CV

Independent work · 2025—

Building and selective advisory work since Emblem.

The Apocrypha

theapocrypha.xyz

Long-form, low-cadence publication on capital, machines, and the evolution of human systems. Written for those who want something slow, honest, and reflective — against a consensus that rewards certainty and controversy.

Hermaeus

hermaeus.xyz

Financial data infrastructure for analysts, developers, and AI agents. Ingests SEC filings and other authoritative sources, resolves entities into a single source-linked graph. Indexes the independent media frontier (podcasts, Substacks, RSS) with ASR, diarization, and passage-level semantic search.

AI workspace exploring high-bandwidth human–AI interaction; shipped as an open-source TypeScript framework for agent orchestration (agents, threads, toolkits, three-layer memory), CLI scaffolding, and a React component library for realtime voice.

Experience

Cofounder & CTO — Emblem PE(2023—2024)

emblem.pe

Built an AI investment platform for PE, VC, and family offices: deal sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows. Designed and shipped the full product end-to-end, including research interfaces, portfolio dashboards, deal pipeline, document-ingestion ETL, semantic search, agent orchestration, and multi-tenant infrastructure.

Software Engineer — ProPics(2022—2023)

propics.ai

AI-generated professional headshots. Orchestrated long-running Dreambooth fine-tuning with TensorFlow + Argo Workflows; shipped the upload → review → selection mobile UX.

Side projects

  • kdbA CLI for knowledge and work

  • opendocAgent-friendly document format

  • parrotUltra-minimalist macOS dictation

  • rêverieAI-native creative suite concept

Stack

TypeScript, Rust, Python, Go · Next.js, React, Tauri · Postgres, turbopuffer, Dagster, Kubernetes, Temporal · Figma