Work
Agent orchestration
- Zafin
- Leading AI and product engineering, with a focus on reliable agent orchestration and human review.
- Podcast with Microsoft's Head of Banking Strategy
- A conversation with Tyler Pichach about AI in financial services and enterprise software.
- AI Presence Kit
- A renderer-agnostic presence runtime for AI interfaces, with React, adapter, and reference-face packages.
- Money 20/20 Presentation (2023)
- Presented at Money20/20 on Microsoft’s AI stage, sharing an early roadmap that we later built out and executed.
Earlier orchestration and production AI
- IBM production AI and orchestration
- Production AI used by more than 20 million people. IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2022.
- Auditable Network of Containers
- Published IP on transactions between non-trusting parties using auditable networks.
Robotics
- SO-101 Robot (LeRobot)
- Robotics experiments with the SO-101, including first movement tests and video.
- Vision-Based Robot Arm Motion
- Built vision-based motion control experiments for robot arms.
- Robotic Conference and Vision
- Built a system that combined robotic vision and conferencing for remote interaction experiments.
- Smart Locker
- Designed and built a smart locker system for secure storage experiments.
Simulation
- Many Lives
- A multi-agent simulation exploring coordination and persistent behavior in a shared world.
- Boston Dynamics Spot Simulation
- Built simulation environments for Boston Dynamics Spot experiments.
Spatial computing
- Shape of μ (VisionOS)
- A VisionOS project exploring 3D graphing and spatial interaction.
Earlier work on interactive systems
- Home Hub (Touch, Voice, Display)
- Built a home hub that combined touch, voice, and display in one system.
- Dynamic Retail E-Paper Labels
- Designed e-paper labels for retail stores with real-time updates.
- Smart Surface Projection
- Built a projection system for interactive display experiments.
Product building
- Nimbus POS
- A bootstrapped restaurant platform, built and operated from 2015 to 2018.
- Video Transcript Analysis
- Built a web app (thegreatmind.org) for analyzing video transcripts and extracting useful structure from them.
Education
- MBA Schulich School of Business, York University
- Focused on finance and entrepreneurship.
- Mech Eng University of Waterloo
- Focused on robotics and aerodynamics. 4th year research on ornithopter / drone.