Staff ML Engineer @ Google building local-first AI tools, agent workflows, and practical consumer apps.
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"style": "ship useful tools, then open-source the parts that help builders",
"current_focus": "AI systems that stay useful under human control",
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| Project | Stars | Why it exists |
|---|---|---|
| Flying Pig AI |  |
AI customer-service advocate that runs in a supervised local dashboard, drives support chats, and pauses at decision checkpoints before consequential actions. |
| mychart-cli |  |
Public local-first CLI for exporting patient-owned MyChart records through a Chrome/Puppeteer harness while keeping credentials and raw records local. |
| Perks Reminder |  |
Free, open-source credit card benefits tracker for welcome bonuses, annual fees, recurring credits, certificates, and loyalty expirations. |
| FreshPowder |  |
Ski and snowboard deal aggregator tracking 12k+ current and historical deals across 28+ North American retailers every 6 hours. |
| CastForge |  |
Source-to-podcast automation framework extracted from Nitan Podcast, with reusable pipeline stages, audio integrations, publishing, and validation. |
| Nitan Podcast |  |
Weekly Chinese podcast generated from USCardForum discussions and shipped through RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and GitHub Pages. |
| Context Harness |  |
Tiny filesystem memory layer for coding agents: AGENTS.md, CONTEXT.md, NOW.md, PLAN.md, and small local scripts. |
| Agent Nexus |  |
One manifest for deploying skills, hooks, and MCP servers across Claude Code, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Codex, and related IDEs. |
- Local-first AI that keeps user data and decisions close to the user.
- Agent control planes that make AI coding sessions more durable and inspectable.
- Consumer utilities that replace private spreadsheets with real products.
- Practical automation that keeps humans in the loop for consequential actions.
