Staff Software Engineer · Cisco Meraki · San Francisco Bay Area
15+ years building production systems at enterprise scale — I care most about distributed systems, API design, and reliability, and enjoy the unglamorous work that makes platforms feel solid: data modeling, integration paths, performance, and being useful when things break. These days that means Rails, React, Kafka, and Kubernetes by day; off hours I build privacy-first AI tools and write about the craft of software engineering.
Encrypted memory for AI agents
A Python memory library where the platform running the agent cryptographically cannot read what users store. Client-side encryption, encrypted semantic search, PII sanitization. Published on PyPI with a preprint on Zenodo.
Voice-first AI health companion
Built for the Gemini Live Agent Challenge 2026 — a health companion you talk to instead of tapping through logging screens. Gemini Live, Veo 2, and Google ADK.
Brain-inspired memory engine
A memory engine modeled on Hopfield-style attractor dynamics — retrieval by partial cues and context rather than keys or nearest-neighbour distance.
Private voice diary
A voice diary with semantic search where entries and the search index are encrypted at rest, and no content leaves the device to answer a query.
How AI systems should remember — and who gets to read those memories. Brain-inspired retrieval. Running useful models on hardware I own. Keeping big APIs fast. I write up the papers behind my projects in plain language in the Paper TL;DR series — start with six papers that shaped how I think about AI memory. There's also a papershelf and a list of conference talks worth watching.
Drafting Desk is one of my side projects: a page for writing blog posts yourself, with notes and research beside the draft and an optional AI “partner” that ...
A short, neutral roundup of agent-memory papers that appeared on arXiv this past week (submitted Oct 13–16, 2026). Each summary comes from the paper’s own ab...
Paper: Charles Packer, Sarah Wooders, Kevin Lin, Vivian Fang, Shishir G. Patil, Ion Stoica & Joseph E. Gonzalez (UC Berkeley), MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Op...