Industrial Design · Systems Engineering

Marcus
VanGorden

Industrial designer turned systems engineer. I design and build things that work — from medical devices to AI infrastructure.

BFA Industrial Design, SCAD Philadelphia, PA Patent Pending

Selected Work

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Telio

Systems Engineer & Lead Product Designer

2025–Present

AI on hardware you own. Designed the product concept, architecture, and deployment model for on-premise AI serving. Built the technical infrastructure: multi-node GPU cluster, vLLM, agent system, and full-stack product. Product is live at telio.co.

Product DesignAI InfrastructureSystem ArchitecturevLLM
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Ocumist

Product Designer & Co-Inventor

2021–Present

Patent-pending ocular medication delivery device. Replaces eye drops with a metered fine-mist aerosol, eliminating tip-to-eye contact and reducing dosing waste. Patent US20220233350A1 pending prosecution. Designed and rendered all product visuals.

Medical DeviceIndustrial DesignPatent3D Rendering
AI

AI Inference Infrastructure

Architect

2024–Present

Designed and built a multi-node GPU inference cluster: WRX90 worker (Threadripper 9955WX, 2× RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell), dual DGX Spark and GX10 nodes (ARM64, Blackwell), QSFP fabric networking at 40/100 Gb/s with MTU 9000 daisy-chain topology. Stack: vLLM, Docker, systemd, Cloudflare tunnels, Tailscale, NFS. Serves production LLM inference including DeepSeek V4 Flash and Nemotron models.

GPU ClustervLLMInfrastructureNetworking
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Multi-Agent AI Ecosystem

Systems Architect

2025–Present

Designed and built a 10+ agent production AI system (OpenClaw platform) handling business operations, scheduling, OSINT, coding, visual art, social media, process auditing, and job search automation. Infrastructure includes Cloudflare tunnels, Tailscale networking, Gmail/Calendar APIs, and SMS integration. Used daily for real business operations.

Smith

Primary orchestrator

Dolly

Phone & scheduling

Forge

Code & systems

Sleuth

OSINT & research

Renee

Visual artist

Rex

Social media

Coach

Operations

Sage

Process & audit

Clone

Self-model

Hunter

Job search

Agent SystemsAutomationCloudflareAPI Design
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Aetho

Production Consultant

2015–2016

Early-stage hardware startup developing consumer video stabilization technology. First person in the company to identify critical production issues and flag that the team would not meet manufacturing goals. San Francisco.

Hardware StartupProduct Development
HK

Holistic K9 Solutions

Founder & Owner

2019–Present

Built a dog training business from zero to a multi-trainer operation serving hundreds of clients. 3× "Best of Delco" award winner. IACP member. Developed business automation software that handles 90% of daily operations and staff communication using custom integrations made to connect existing tools. Manages staff, scheduling, client relations, and full business operations across two phone lines and a team of four trainers.

Business OpsCustom SoftwareTeam ManagementClient Relations

Building things
that work.

Industrial designer turned systems engineer. I design and build things that work — medical devices, AI infrastructure, production web services, and multi-agent systems. I'm equally comfortable sketching a product concept, routing a QSFP fabric, or debugging a vLLM inference pipeline.

My approach comes from industrial design: understand the user, understand the constraints, then build something that solves the real problem. That mindset applies whether I'm designing a medical device or architecting a GPU cluster.

BFA, Industrial Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

Get in touch

Looking for someone who can bridge industrial design and production engineering? I'm open to roles in AI training, product design, and systems engineering.