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Work Experience

• Product Engineer (AI Focus), Misc Companies

  May, 2020 - Present

  Working at early-stage startups building generative AI products. Building full stack applications with Vercel AI SDK, designing LLM pipelines with structured outputs, implementing vector search and RAG systems, and creating AI agent tooling including MCP servers and Claude Code skills. Managing cloud infrastructure on GCP with Kubernetes for production workloads.

  • Vercel AI SDK / OpenAI / Anthropic

  • Structured outputs, embeddings, vector search

  • MCP servers and AI agent infrastructure

  • GCP / Kubernetes / Cloud Infrastructure

  • React / Next.js / TypeScript

  • Node.js / PostgreSQL / Supabase

• Senior Javascript Developer, Tokenized

  May, 2020 - May, 20211 year

  Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens. I built out the front end which was packaged as an electron app. It was a difficult frontend to build because we store the users keys locally and used them to sign transactions and contracts.

  • React

  • Redux

  • SCSS

  • Product

• Senior Javascript Developer, Blockbid

  Mar, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 10 months

  Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange. I started off on the frontend but eventually became lead tech and worked on every moving piece of the exchange. I really enjoyed working with liquidity providers and connecting their platforms to help us achieve liquid markets.

  • React, Apollo, Styled Components

  • Node.js / Rails

  • Docker / Heroku / GCP

  • Used Figma for design and UX work

  • Optimizing markets with tens of millions of rows using SQL.

• Developer, Listium

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

  Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)

  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

• Developer, Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

  Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

  • Developed new tools for contacting congress

  • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

  • Lots of social networking integration

• CTO, Earbits

  Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

  Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

  • Managed a small team of developers and designers

  • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

  • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

• Founder, JSON Resume

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

  • This resume is built with JSON Resume

  • Over 5000 stars on Github

  • Community developed themes

  • Tens of thousands of users

• Developer, Taskforce.is

  Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

  Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..

  • Generated 37,000,000 banner views

  • 100, 000 phone calls to congress

  • 500, 000 emails

  • 250, 000 signatures

• Co-Founder, Drone Hire

  Jan, 2013 - Present

  An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.

  • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.

• Founder, BackboneTutorials.com

  Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

  I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.

  • Over two million unique visitors a year

  • 25,000+ ebook downloads

  • 300,000+ Youtube views

• Front-end Developer, Ephox

  Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

  Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

Projects Experience

• JSON Resume

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  Community-driven open source standard for resumes in JSON format. Recently added AI-powered job matching using vector embeddings, GPT-powered job parsing, and a Claude Code skill for interactive job hunting.

  • 5000+ GitHub stars, tens of thousands of users

  • AI job matching with vector embeddings and semantic search

  • Built with Next.js, Supabase, Vercel AI SDK

  • Community developed themes ecosystem

• Cdnjs

  Jan, 2011 - Present

  Following Google's CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

  • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

  • Larger market share than Yahoo's, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks

  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

  • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

• Omega

  Jun, 2025 - Present

  Self-evolving AI Discord bot with 80+ specialized tools, multi-database architecture, and autonomous development capabilities. Built with Vercel AI SDK, Discord.js, and Next.js.

  • 80+ AI tools including code execution in 42+ languages

  • Self-evolution capability — analyzes behavior and proposes improvements via GitHub issues

  • Dual database architecture (PostgreSQL + MongoDB)

  • AI-powered decision making for natural conversation participation

• Alpha

  Sep, 2025 - Present

  From-scratch GPT training and inference system built in TypeScript with a hand-written C Vulkan addon for GPU compute. No PyTorch or TensorFlow — custom tensor backend, autograd, tokenizers, training loop, and inference engine.

  • Custom tensor backend with tape-based reverse-mode autodiff

  • Hand-written Vulkan GPU backend with TS-generated SPIR-V kernels

  • Full training pipeline: BPE tokenizers, checkpointing, eval, sampling

  • OpenAI-compatible chat API, CLI, web dashboard, and TUI

• TPMJS

  Jun, 2025 - Present

  The Tool Package Manager for AI Agents. An open-source registry and execution platform that automatically discovers, validates, and runs npm packages as AI agent tools via MCP, SDK, or CLI.

  • Auto-discovers npm packages with tpmjs keyword

  • Sandboxed tool execution via Deno runtime

  • MCP aggregator for connecting tool collections to Claude, Cursor, etc.

  • Agent platform for building, sharing, and forking AI agents

• Blocks

  Nov, 2025 - Present

  AI coding validator with semantic guardrails. A development-time validator that lets AI agents write code freely while maintaining consistency through domain semantics and multi-layer validation.

  • Domain specification via blocks.yml for entities, signals, measures, and rules

  • Multi-layer validation: Schema, Shape, and AI-powered Domain checks

  • Semantic feedback loop for AI coding tools

  • Drift detection between code and specification

• MobTranslate

  Dec, 2024 - Feb, 20252 months

  Open-source Indigenous language dictionary platform supporting advanced search, real-time AI translation, and server-side rendering. Built with Next.js and Turborepo.

  • Implemented multilingual dictionary with advanced search and pagination.

  • Added real-time translation API using AI techniques.

  • Optimized performance with server-side rendering (Next.js).

  • Structured codebase as a monorepo using Turborepo.

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