Flight log · New York City
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CALLSIGN: CURIOSITY // TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER · FOUNDER OF CODEPOET
Software engineer with the soul of a mad scientist. Nine years flying through developer platforms, fintech, and one AI startup. This is the mission log: five planets, one chess puzzle, a rover with a message, and a shelf of stories. Poke everything. That's the point.
OPEN TO applied-AI roles · eng manager or technical PM · fintech · NYC or remote
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↑ a small solar system of my career. click or tap a planet to fly there.
Mission 01 · 2015–2016 · Seattle
Planet AmazonSoftware Development Intern · Alexa Machine Learning Platform
First landing. A jungle planet of graph databases and voice assistants, where I learned that shipping beats theorizing.
- Built an event-based microservice ingesting prototype data into Blazegraph (the precursor to AWS Neptune), with a ~100ms query API over the Alexa ontology using RDF triplets.
- Built an ML inference store for Alexa's knowledge database that later shipped in production Alexa Brain.
Mission 02 · 2017–2019 · McLean, VA
Planet Capital OneSoftware Engineer · Card & Small Business Technology
A ringed world of fintech at scale. Fraud platforms, event-driven everything, and my first taste of infrastructure as code.
- Automated a PySpark pipeline processing 50,000 customer debt records daily, asynchronously, on cloud architecture.
- Designed Terraform event-driven microservices to onboard Walmart customers onto a fraud-detection platform.
- Shipped an API + Spark workflow enrolling 20,000 new accounts on AWS Lambda and S3. (Circle of Excellence Award.)
Mission 03 · 2019–2024 · Seattle
Planet OracleSenior Software Engineer · Access Control Ecosystem
The red planet. Four years of government-grade identity infrastructure, where 99.99% uptime is the job description and downtime is not an option.
- Architected OCI's company-wide Identity Provider portal from scratch (React, Node.js, Terraform, Java); it became the default onboarding surface for every new service needing access control.
- Built a refreshable cache in Go over Oracle Cloud object storage, cutting P99 latency and killing redundant API calls during burst traffic.
- Built synthetic canary monitoring that continuously exercised the live auth flow (JWT → cert → regional login) against government-grade RBAC services, paging on threshold breaches; it caught region-wide outages and bad releases early, supporting 99.99% availability.
Mission 04 · 2024–2025 · New York
Planet OptoLead Software Engineer · Opto Investments
An ice giant with a $300M ring system. First command post: leading a squad, aligning stakeholders, and making private markets legible.
- Led a 4-engineer team building a fund-tracking engine over $300M+ in live assets, with cross-fund roll-up calculations, third-party integrations, and stakeholder-facing data viz.
- Engineered event-driven transaction pipelines and real-time dashboards that ingest, process, and reconcile highly concurrent portfolio state changes with strict auditability and zero data loss.
- Cut AI diligence latency 7s → <3.5s by refactoring the enrichment pipeline across every endpoint.
- Prototyped and deployed internal APIs letting AI agents read structured investment data and take programmable actions across custom-fund workflows.
Mission 05 · 2025–present · The Frontier
Planet CodePoetFounder & Principal Engineer · you are here 📍
AI writes your code now. So who checks it against what you actually asked for? CodePoet turns intent into a contract, then hands you receipts every time the code drifts from it.
- Built the trust loop: capture intent, approve it as a living contract, then a GitHub App that reviews every PR and flags behavioral regressions before merge. Running live across 50+ repos.
- Engineered Tolkien, a deterministic tree-sitter engine that reads a codebase's real structure and standards, replacing flaky LLM scanning: 2s vs. 30–60s at $0 marginal cost, with call-graph blast-radius and drift scoring across 300+ symbol types.
- Built a model-routing harness inside the Claude Code wrapper that sends each task to the right model, using eval infrastructure to pick the cheapest model that still passes, stretching a single subscription much further.
Mission 06 · plotting a course
What's NextCoordinates still being set
CodePoet keeps shipping. Alongside it, I'm looking for the next place to point nine years of range: applied-AI work in fintech or developer tooling, as an engineering manager or technical PM, where I get to build the product and own the calls.
However it's framed, it gets built the same way everything in this system was: technology for the customer, starting from the customer. If that's the kind of person your team needs, the channel is open.
Systems check · Ship's instruments
What's on the console
Nine years of instruments, still all lit. Engineer depth, plus the lead and product roles that decide where the depth points.
Languages
AI / LLM systems
Platform & infra
Architecture
Interlude · Strategy
The Knight's Gambit
Chess taught me the thing I use most at work: the best move is rarely the straight line. It also won me an Ohio state championship, so the knight and I go way back. My resume is in the vault. Guide the knight ♞ to the beacon ◆ to decrypt it.
🔒 VAULT STATUS: ENCRYPTED · awaiting knight at beacon square e5…
Interlude · Why "Curiosity"
They Called Us Curiosity
We spent centuries staring up and asking if anyone was out there. Then, instead of waiting for an answer, we built small brave robots. We gave them wheels, silicon brains, and names like Spirit, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Curiosity, and we sent them to other worlds to say: we existed, and we were the kind of species that wanted to meet you.
That's what stories are to me: signals we send so nobody has to feel alone. Every book on the shelf below is one of those signals. Honestly, so is this site.
"and they told us to tell you hello."from a post about the Mars rovers that I think about a lot
UNIT: CURIOSITY · STATUS: STILL GOING
arrow keys work too. the rover likes company.
Interlude · Signals received
The Ship's Library
Every long flight needs a shelf. Not all of these are science fiction, but all of them are signals. They shaped how I think about systems, people, and the future. Pull one down.
Pick a spine ↑
the shelf is judging you politely
Click any book to see why it earned a permanent slot on a spaceship with strict weight limits.
Final transmission
Open a Channel
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