I build tools for AI agents and contribute across open source, with 290+ changes merged into 140+ repositories in Python, Rust, Go, TypeScript, C/C++, and Java for organizations like Nous Research, NVIDIA, Sakana AI, Qwen, Tencent, Hugging Face, Apache, and Mozilla. Most of my focus is on agent memory, evaluation, and self-evolution, including ongoing work on Hermes Agent alongside Hermes Agent Self-Evolution, SkillEvaluator, Molt, ShinkaEvolve, autocontext, and headlong.

Among other projects, I created Compartment, an encrypted, offline memory server for AI agents that ships in the Hermes Agent plugin catalog and has one click setup with Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, VS Code, OpenClaw, and other MCP clients. Rather than plain vector storage, it keeps single-claim memories with source provenance, links them in an entity graph, tracks opinion updates separately from facts, and recalls them in ~12 ms with hybrid vector and keyword search. I also built Max Watch, a free motion-activated Mac security camera app that records while the screen is locked, and Artificial Knowledge Collection 6.0, a cleaned common-sense and reference knowledge dataset for AI.

Challenges authored for Datacurve's ShipD platform, each accepted after automated checks, solver runs and human review; ten are included here as examples, with the hidden tests and reference solutions withheld to protect Datacurve's proprietary benchmark material:

• netflix/archaius: Decode sorted and navigable collections
• webpack/enhanced-resolve: Stream distinct yielded resolutions with complete, transparent unsafe-cache outcomes
• pycqa/flake8: Correct suppression decisions and explain hidden violations
• gitpython-developers/gitpython: Add typed repository status snapshots from Git porcelain v2
• instagram/libcst: Bind match capture patterns and comprehension walrus targets in scope metadata
• coleifer/peewee: Add ROLLUP, FETCH FIRST and TABLESAMPLE support to the query builder
• qmonnet/rbpf: Support the eBPF CPU v4 instructions
• mortbopet/ripes: Add the RISC-V B bit-manipulation extension
• tobymao/sqlglot: Support postgres session statements and the @ and ^@ operators
• chipsalliance/verible: Recognise default arms in the inside, matches and generate case forms, and require begin and end after do, repeat and final

• NousResearch/hermes-agent: credited as a contributor in the v2026.6.19, v2026.7.1, v2026.8.3, v2026.9.11 and v0.22.0 release notes
  • fix(models): muse-spark 1.2/1.3 are on the Nous Portal, stop hiding them from the Nous picker
  • fix(tui): close agents orphaned during session build
  • fix(tui): make the launch cwd win over an inherited HERMES_CWD
  • feat(plugin-catalog): add compartment (encrypted offline memory provider)
  • fix(skills): make bundled-update backup handling crash-safe and idempotent
  • test(skills): add regression tests for bundled-update backup recovery
  • fix(curator): stop the rollback safety snapshot from pruning its target
  • fix(curator): stop restore from matching unrelated skills by name prefix
  • fix(tools): stop read_file rendering a phantom empty line for newline-terminated files
  • Merge consecutive same-role contents for native Gemini
  • fix(config): merge duplicate kanban block so auto_subscribe_on_create default survives
  • fix(curator): restore the real skills tree when a rollback extract dies part-way
  • fix(yuanbao): await the forwarded-records loading heartbeat
  • fix(auth): a transient read failure is not corruption
  • fix(gateway): do not claim a destructive-slash opt-out that was not saved
  • fix(sessions): briefly wait out a live compression lock instead of killing the turn
  • fix(cli): dispatch /background inline instead of queuing it behind the turn
  • test: restore four silently shadowed definitions and guard against more
  • fix(gemini): collapse array-typed tool schemas instead of crashing translation
• NousResearch/hermes-agent-self-evolution
  • fix(config): honor explicit --hermes-repo and make config construction non-fatal
• NousResearch/hermes-example-plugins
  • docs(plugin-llm-async-example): correct the concurrency description and usage example
• NousResearch/hermes-plugin-blender
  • docs: correct the result contract and document the _for_cli Blender lookup
• NousResearch/hermes-plugin-claude-subscription-directsdk
  • fix: explain a logged-out CLI instead of a bare Native API error
• NousResearch/wandb-rs
  • Add Run::finish() to flush pending logs before exit

