Professional Story
Product Engineer (AI Focus)
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 2021
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.
Senior Javascript Developer
Blockbid
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
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 2018
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 2016
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 2015
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
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 2016
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
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 2014
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
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.
Featured Campaigns & Projects
JSON Resume
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.