Journey
What I’ve built, made, and learned
A running log of projects, pivots and side quests, plus the stories, music and stranger corners of this site that don’t fit anywhere else.
Timeline
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Asymmetry
Coordinated four parallel Devins in a five-hour hackathon to build digital-twin agents that surface the supply and demand hidden in your extended network.
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T Run · MBTA Route Studio
A rail schedule backend and route studio for planning a Guinness World Record all-stations MBTA run.
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Jackputer
A nand2tetris computer from NAND gates up, compiled to Verilog and rendered as explorable chip visualizations.
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Jackipedia
A Wikipedia-style personal knowledge base, compiled from Markdown into a searchable site.
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In the press
Featured in AFP-syndicated coverage on AI agent autonomy and consent, picked up by The Straits Times and The Economic Times.
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Rolo
Relationship intelligence for operators: search your network by intent, prep for meetings in minutes, and keep context attached to people.
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Agent School
Started Agent School to build where people and agents actually work together, beginning with Agent Slack and multi-agent workflows.
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Personal Site V4 & Fitness Streak
Rebuilt this site (v4), hit a streak of 10 weekly gym sessions, and got back to serious work on Limbinal.
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Weave
A dark-first React Native app that breaks goals into daily actions and keeps you consistent with streaks, proof and coaching.
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MAGK CTO
Stepped up as CTO at MAGK, an AI workflow automation startup applying multi-agent systems to productivity.
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Quantum Labs acquired
Quantum Labs was acquired by Hatch Coding in a six-figure deal, validating a systematic approach to building mission-driven businesses.
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ARKOS at MIT SIPB
Backend work on agent orchestration, memory modules and state graphs for ARK, the modular assistant platform from MIT SIPB.
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Delight
A goal companion for ambitious people that starts with how you feel and uses a three-tier memory system.
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Buildspace Nights & Weekends S4
Shipped alongside a global cohort of builders, and learned to ship faster and think bigger.
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Efficore
Co-founded Efficore: energy optimization that treats a whole facility as one controllable system.
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Hackathon wins & Elon calls
Top 15 at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, 1st place at Digitalized and CodeDay SF, and two video calls with Elon Musk about AI and the future.
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TikTok went viral
Educational tech videos on TikTok passed 2 million total views, which made me want to keep demystifying AI for a broad audience.
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Q Hacker House, Prodicity & Limbinal
Hosted a three-week hacker house in a downtown SF loft for ten founders, researchers and makers, with nightly salon talks, Bay Area field trips, and Prodicity’s AI mentorship track pairing residents with 20+ high school builders. I ran the leasing, budget, meals and speakers. That summer I also started writing Limbinal.
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Quantum Labs launched
An online, project-based AI education program that grew to 1,500+ students worldwide with university partnerships within 20 months.
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Georgia Tech
Transferred to Georgia Tech to study Computer Science and Math, with a deeper focus on AI and robotics.
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Calend.ai
An AI copilot for Google Calendar that turns free-form requests into scheduled events.
Experiments that didn’t stick
Things I built or explored that didn’t last, and what each one taught me.
Vigama
An AI productivity app that automated scheduling and tasks from natural language.
Focus and timing matter more than scope.
Ophelus
A gamified productivity platform: task management inside a personal progress RPG.
Validate with a simple MVP before building the dream platform.
Sora video experiments
Experimental video and storytelling with OpenAI’s Sora.
Bleeding-edge tools need patience; sometimes you wait for the ecosystem.
Voice & text AI agents
Speech-to-text, LLMs and text-to-speech stitched into voice interfaces.
Voice has to feel instant. Small delays break the magic.
Personal AI avatars
LLM avatars that answered in my voice and style for async messages.
Authenticity matters more than efficiency.
Discord bot ecosystem
Bots for community management, automation and AI interactions.
Build where your community actually lives.
Creative
Writing · since July 2023
Limbinal
A book about a guy stuck in a liminal space, where reality blurs and the line between dreams and waking life disappears. It explores identity, the pursuit of meaning, and “robotic racism”.
Music · since 10th grade
SoundCloud
Mostly experimental pieces. A few highlights, including my latest track, which I’m excited about:
Stories · Instagram
One-minute stories
30+ one-minute stories with 250k+ views in total, including one reel past 1M views.
Explore
Pages that live a little off the main path.
