Senior Software Engineer · Applied AI

Production software, end to end. Lately, the AI parts that have to be correct.

LLM agents with tool use, retrieval pipelines, and the evaluation and human review that keep AI output right once it is live. Python, TypeScript, C#, and C++, across backends, desktop apps, and self-hosted infrastructure.

Selected work

Products, a published plugin, and side projects
Electric Pipelines · Product01

Work Games

Connections-style word puzzles generated from a client's own documents. A multi-stage LLM pipeline over a vector store, with a human-in-the-loop review UI for generating, verifying, and pairing groups before a puzzle ships.

PythonLLM pipelineHuman reviewEvals
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RAG engine · C++02

Dabarqus

A C++ retrieval-augmented generation engine and server for indexing and searching document collections, built for local, on-prem retrieval.

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Electric Pipelines · Product03

Deepseek Unchained

A cross-platform Electron desktop app for local LLM chat, with a React front end, in-app store, and Stripe payments, running on a custom C++ inference engine.

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Published plugin04

Chat for WordPress

A published WordPress plugin: a Node.js backend that indexes the site's content and answers visitors' questions grounded in it.

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Side project05

PastePocket

Copy on one device, paste on another. A gRPC server with Redis-backed sessions and native clients across five platforms.

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Personal · Self-hosted AI06

Lectore

A self-hosted audiobook server with XTTS-v2 voice cloning and a FIFO queue on a Mac mini worker.

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Personal · MCP07

Story Vault

Markdown progress tracking for my fiction, with a custom MCP connector so AI assistants can read and update it.

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Personal · In design08

Scholiaste

A writing environment with a reader built in. In design.

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About

Seven years at Electric Pipelines, a small software company in Kalamazoo, shipping products and client systems from the first conversation through production. The company builds automation, custom bots, and AI-powered tools.

These days the work is mostly agentic systems: tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, guardrails, and the evaluation harnesses that tell you when a model is confidently wrong. I build with Claude Code daily, spec first and tests first, and review what it writes before it merges.

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