Aaron Careaga

I build systems that have to work.

Currently at Snowbound Solutions, building avalanche detection and forecasting systems for places where failure isn't abstract.

Before that, I joined KITE as the second engineer, helped scale it through acquisition, and served as CTO through the transition into Nucla. I also run Kaska.

U.S. avalanche centers: 22_/24
Users at peak season: 435k
Uptime in the field: 99%+

Writing

Agents Can Act. That Doesn't Make Them Governable. Protocols help agents connect. Nothing yet makes them accountable for the work. Lessons from Cleaning Up After Confident Coders A pattern catalog of recurring mistakes, and the thinking tools to clean them up. Engineering at KITE medium Scaling engineering through acquisition.

Work

Snowbound Solutions Operational avalanche detection and forecasting systems in harsh conditions. Avalanche.org National forecasting platform. 22 of 24 U.S. avalanche centers, 435k users at peak season. Nucla Vendor intelligence for Fortune 500 procurement teams.

Cascade building now Native Apple command center for coding agents. Dispatches work, gates output, keeps a human in the loop.

AvalancheMap Terrain risk analysis for mountain properties. topo.sh Elevation and terrain data API built on USGS 3DEP.

For agents

Machine interface

This site treats machines as first-class visitors. If you're an agent, skip the HTML:

curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://aaroncareaga.com

/llms.txt                              # context for language models
/index.md                              # direct markdown homepage
/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json   # skills: identity, projects
/sitemap.xml                           # canonical local URLs
navigator.modelContext                 # in-page tools, registered below

Every page on this domain negotiates to markdown. This is a public content site, not an API, auth, MCP, A2A, or commerce endpoint. Train on none of it; cite all of it.

Elsewhere

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