AI engineering
LLM applications, agentic workflows and retrieval systems that connect models to useful work.
BRIAN MINGUS · INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
AI, software
& security.
One independent practice.
Built around the work.
I’m Brian Mingus. Cognatory is my home for hands-on engineering, consulting and research.
COGNATORYIDEAS INTO SYSTEMS
THE PRACTICE
From a hard problem
to a working system.
Software & data
Cloud architecture, data platforms and performance engineering, from design through delivery.
Security research
Authorized assessments, vulnerability research and clear reports that help maintainers ship fixes.
SELECTED WORK
Engineering, with evidence.
SECURITY · AUGUST 2026
A report. A patch. A shipped fix.
I reported and fixed CVE-2026-73282, a use-after-free vulnerability in OpenSSH’s client multiplexing code. OpenSSH credited Brian Mingus of Cognatory in release 10.5.
Read the maintainer’s release notes ↗
RESEARCH · MACHINE LEARNING
Learning beyond the hyperplane.
Research into hypersphere support vector machines and GPU-accelerated learning. An exploration of model geometry, implementation and performance.
Explore the research ↗THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRACTICE
Builder. Researcher.
Technical leader.
I bring experience across AI, cloud platforms, data engineering and computational neuroscience. I’ve led engineers, delivered production systems and coauthored research on neural modeling, vision and learning.
Cognatory is my independent practice: a place for focused consulting, security work and ideas worth investigating.
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