Art Jacobson

Art Jacobson.

Twin Cities
Minnesota

Home automation, voice AI, and declarative infrastructure.

I’m a principal software architect at Savant and a member of its founding team. Twenty years of home automation platforms since then — embedded, mobile, and cloud.

Lately I work on voice assistants built on LLMs: agent orchestration, tool calling over MCP, and on-device speech in Rust.

Outside work I run a homelab on NixOS and Kubernetes — declarative infrastructure and GitOps, end to end.

Focus

Home automation platforms, embedded to cloud
LLM agents, MCP, and voice interfaces
Rust, Go, macOS, and GNUstep
Kubernetes, Flux GitOps, and self-hosted infrastructure