> I build production AI systems — RAG pipelines, LLM integration, and semantic search that ship.
Solo engineer. I take AI products from schema to deployed, end to end: vector search over millions of chunks, multi-stage LLM pipelines, real-time infrastructure. Live products below — click them.
Highlights
Built and operated production platforms end to end as a sole engineer
Designed real-time collaborative infrastructure using Operational Transformation
Built semantic search and content-analysis pipelines with Rust, Qdrant, PostgreSQL, and embeddings
Shipped multi-tenant SaaS workflows with authentication, audit trails, secure file handling, billing, and automation
Created OpenOT, an open-source Operational Transformation framework for collaborative editors
Selected Work
Flagship · Live RAG Product
Spoiler-aware RAG for fiction canon · live at recall.novusatlas.org
A continuity-checking and canon research tool for fiction writers. Semantic search over millions of indexed text chunks with chapter-aware spoiler boundaries — queries only ever retrieve from canon the user has read.
Retrieval has to respect a per-user "read up to chapter N" cutoff — a query can never surface canon the reader hasn't reached yet.
Chunk-level provenance so retrieval respects the spoiler boundary; an embedding pipeline for long-form serialized fiction; credit-metered generation; full product built and deployed solo.
Real-Time Platform
Real-time collaborative writing platform · private beta
Collaborative fiction platform with an operational-transformation editor, custom Rust NLP engine, and vector-powered search. Built solo over two years.
Long-form collaborative fiction needs conflict-free concurrent editing, fast search across large manuscripts, and heavy NLP — all in one product.
OT convergence under concurrent editing; sub-100ms sync at hundreds of concurrent sessions; Rust services alongside a TypeScript product layer.
Open Source
Open-source operational transformation framework · GitHub
The OT engine extracted from NOVA, open-sourced. Framework-agnostic, with state-machine transforms, pluggable transports, storage adapters, and React/Lexical integration paths.
Commercial SaaS
Client onboarding platform for agencies
Multi-tenant client-onboarding SaaS — schema-driven intake, passwordless portals, secure credential exchange, and AI-assisted asset checks. Evidence of shipping breadth.
Services
Typical engagements: fixed-scope builds ($1.5k–8k) or ongoing hourly. I work async-friendly, overlapping US/EU mornings.
UI / UX
Production-grade systems designed across NOVA, Kicklayer, and experimental tools. Each layout balances hierarchy, typography, and atmosphere to communicate product intent clearly.
Expertise
About
I'm a solo engineer. I build entire systems end to end — schema, backend, infrastructure, the model pipeline, and the interface a user actually touches — because I like owning the whole thing and I ship faster when nothing gets thrown over a wall.
Most of my work lives at the hard edges: retrieval that has to be correct, sync that has to converge, pipelines that have to stay cheap and fast in production. I care about systems that keep working after launch, not demos.
Outside the terminal I'm slowly building a JDM restomod — same instinct as the software: take something real, understand every part, and see the long project through.
Writing
How Recall's agentic RAG loop got cheaper without a model swap: handle-based retrieval, opt-in reasoning, step budgets, and usage-derived pricing
How I approached building a platform for creative writers
Deep dive into AI-powered content quality analysis
Understanding the theory behind real-time collaboration
Let’s collaborate
Reach out via email, schedule a call, or review the latest resume to see how I approach software delivery, contract execution, and technical leadership support.