• NVIDIA/barney
  • Run the datatype regression test against the native source
  • anari: fix crash on curves without primitive.index or vertex.radius
• NVIDIA/cccl
  • Add count_if NVHPC stdpar smoke test
• NVIDIA/cloudai
  • Make File.is_installed binary-safe
• NVIDIA/cluster-readiness-engine
  • test: exercise release ref guards and follow attest wrappers
• NVIDIA/cuopt-examples
  • Fix EARLI notebook links in the README
  • Fix the infeasible shift cap in the workforce MILP notebook
• NVIDIA/DALI
  • Document that random_shuffle shuffles only locally
  • Fix wds2idx offsets of members with GNU long names
• NVIDIA/deepops
  • tests/slurm-epilog: check the cleanup status and add pathname regressions
  • fix(setup): install the documented config/requirements.yml
• NVIDIA/go-nvml
  • Trim sample and topology results to the returned count
• NVIDIA/makani
  • Read channel names from the "channel" dataset in h5_convert.py
  • Count each sample once in the ACC, SSR and spread of masked data
  • Fix UnboundLocalError in the CRPS losses for single member forecasts with spatial weights
• NVIDIA/multi-storage-client
  • fix(pathlib): compare profiles in is_relative_to
  • fix(fsspec): honor start and end in cat_file
• NVIDIA/nodewright
  • fix(operator): scope package pod events to the operator namespace
• NVIDIA/nvbench
  • Sync the vendored RAPIDS.cmake with rapids-cmake release/25.12
• NVIDIA/OWL
  • Add OWL_DOUBLE types to typeToString
  • Skip released ray gens when building the SBT
• NVIDIA/rumpelpod
  • Skip .gitmodules entries that have no gitlink
• NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator
  • feat(reporting): record the evaluated source identity on benchmark cards
  • fix(judge): treat an "unavailable" schema option as a schema rejection
  • fix(quality): score non-mapping metadata instead of crashing
• NVIDIA/sphinx-llm
  • Read page descriptions on older Docutils releases
  • Use the package summary as the default llms.txt description
• NVIDIA/stdexec
  • Fix completion signature detection with GCC 13.1 and 13.2
  • Make the clangd helper target optional and tolerate a missing source
  • Fix when_all and when_any completing twice under a racing stop request
• NVIDIA/TileGym
  • fix(ops): export tilecpp only when its backend is available
  • fix(ci): use run_all_json result file names in the selective baseline merge
• NVIDIA-NeMo/labs-molt
  • fix(recipe): resubmit the renamed GLM-5.2 Slurm script
  • fix(chat): keep every message a turn appends after the reply
• NVIDIA-RTX/NRI
  • Fix: include NRIRayTracing.h in NRIWrapperVK.h
  • Fix: block-aligned mip extents for non-power-of-2 and non-square ASTC blocks

• softpower: Fix the power-off delay spinner range overflowing int16_t
• Voodoo: Fix nccTable0 Q2 writes landing in the I2 coefficient
• XTA: Restore the missing break in the WDXT-150 case
• Config: Fix crash loading a config without a mouse_type key
• net_plip: Fix misplaced parenthesis disabling the transmit bounds check
• Fix machines and BIOS entries missing on case-sensitive filesystems
• GUS: Fix the ADC sample rate divisor missing the +2 bias
• MIDI: Fix input queue overflow hang and broken real-time bytes
• GM82C803C: Fix the serial port IRQ selection

• apache/answer
  • fix: comment url swaps title and answer id
• apache/datafusion
  • fix: apply regexp_instr subexpr to the N-th match, not the first
• apache/datasketches-java
  • Fix Util.numDigits returning 0 for 0 and 1, and 18 for 1E18
  • Fix JaccardSimilarity.exactlyEqual throwing for small theta sketches
• apache/logging-log4j2
  • Forward mail attributes in deprecated SmtpAppender.createAppender
  • Fix merging of structured data elements with the same SD-ID in Rfc5424Layout

• Tencent/BrowserSkill
  • fix(record): record a page reload instead of dropping it as a same-URL navigation
  • fix(extension): return visible labels from select
  • fix(dsh-plugin): settle runner promises when the child never emits close
  • fix(extension): preserve plus keys in keyboard chords
• Tencent/WeKnora
  • fix(knowledge): keep long non-ASCII folder names valid UTF-8
  • fix(docreader): keep Markdown block structure in EPUB chapters

• mozilla/pontoon
  • Update data-theme when the user picks a theme
  • Don't highlight search matches inside markup
• mozilla/web-ext
  • fix(sign): Defaulted amoBaseUrl when signing from the Node API
  • fix: Fixed files not being ignored when sourceDir contains glob characters
  • fix(chromium): Fixed silent reload failures on Chrome 125 and earlier

