BUILDING LLM-POWERED TOOLS — AGENTS, RAG, THE WORKS. THREE YEARS DEEP, WHICH IN AI YEARS MAKES ME A FOUNDING ELDER.
OPENAI, ANTHROPIC CLAUDE, VERCEL AI SDK. CHATBOTS, COPILOTS, AND ASSISTANTS THAT DO ACTUAL WORK INSTEAD OF JUST VIBING.
EMBEDDINGS, VECTOR DATABASES, RETRIEVAL PIPELINES. MAKING YOUR PILE OF DOCUMENTS ACTUALLY ANSWER QUESTIONS.
MULTI-STEP AGENTS THAT ANALYZE DATA AND TAKE ACTIONS. LIGHTLY SUPERVISED. MOSTLY.
GETTING MODELS TO BEHAVE, THEN PROVING THEY DO WITH ACTUAL EVALUATIONS INSTEAD OF WISHFUL THINKING.
10+ YEARS BUILDING WEB APPS, MOBILE APPS, AND DATA PLATFORMS. I WRITE CODE THAT WORKS. USUALLY ON THE FIRST TRY. SOMETIMES.
FULL-STACK WITH REACT, NEXT.JS, TYPESCRIPT, NODE, PHP/LARAVEL. THE STUFF THAT MAKES BUTTONS DO THINGS.
BUILT SYSTEMS PROCESSING 14M+ DATA POINTS. I CAN MAKE YOUR DATA DO TRICKS TOO.
REACT NATIVE, CHROME EXTENSIONS. YOUR APP, ON PHONES AND IN BROWSERS, ANNOYING PEOPLE WITH NOTIFICATIONS.
AWS, DOCKER, CI/CD, CLOUDFLARE. PLUS AN EE DEGREE, SO I CAN TALK TO HARDWARE AND MICROCONTROLLERS WHEN NEEDED.
CAUSAL INFERENCE, COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, AND ECONOMIC MODELS. I QUANTIFY IMPACT WITH HONEST UNCERTAINTY RANGES INSTEAD OF CONFIDENT NONSENSE.
FIGURING OUT WHAT ACTUALLY CAUSES WHAT FROM MESSY REAL-WORLD DATA. CORRELATION IS NOT ENOUGH AND WE BOTH KNOW IT.
QUANTIFIED IMPACT ESTIMATES WITH REAL UNCERTAINTY RANGES. MONTE CARLO, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS THAT ADMIT WHAT WE DON'T KNOW.
PIPELINES AND ANALYTICS FOR CLINICAL AND OBSERVATIONAL DATA AT SCALE. I PUBLISHED 50,000+ STUDIES ON WHAT ACTUALLY HELPS.
TRANSLATING INTERVENTIONS INTO LIVES, DOLLARS, AND DALYS. THE MODELS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS.
A DECADE IN LABS DOING FAILURE ANALYSIS, CHEMICAL TESTING, AND QUALITY CONTROL. BEFORE I BUILT SOFTWARE, I SPENT YEARS FIGURING OUT WHY THINGS BREAK.
SOMETHING BROKE? I'LL FIND OUT WHY. A DECADE OF FIGURING OUT WHY THINGS FAILED SO YOU CAN STOP IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN.
FTIR, SEM/EDS, ICP, XRF, TGA, OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY. IF YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE ACRONYMS MEAN, WE SHOULD TALK.
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION, QUALITY CONTROL, COMPLIANCE TESTING. FINDING PROBLEMS BEFORE YOUR CUSTOMERS DO.
COMPLIANCE TESTING AND CONSUMER PROTECTION REGS. MAKING SURE YOUR PRODUCT DOESN'T END UP ON THE NEWS FOR THE WRONG REASONS.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE WITH PHYSICS MINOR. I UNDERSTAND BOTH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE.
INDUSTRIAL TESTING AND FAILURE ANALYSIS. I'VE SEEN THINGS BREAK IN WAYS YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE.
CAUSAL INFERENCE STUDIES PUBLISHED ON WHAT ACTUALLY HELPS WITH DISEASE. LIGHT READING.
DATA POINTS PROCESSED. I BUILT HEALTH ANALYTICS PLATFORMS BEFORE IT WAS COOL. IT'S STILL NOT COOL.
EVERY PROJECT IS DIFFERENT. I'LL GIVE YOU AN HONEST QUOTE BASED ON WHAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED, NOT A MENU PRICE THAT ASSUMES ALL PROBLEMS ARE THE SAME.
IDEALLY YOU'RE PAYING ME TO WORK ON HEALTH RESEARCH AND SAVING LIVES. BUT IF YOU NEED AN AI TOOL BUILT, A MODEL RUN, OR TO KNOW WHY YOUR PRODUCT KEEPS FAILING, THAT'S FINE TOO.