Curious tinkerer passionate about FOSS, privacy, and simple, elegant systems. Builds cool things with code and text.
Senior Prompt Engineer, Prompt Labs Inc.
Jan, 2024 - Present
Leading the design of powerful and efficient prompts for AI models in creative, technical, and strategic contexts.
Built a modular prompt framework used across multiple internal tools.
Championed FOSS practices within AI prompt pipelines.
Prompt Engineer, Prompt Labs Inc.
Jun, 2021 - Dec, 20232 years 7 months
Crafted prompts to improve LLM output in coding, summarization, and reasoning tasks.
Developed a prompt tuning system for knowledge retrieval tasks.
Collaborated with product teams to design user-facing prompt interfaces.
Junior Containment Analyst, Federal Bureau of Control (FBC)
Jan, 2020 - May, 20211 year 4 months
Assisted in the stabilization and classification of newly discovered Altered Items, with a focus on linguistic anomalies and cognitohazardous materials.
Developed internal tooling for tracking semantic drift in shifting object documentation.
Deployed emergency prompts to contain a memetic outbreak in Sector ███, preventing Class 3 escalation.
- Present
A Neovim colorscheme inspired by the soft tones of Giorgio Morandi’s paintings.
LLMs
Few-shot learning
Zero-shot prompting
Chain of Thought
Arch Linux
Shell scripting
Automation
Technical Writing
Markdown
Minimalist Blogging
Reality Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Miskatonic University
Sep, 2017 - Jun, 2021
Applied Cognition Loops
Recursive System Design
Ancient Markup & Esoteric Languages
Director’s Ribbon of Extraordinary Action , Federal Bureau of Control
Awarded on: Aug 13, 2020
Awarded for exceptional performance and improvisational prompt engineering during the 'Cascade Loop Incident,' which caused recursive documentation and localized timestream corruption in the Containment Wing.
Technical Archivist, Dyer Foundation for Polar Memory
Oct, 2022 - Mar, 2023
Digitized and preserved lost expedition logs from the 1930-31 Antarctic research missions, using shell scripts and OCR tooling to restore fragmented documentation.
Recovered over 5,000 lines of corrupted expedition metadata from decaying media.
Built a searchable terminal-based index system for cryptic glyphs and ancient cartographic scans.
Cryptic Interfaces: UX Patterns in the Prehuman Archives , Kadath Computing Quarterly
Published on: Oct 13, 2023
A short speculative paper analyzing the interaction patterns of the Elder Things' stone tablet systems, drawing parallels with modal text editors and UNIX.
Free and Open Source Software
Digital Minimalism
Sigmund is a brilliant engineer whose grasp of the ineffable intricacies of symbolic systems surpasses even the academics of Miskatonic. I trust them implicitly with both cognition loops and eldritch interfaces.