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Michael Ashley

Technical Program Director & Founder, Imogen Labs

Senior Product / Program / Technical PM · 7 years Scrum · Building agentic software

linkedin   mjashley · Open to AI roles

Looking for my next product, program, or project management role in AI software development. Senior IC through Director. Full-time, remote or hybrid, open to relocation for the right team.

📍 Duluth, GA · 🌐 mjashley.com · 🏗️ imogenlabs.ai · 💾 eight.ly · 🏠 homelabarr.com

About

I run a one-person software company that ships real products with an AI engineering partner. Every product, from a NAS operating system to an iOS wellness app, is designed, developed, and operated with AI in the loop as the actual workflow, not a demo. 14 products shipped, zero investors, self-hosted on my own Proxmox cluster with 99.9% 30-day uptime.

Twelve-plus years in technical program and product management before that. Previously Software PM at Neptune Technology Group (12 Scrum teams, .NET MAUI platform), Senior TPM at Healthcare Integrations (SaaS portfolio), and TPM at G5 TEK.

Certifications

PSM·CSPO·SA

PSM ICSPOSAFe 6 Agilist

All Credentials

Active products:

  • Eight.ly OS: homelab operating system featuring NAS + Virtualization + Container management.
  • Eight.ly Backup Server: Standalone backup server for Eight.ly OS with dedup + encryption
  • NeuroHelper: daily wellness companion for iOS
  • HomelabARR CE: free homelab dashboard, 137+ one-click apps (3,400+ templates available in the full Eight.ly catalog)
  • cf-companion: auto-create Cloudflare DNS records for Traefik containers
  • IPAC: Integrated Personality as Code
  • Operator Kit: OpenClaw plugin that scaffolds a complete AI operator (identity, memory, instincts, cron, agents) in one install · npm

Currently building

  • Eight.ly OS Professional: R730XD storage testing with SnapRAID + MergerFS, CI pipeline green, Docker image on GHCR
  • NeuroHelper: live on the App Store, shipping ongoing updates (App Store →)
  • OpenClaw Managed Hosting: automated Stripe → Hetzner LXC provisioning, Traefik routing, AgentMail onboarding ($29-89/mo)
  • MediaClaw: managed Plex + arr-stack hosting on Hetzner bare metal ($19-129/mo)
  • Operator Kit: @imogenlabs/operator-kit on npm, shipping new templates

How I work

  • Real SDLC. Jira boards with story points and sprint planning · Confluence ADRs, runbooks, and architecture docs · 384 tracked issues across active projects
  • AI-augmented development. 13-agent auto-router in production since Aug 2025 · OpenClaw operator (Imogen) running 24/7 with cron-driven briefings and monitoring · published @imogenlabs/operator-kit to npm
  • Own infrastructure. Proxmox cluster (VMs + LXC) · multi-node Docker hosts · R730XD with SnapRAID + MergerFS · Traefik v3 reverse proxy · Cloudflare zero-trust tunnels · Mac Mini M4 for CI/CD
  • CI/CD & security. GitHub Actions, multi-arch Docker builds on GHCR, semver releases · automated scanning with CodeQL, Snyk, Dependabot, and Docker Scout

By the numbers

Contributions

Contribution graph

Followers Public repos On GitHub since Profile views Total stars npm version npm downloads Hugging Face HF Model Downloads Docker Hub HomelabARR Backend Pulls HomelabARR Frontend Pulls GHCR

14 products shipped · 34+ services in production · 99.9% 30-day uptime · 0 investors

Stack

TypeScript · Go · SwiftUI · React · Next.js · Astro · Python · Docker · Proxmox · SnapRAID · GitHub Actions · Jira · OpenClaw · Claude API

Writing

Building in public. 54+ posts on real engineering problems, agentic dev workflows, and shipping software with an AI partner.

Read the blog →

Recent posts:

Find me

mjashley.com · eight.ly · imogenlabs.ai · LinkedIn · Discord · @Imogen_Labs · michael@mjashley.com

Building in public. Come hang out in Discord or follow along on X.

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  1. operator-kit operator-kit Public

    OpenClaw plugin — scaffold a complete AI operator (identity, memory, instincts, cron, agents) in one install

    TypeScript 9 3

  2. cf-companion cf-companion Public

    Auto-create Cloudflare DNS records for containers with Traefik labels. By Imogen Labs.

    Python 1

  3. homelabarr-ce homelabarr-ce Public

    Your homelab, one dashboard. 100+ self-hosted apps, one click each. Free and open source.

    TypeScript 2

  4. ipac ipac Public

    IPAC: Integrated Personality as Code — a methodology for encoding human knowledge, personality, and decision-making into version-controlled files that AI agents can load and execute.