Independent research · AI and computational systems
Researching AI as an Engineer.
I'm an engineer with 25 years of shipping software, products, and companies. I'm now turning that experience toward exploratory research in AI and computational systems: foundational questions about how models compute, where current approaches run out, and what different foundations might make possible. Ongoing experimental work, not a published result.
Research Direction
Foundational questions, not another AI application.
My research is exploratory: an investigation into computational foundations for AI, rather than another application built on today's models. I'm interested in where current approaches run out, what different foundations might make possible, and how research ideas survive contact with real systems. The work is early, and I'd rather understand the shape of the problem than present a thesis before it has earned one.
That direction comes out of 25 years of building: five companies, engineering leadership, and several years putting AI systems into production. I care about research that can become real technology, and about being clear when it doesn't hold.
The interesting part is still ahead.
Businesses
Five companies since 2005. Most recent first. They are where the research questions come from.
Selected Work
Systems I built to learn something: coordination, context, and what holds up in production.
FounderHawk
A multi-tenant SaaS giving founders an AI brand team: six specialized agents coordinated into one daily session.
Sandstorm Desktop
An AI agent orchestrator that runs multiple agents in parallel through Docker isolation. Open source.
Scribble Cards
A turn-based card battle game on Roblox, built with my son.
Writing
Notes on AI systems, agent orchestration, and computational ideas.
Notes on Relational Programming and miniKanren
A short introduction to relational programming, with miniKanren as the concrete example: relations, logic variables, unification, search, and what the style costs.
Notes on MRS and the ERG
A short literature review of Minimal Recursion Semantics and the English Resource Grammar: what they are, how they fit together, and what the evaluations showed.
Let's compare notes.
I'm interested in conversations with people working on computational foundations, AI systems, or hard product problems. If you're exploring something adjacent, or you think this direction is wrong, I'd like to hear it.
I read every message myself, and I'll reply either way.
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