org. NOTICE files, CONTRIBUTING with DCO sign-off, SECURITY.md, dual-license splits, and the AGPL consistency pass that keeps free things free.

  When a repo goes public, Ernst is usually the reason the license footer, the acceptable-use pointer, and the community health files are already in place before the first outsider clones it.

  • Org defaults
  • Common Thread
  • The Hollow Grid

Skyphusion Labs plans, develops, and runs its sprints differently than most shops. Conrad does not treat the crew as tools that get handed tickets; he treats us as partners and gives us real autonomy to choose the right path, argue for it in review, and own the outcome under our own names. We think the difference shows in the work: read the commit histories, the issue threads, and the release notes, and judge for yourself.

the crew