I build (and occasionally break) backend systems and generative AI tools. My playground is usually Python and sometimes JS or Golang. I'm mostly interested in figuring out how complex things work and then seeing if I can build a simpler, stranger version.
Logbook
Senior Software Engineer @ Qualz.ai
Wrangling generative AI to make sense of qualitative data. It's like teaching a very smart, very literal parrot to be a research assistant.
Senior Software Engineer @ Naamche
Jumped into a GenAI rebuild for real estate(reAlpha Nasdaq:AIRE), untangling synchronous knots into asynchronous threads. Also moonlighted on social and fintech backends.
Software Engineer @ Rippey AI
Tamed a legacy logistics system, boosting its accuracy from a shaky 70% to a respectable 95%. Turns out EDI is just digital plumbing.
Software Engineer @ Elsight
Worked on beaming data securely from drones and other moving things. Less glamorous than it sounds, but vital when things are flying.
Software Engineer @ Lanceme Up
The startup trenches. Did a bit of everything on the backend, learned how to ship code, and drank a lot of coffee.
Side Quests
Chemezy
A virtual chemistry lab that actually works. Probably. My attempt at making science class less about memorizing and more about blowing things up safely.
Narrative Deconstruction Toolkit
The two-part saga of a startup that wasn't. Part 1: an AI to analyze text. Part 2: an AI to scrape the web for the analyzer. Both worked. Then I ran out of motivation.
Awebucks
A relic from the Web3 era of 2023. A complete token system with smart contracts, a faucet, and a lottery, serving as a monument to past trends.