• fix(shared): read input_audio.format from a URL's path, not its query string
• fix(shared): normalize box corner order before drawing
• fix(core): apply EXIF orientation in read_image, crop and draw_bbox
• fix(core): reject a page selection that matches no page
• fix(shared): draw boxes in color on grayscale, palette and CMYK images

• Fix numTemporalLayers and temporalIdNested bit widths in hvcC
• Fix discarded errors in marshalSlice and marshalUint
• Fix unmarshalling of sgpd RollDistancesL

• fix(rag): escape Excel Markdown table cells
• fix(formatter): put parallel Gemini function responses in one user turn
• fix(formatter): keep parallel Ollama tool calls on one assistant message

• fix(asp.net): correct the server side comment terminator
• fix(dart): count single quoted string literals
• fix(twig): count {# #} comments

• Honor language= in onesignal:// and preserve it through url()
• Preserve query parameters in signl4:// url()
• Honor +Arg=Val and -Arg in ifttt:// URLs

• Fix copysign() dropping the magnitude when y is zero
• Fix sign() returning 1 for NaN
• Fix matmul() broadcasting for operands of different ranks

• Fix annotation rectangle under a rotated transformation matrix
• Fix doc.list() throwing on a numbered or lettered list with align center or right
• Fix name tree keys being sorted by locale instead of by their bytes

• httputil: fix quality value parsing in ParseMultiValuesHeader
• compress: fix quality value of 0 being ignored in getEncoder
• fsutil: fix zero padding being sniffed in DetectContentType

• fix: default dataclass metadata to a dict, not a pydantic FieldInfo
• fix: mirror every compaction ledger append, not only large chunks
• fix: order same-second human feedback rows newest first in the Python store

• [fix] Write the sparsity CSV columns once in three sparse evaluators
• [docs] Describe the MarginMSE target as the signed margin
• [fix] Stack tensor-formatted labels in the CrossEncoder data collator

• Fix $not filters on dot-notation paths
• Keep default parsers when only some are overridden
• Fix DECIMAL values off by one ulp from inexact scaling

• fix(bitbucket): send redirect_uri on the authorize hop
• fix(logs): compare whole segments in path guard
• fix(security): honour the failed-login time window

• fix(eval): stop a comma from swallowing the GSM8K answer
• fix(eval): honor a stated "answer is X" in multiple choice
• fix(eval): find the choice letter when CJK text touches it

• fix(search): derive snippet spans from the matched bytes
• fix(quality): keep signal excerpts on rune boundaries
• fix(frontend): count search results, not reply lines, in tool summaries

• traj: recursive tail and cat return the whole tree, in order
• ci: point the smoke container's apt at the Azure mirror
• traj: formatted tail and cat return the steps --filter matches

• fix(parser): restrict continue targets to iteration statement labels
• fix(parser): parse / after an await identifier as division
• fix(parser): don't extend yield with member access, calls or binary operators

• 🐛 core: fix query hash collisions from the shared sort buffer
• Finish the destroy cascade when a subscriber destroys an entity
• 🐛 core: fix tracking queries throwing after world.reset()

• fix: keep the bytes after a Hue/Saturation block's range records (#645)
• fix: replace the layer at an index instead of inserting before it
• fix: read and composite a legacy Brightness/Contrast layer

• fix(resources): center a plate on the adapter hole's y size, not its x size
• fix(resources): stop transposing a tip spot's size_x and size_y
• fix(resources): align a lidded plate on a plate adapter by its wells

• fix: don't break the JSON export on a single quote in the path
• fix: write the Feather file version the Data Exporter asked for
• fix: make the SQLite Data Catalog's Describe and Show DDL actions work

• fix(report-file): surface write stream errors instead of a TypeError
• fix(server): honor multiple onlyContentTypes and non-matching Accept
• fix(server): stop serving siblings that share the cwd prefix

• fix(diff): compare bad file extensions case-insensitively
• fix(bitbucket): send inline comment ranges with start_to
• fix(github): use the GraphQL endpoint on GitHub Enterprise Server

• fix: match ip_type case-insensitively in IONOS and Hetzner providers
• fix: discard wrong-family IP instead of returning it from getIPOnline
• fix: keep Cloudflare record comment and tags when updating the IP

• fix(input): type AltGr characters in the command, search and filter prompts
• fix(azure): cap error details by characters so non-ASCII bodies don't panic

• fix(wiki): drop a leading BOM on a page with no frontmatter
• fix(importer): keep subtitle cues that follow two blank lines

• Report each builtin's own name when it errors
• Accept a string for overlay/match by= on documents

• Fix trec_eval dropping the first evaluation option
• Fix create_model_coordinator rejecting valid prompt template paths

