Shane Furtado.
Aptos · Santa Cruz County · California · CM96bx

Shane
Furtado.

Systems and networks by trade, radio and security by temperament — and lately AI, wherever it earns its keep. Central Coast of California.

APTOS · CA 36.977° N
Plate 01 Aptos, CA
Currently
Independent — a small LLC of my own, pointed at AI tooling.
Open to interesting work
02About

For three years I was the IT generalist at Zero Motorcycles. It covered a fair amount of ground — the Wi-Fi, the malware, and a company-wide move into the cloud, roughly in that order of glamour. Some of it I'd done before; the rest I figured out on the way. Before that, I cut my teeth at Anatometal.

Since then, a year and a half on my own — quieter, and mostly an excuse to see how far AI can go once you hand it real tools. Half of what I've built works better than it has any right to. Next is probably wherever systems, security, and AI overlap. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, still nearby in Aptos.

Off the clock

Evenings, the curiosity drifts toward radio — a spectrum analyzer, a slow lap around the house, a map of what's actually on the air. Open-source intelligence scratches the same itch; so does the home lab, which exists to be broken. It's all one hobby, really: finding signal.

Radio spectrum OSINT Home lab
03Field kit
In rotation
sys Windows & macOS fleets · Azure / Entra / Intune · Active Directory · imaging & patch cycles
net VLANs & firewalls · DHCP & DNS · Wi-Fi surveys · packet captures, recreationally
ops Linux servers · nginx & PM2 · certificates that renew themselves · backups that restore
sec malware triage · endpoint hardening · a home lab for the legal kind of curiosity
rf spectrum analyzers · 433 MHz to 5 GHz, plus the odd IR remote · grid CM96bx
dev TypeScript & Node · Python · shell scripts · ESP32 firmware · MCP connectors for AI
04Selected work
Four areas · swipe →
01 / 04 2021 – 2024 Zero Motorcycles

Wherever something broke, was new, or nobody else wanted to touch it

~400 people, several offices and countries. Tuned the Wi-Fi until it behaved, stood up fiber-over-air links between campus buildings, took malware apart to see what it wanted, and moved most of an on-prem estate into Azure — legacy pieces and all. Along for the full SAP rollout, and in the crew that brought machines back the morning CrowdStrike took everyone down.

Azure Networking Malware analysis SAP
Past role
02 / 04Ongoing

Networks, measured

Wi-Fi surveys with real instruments, channel plans that respect the neighbors, point-to-point links where trenching isn't an option — and measurements before opinions, always.

Wi-Fi RF surveys Point-to-point
Active
03 / 042024 →

Plumbing for AI

Connectors that give AI hands on real systems — MCP servers, command-line tools, and a small platform for running agents. No enterprise contract required.

MCP CLI TypeScript
Live
04 / 04always

The bench

Where the soldering iron lives. Recent output: a 1983 Apple CRT brought back as a live data ticker, an LED matrix fed off a WebSocket firehose, and firmware for whatever dev board wanders too close.

ESP32 Firmware One CRT
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05Get in touch

The inbox is open. Systems, signals, AI — or just to say hi.

Email shane@shanefurtado.com → LinkedIn /in/shane-furtado → GitHub @ShaneOnChain → Résumé On request →