I started building because I got frustrated by tools that almost worked.
A Coursera quiz that took four hours of video to answer. A forest monitoring dashboard that required five separate browser tabs. A chatbot
that couldn't tell you whether the user was happy or confused. Each frustration became a shipped product.
The thread connecting everything is the distance between a working model and a working product. Taking an LLM integration from "it generates text" to "it streams tokens through SSE, persists conversation state, switches providers without downtime, and scores sentiment in parallel" — that's where I spend my time.
I don't hand off. I build the model integration, the API layer, the streaming protocol, the React frontend, and the deployment pipeline. Not because I want to do everything, but because the seams between layers are where most products break. A backend engineer who doesn't understand streaming UX builds a system that feels laggy. A frontend developer who doesn't understand provider abstraction builds an interface that breaks when you switch from Gemini to OpenAI. I close those gaps.
The model is never the hardest part.
Getting GPT-5.5 to generate good text takes an afternoon. Getting that text to stream reliably through SSE, switch providers without dropping a session, and degrade gracefully when the API returns a 429 — that takes weeks. The engineering that matters lives in the infrastructure around the model.
Honest systems label their uncertainty.
My forest monitoring dashboard has a "no-mock mode" — a toggle that refuses to display any data that isn't verified live. When an API is down, the user sees an honest error, not a plausible lie. This principle extends to everything I build. I don't claim numbers I can't source.
Right now I'm deep in the infrastructure connecting AI to developer tools — semantic code search with local embeddings, MCP protocol servers, and retrieval systems that work without sending your code to a cloud API. I'm looking for teams that ship AI products to real users, where the work matters past the demo stage. I hold a B.E. in Computer Science.