Strategy, systems, and the work between.

What I do

• AI strategy, governance, and rollout. Where it fits, where it doesn't, what to write down before anyone touches a prompt. Built for institutions where compliance, IP, and "who actually reviews this output" all matter.
• Research and academic IT advising. A decade running infrastructure for researchers, instructors, and graduate students. HPC, GPU fleets, ingest pipelines, the politics of shared resources, the policy that shapes them.
• Homelab-grade infrastructure for small teams. Docker, Kubernetes, self-hosted stacks, observability. The kind of setup where the lights stay on and you own the keys.
• Translation between research and engineering. Materials Science background, twenty-plus years across both rooms. I can speak to a PI and a sysadmin in the same hour without losing either.

Who's behind it

Andrew Marx — Director of Academic and Research Technology at Drexel by day, working under the Honey Badger Digital banner outside that. Self-taught coder since DOS, professional since the late nineties, in higher-ed IT leadership for the last decade. Materials Science degree. Familiar with both the sharp end of a research deadline and the long tail of institutional risk.

What that means in practice: I've been in the rooms where AI policy gets argued, where compute budgets get cut, and where the storage just failed and the recital is in an hour. The advice you get is shaped by all three.

How I work

• Small engagements, written down. A scope doc, a deliverable, a date.
• No proposal theater. If we can't describe the work in two paragraphs, the work isn't ready yet.
• Plain language. I will not "leverage synergies" at you.
• Receipts over flex. You get the runbooks, the diagrams, and the keys.

Get in touch

Email: consulting@honeybadgerdigital.llc

For a longer look at how I think, see the colophon.