the engineer behind Ziggy

Chris Gorzelic

⚛️ Nuclear-trained Navy engineer 🛳️ USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 🔧 Mechanical engineer · U.S. VA 📈 Algorithmic trader 🤖 AI-agent builder

I built my career where precision isn't optional — trained in the U.S. Navy's nuclear program and working as a mechanical engineer deep in the engineering spaces of the USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Today I engineer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, trade the markets algorithmically, and build always-on AI agents that run real life. Ziggy is where all three meet.

What I bring

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Hard engineering

Nuclear-trained in the U.S. Navy; mechanical engineer aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). Now a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs. I build systems for environments where failure isn't an option.

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Markets & quant

A hands-on, multi-horizon trader — live intraday reads through long-term positions — with a risk-forward style and a quant's respect for position sizing, drawdown, and concentration. I build the tooling I trade on.

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AI systems

I design always-on, local-first AI agents that run on my own hardware. Ziggy is a private life + trading command center; WorldLens renders Earth's live signals in 3D. Private by design, owned end to end.

The path

U.S. Navy — nuclear engineering training. Learned to operate and maintain systems where the margin for error is zero.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65). Mechanical engineer in the engineering spaces of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — the real bowels of the ship.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Mechanical engineer — engineering in service of those who served.
The markets. Self-directed algorithmic trading across day-trades and long-term holds; a system-builder's approach to signal, risk, and execution.
Building Ziggy. Turning a Mac Studio into an always-on AI command center for markets and life — local-first, private, and genuinely useful.

Selected work

Building in public from Tampa, FL. Ziggy's trading tools run paper-first with a hard risk envelope — nothing here is investment advice.