Hey, I'm Volodymyr 👋

23+ years building software — from COBOL and Smalltalk to Rust, Agentic Memory, and Sovereign AI

I work on agentic memory architectures, world models for AI agents, and secure/sovereign agents — all grounded in embedded graph databases and edge-first, privacy-first principles.

My tools: LadybugDB (embedded columnar graph database), Semantic Spacetime ontologies, Promise Graphs, and Hybrid Graph RAG. I believe AI agents should own their memory, run on the device, and never depend on a cloud service to think.

---

🧠 Current Focus

• Agentic Memory — Multi-layered memory architectures (episodic, semantic, procedural) built on knowledge graphs. Cognitive extraction-consolidation pipelines. Memory that supports causal reasoning, not just retrieval
• World Models for AI Agents — Structured representations of the environment an agent reasons about to make decisions
• Secure & Sovereign Agents — Self-sovereign identity (DIDs, KERI, Verifiable Credentials), agent-owned credentials, trust without centralized authority
• Edge AI & Embedded Graphs — Local-first, privacy-first. Graph databases that ship as a single file and run in-process. No server, no network hop, no data leaving the device

🐞 Projects

• Hybrid Graph RAG (Rust) — Four retrieval modes in one query: vector search + graph traversal + PageRank + community detection. +109% on multi-hop questions vs vector-only RAG
• Hybrid Graph RAG (Python) — Reference implementation of Hybrid GraphRAG with LadybugDB

📚 Books

I write the Age AI book series on Leanpub:

🌍 World Models for AI Agents	🐞 LadybugDB for Edge Agent AI Memory
🦆 GraphDuck: DuckDB for Embedded AI Agents and Graphs	🔗 Beyond Context Graphs: Agentic Memory, Cognitive Processes, and Promise Graphs
⏳ Semantic Space Time for AI Agent Ready Graphs	🕰️ Temporal Aware AI Memory
📱 Edge AI: Pocket Knowledge Graphs on User Device	🧠 AI Agents Memory Empowered by Knowledge Graphs
🔐 Sovereign AI Agents (in progress)	🧮 Dependent Types & Logic for AI Agent Ready Knowledge Graphs
🗡️ Cypher 103 with LadybugDB	🔮 Metagraph for AI Agents
💾 TypeDB for Edge AI Agents	🤔 Philosophical Wednesdays with AI Powered Architect

🇺🇦 I also write a Ukrainian children's book series: Макс, Цугі і світло, яке чутно

🛠️ Tech Stack

Primary: Rust, TypeScript, React, JavaScript
JVM: Kotlin, Scala, Java, Clojure
Systems & Crypto: Rust, Zig, C
Formative: Smalltalk (Pharo, Cuis, Self), COBOL — these shaped how I think about objects, agents, and message-passing

📝 Writing & Content

• Substack — Sovereign Agentic AI — deep dives on agentic memory, world models, LadybugDB, Hybrid RAG
• Medium — technical articles
• YouTube — video content

🌐 Find Me

Nostr: npub1u6qhg5ucu3xza4nlz94q90y720tr6l09avnq8y3yfp5qrv9v8sus3tnd7t

---

The next generation of AI will not simply compute. It will remember.