π New Jersey | ποΈ Platform Architecture & Distributed Systems | π οΈ 25 years building
Sandboxed AI agents. Data meshes on Iceberg. A million-particle fountain in Zig. Two-time startup CTO, patent-holding tinkerer β from trading floors to IoT to B2B platforms.
- π¦ finbin: Local-first personal finance toolkit. Empower + Amazon β clean JSONL β DuckDB for the numbers.
- π§ DataMeshing: A minimal data mesh on Apache Iceberg β Trino, MinIO, Superset, and an MCP interface for AI-assisted queries, all in Docker.
- π dod-particle-challenge: A fountain of 1M particles in three color streams, rendered live in raylib. A hands-on lab for the cache/perf lessons from Mike Acton's CppCon 2014 DOD talk.
- π mcp-web-tools: MCP server for web search and fetch that runs locally on your host β no external proxy seeing your requests.
- π¨ event-sourcing: The same notification service built two ways β event-sourced vs API-driven β for comparing the tradeoffs side by side.
- ποΈ doom-emacs-config: My Emacs setup, shared because it ships table-pretty β display-only pretty rendering of pipe tables. Think
org-latex-preview, but for tables.
- π₯οΈ Pilish: Contributor to the ergonomic agent harness for Emacs β keyboard navigation, prompt-entry workflows, and customizable table rendering.
- π markdown-table-wrap & pytest-bashdoctest: Upstream contributions.
- ποΈ US 11,887,314: Co-inventor, Compressed Domain Motion Detection.
- π sprite2: Distributed Python execution for analytics workloads on AWS Lambda and dask β scale out without operating a cluster (6β).
- βοΈ dask-ecs: An opinionated CloudFormation template for spinning up a dask cluster on AWS ECS (14β).
- πΉ st-av-core / st-av-mmotion: The audio/video platform for SmartThings cameras and Samsung appliances.
- π Advent of Code: Python ('21), Rust ('22), Python ('23), Zig ('24) β and the 1BRC in Java for good measure.