• fix(utils): don't evict a key when overwriting an existing LRUCache entry
• fix(utils): advance the token bucket timestamp even when the bucket is full

• fix: add missing providers to KnownProviders
• fix(minimax): fix swapped cache read/write prices

• fix(chcol): return true from HasType when the Variant carries a type
• fix(churl): validate each host of a comma separated DSN authority

• Clear a queued song's row without taking the playlist's own
• Keep the first line of a .lrc file saved with a byte order mark

• channel: Implement Display and Error for TryReadyError and ReadyTimeoutError
• ShardedLock: Fix Debug implementation for ShardedLock{Read,Write}Guard

• fix: Rewrite F() expressions inside Q objects
• fix: Rewrite translated field names in all annotate() expressions

• misc: Snapshot the environment when a switchenv is entered
• data: Fix negative slice bounds along modulo-indexed Dimensions

• fix(cli): split key=value pairs at the first separator
• Fix SQL name transforms failing on JSON arrays that contain null

• Strip the r# prefix from raw identifiers in derive(Debug)
• Fix a panic with cfg attributes on items named with raw identifiers

• Fix comment handling when looking for commands
• Don't submit incomplete REPL input that uses the '_ lifetime

• fix: report the decoded filename on LIMIT_FILE_SIZE
• fix: allow a field value exactly at the fieldSize limit

• fix: drop unmatched properties when additionalProperties is false
• fix: apply the else branch when a schema has if and else but no then

• Disable debuginfod doctests in libcdb.unstrip_libc on stable
• fix(packing): dd() raises TypeError on a bytearray destination

• fix: keep grid_with_text labels on their anchors
• fix: stretch taper_adiabatic to an explicit length

• fix(libreoffice): report an encrypted .xlsb as password-protected
• fix(api): match the OIDC Bearer scheme case-insensitively

• fix(video-subtitles): keep the space between merged subtitle clauses
• fix(quick): read the deck language and theme fonts from the roster's first page

• Fix CudaCallable type inference never being called
• Fix ISPC code generation for subscripted private temporaries

• Fix added_lines and deleted_lines dropping "++" and "--" content
• Fix old_path and new_path being wrong for empty added or deleted files

• fix(core): parse MiMo Code and fx on the local report path
• fix(qwen): stop counting cached and reasoning tokens twice

• fix(rbacgraph): order escalation results instead of reading map order
• fix(printer): include exception audit and namespace summaries in YAML output

• man: fix option names that archive_write_set_options rejects
• write: report close callback failures from archive_write_close()

• fix(fs): 修复文件系统服务器的路径越界检查漏判同级目录
• fix(character): 修复新杀谋周瑜【英谋】阴状态结算死循环

• Fix Wickersmith's Tools creating untapped Scarecrow tokens
• [SOI] Fix Sage of Ancient Lore's back face dying as a 0/0 on transform

• auth: strip a terminating slash from the issuer before building metadata URLs
• mcp: skip non-message events in SSEClientTransport

• fix(oxvg_optimiser): keep ellipses selected by a stylesheet in convertShapeToPath
• fix(oxvg_optimiser): keep defaults used by attribute selectors in removeUnknownsAndDefaults

• fix(eload): cache mode only after the driver confirms set_mode
• fix(dmm): release the driver and reset apply state when close() fails

• Flush sinks and run periodic tasks when manual backend polling drains the queues
• Keep thread names longer than 15 characters on macOS

• fix(reference): reorder Unique outputs correctly when sorted=0
• fix(reference): accept scalar and omitted optional inputs in NonMaxSuppression

• fix(cache): clone cached issues to stop issue paths from accumulating
• fix(i18n): add missing async action translations

• fix(server): relay client websocket closes with a legal code
• fix(sdk-python): ignore a trailing slash or /v1 in the connection domain

• fix: attribute recursive copy tag failures to the destination
• fix: report no referenceAsTags for an untagged push

• fix: handle strokes wider than the shape in Ellipse.strokeContains
• fix: clamp the corner radius in RoundedRectangle.strokeContains

• Fix the semihosting file open modes for update and append
• Fix the semihosting SYS_READ return value for partial reads

• Fix provider logo image requests when the logo has an image service
• Fix canvas description for v3 summaries and language-tagged v2 values

• Sort extra keys when formatting ForbiddenExtraKeysError
• Escape the index note when structuring heterogeneous tuples

• [0.11.x] proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length
• proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length

