Software engineer who directs complex technical projects with AI coding assistants. Currently building a neurosymbolic language model in OCaml using Claude Code as implementation partner. 5+ years of distributed systems in Node.js and TypeScript. Built the original JSON Resume CLI tool (4.2K GitHub stars).
Building Vidya, a neurosymbolic language model in OCaml — a transformer with a Forth interpreter that constrains generation at the logit level. Using Claude Code as primary implementation partner across 10+ source files. Directed architecture, evaluated output, identified performance bottlenecks, and published technical blog documenting the process.
Built the TypeScript client SDK and public data API for a decentralized exchange. Complex aggregate SQL queries, Ethereum and Cosmos JavaScript APIs, AWS Lambda deployment.
Maintained and built out the API gateway for an Australian cryptocurrency exchange. Built the initial market-starting arbitrage bot. TypeScript, GraphQL, TypeORM, Redis, JWT and TOTP multi-factor authentication.
Built a zero-knowledge query service for a consortium blockchain — the first company to use Hyperledger in production. Homomorphic encryption, private blockchain for immutable audit logs. 15+ Docker containers orchestrated with Docker Compose. Wrote all Golang chaincode. Deployed to IBM infrastructure.
Built the server for laplateforme.com, France's largest building construction hardware retailer. Mentored PHP developers on modern JavaScript. Node.js, Express.js, Mocha.js, MySQL.
Built the main REST API for beacon location tracking on Android devices. Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose.
Geo-monitoring applications using Node.js. Built modules for meteorological and geological data processing. Maintained 500+ end-to-end and unit tests.
Built the original resume-cli tool and registry server for this open-source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for resumes. 4.2K GitHub stars.
9.6M parameter neurosymbolic language model in OCaml. GPT-2 transformer with Forth-based symbolic constraints, BPE tokenizer, BLAS-accelerated matrix ops, and TD-learned concept associations. Built with Claude Code as implementation partner.
Live-coding audio synthesis environment in JavaScript.
Open-source resume standard. Built the original CLI tool and registry server.
I've known Roland for many years, and had the privilege of working closely with him at Blockbid, an Australian crypto currency exchange. Together we built out an API gateway which fronted a distributed system with Kubenetes on AWS. We used Open API v3 to define a schema for our public facing API, we built a custom schema validator which filtered out unexpected requests and responses improving security and consistency. We used JWT's to authenticate users on different microservices by passing them around with associated jobs in RabbitMQ. On top of this we managed to also support GraphQL and namely our own Apollo client frontend. He is excellent at Javascript/Typescript, writes readable, terse, documented and modular code.— Thomas Davis