• [rtext] Fix TextToPascal()/TextToCamel() truncating text after a separator
• [rtext] Fix TextSplit() reading past its buffer on text of 1024 bytes or more

• hir: resolve callback optional-opaque returns in the enclosing module
• kotlin: use renamed names for struct and enum field types

• fix(cline): close a stripped block at its own closing tag
• fix(git): read numstat paths unquoted, as git status already does

• fix: canonical image name for registries addressed by host and port
• fix: handle nodes, kinds and defaults defined without a body

• fix(lexer): close multi-line string after escaped backslash
• fix(parser): accept zero floats with an uppercase exponent

• Fix wrapText cache key collision between different texts and widths
• Fix multi-line <Text> vanishing when it starts above the top of the output

• Scope schedule and repo CLI list calls to the Velero namespace
• Allow backup and restore logs to be fetched while Finalizing

• fix: keep the namespace prefix in attributes()
• fix: stub directives registered with a camelCase or kebab-case name

• Fix q weights in Accept header parsing
• Strip optional whitespace when splitting headers on ,

• fix(adapters): quote YAML scalars in OpenCode and Copilot frontmatter
• fix(plugin-eval): count each fenced code block once, not once per fence

• fix(search): break score ties deterministically so ranking is reproducible
• fix(chunker): stop emitting a redundant chunk at the end of every file

• fix(zod): treat @uuid without a version as any UUID version
• fix(orm): enforce field validation attributes and @@validate inside custom types

• fix: keep model download lock PID when acquisition fails
• fix(files): download files whose names are not ASCII

• fix(shortcuts): accept bare Return as a macOS shortcut key

• fix(vec): round half-way cases away from zero in the SIMD backends

• fix(string): reject signed Infinity and non-decimal literals in StringToNumber

• fix(react): read the important marker only at the end of a value

• Report a package in multiple fixed or linked groups only once

• Fix SOL-ARK-LV-CAN 0x359 over-current sign bug

• Fix argument order in the async middleware lockout response

• embassy-sync: wake the next waiter when a FairSemaphore acquire is canceled

• fix(eventbridge,scheduler): read cron day-of-week as AWS 1-7 SUN-SAT

• Avoid signed overflow in RGBLINK's +, -, and *

• Fix overflow panic draining an empty tree with integer coordinates

• fix(util): return an error when a crit section panics

• drive_virtual: fix CHDIR succeeding on a file on drive Z:

• fix(deployer): merge gmsaCredentialSpecName from its own field

• fix(search): stop a repeated URL from faking cross-engine agreement

• fix(ts): keep byte RLE within the lengths its headers can express

• [markdown] Omit the link and image title when the HTML has none

• fix(metrics): mask ignored labels in padding-free seq_acc

• [nobohub] Fix ignored keepaliveInterval setting

• Fix UnboundLocalError in reward.py: compute_score cannot compute any reward

• Stop Span::lines from yielding a line past the span

• fix(types): hash 0.0 and -0.0 to the same value

• notify: fix panic when truncating multi-byte messages

• Qute: require the index parameter for list get/take/takeLast

• fix(llm): match extract_between tags literally so C++ fences extract cleanly

• fix: read @ResponseStatus from the controller class

• fix(singlestoredb): support % as the modulo operator

• fix(backend): 修复章节导出成品在 24 小时有效期内被清理删除的问题

• fix(query-persist-client-core/createPersister): await 'storage.setItem' when persisting a query

• fix(redact): route JSONL payloads through the structure-aware pass

• fmt: honor -x and -X instead of always matching prefixes exactly

• [Doc] Fix markdownlint findings in the serving API reference

• Compartment: Encrypted, fully offline agentic memory. One click install, GUI w/ memory map, all OS and agents. Superior memory creation, storage and retrieval. Python, Apache-2.0, with a docs site. Listed in Awesome-AI-Memory, Awesome-AI-Agents, Awesome-Agent-Memory, awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-mcp, toolsdk-mcp-registry, awesome-ai-plugins.
• nuclear-computing: Nuclear compute (radiative compute) as an alternative computing substrate to electronic and quantum machines: one radioactive medium supplies power, logic, memory, and interconnect, enabling sealed portable computers that compute without external power.
• artificial-knowledge-collection-6.0: Knowledge of special interest to AI: nine datasets of concepts, relationships, constants and measurements, each one clean file, aligned into a single 544,279-node map, plus a reasoning benchmark. Artificial knowledge for artificial intelligence.

• MBA, University of Adelaide (now Adelaide University), 2024
• Google IT Support Professional Certificate
• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate
• Google Project Management Professional Certificate
• Library & Information Services, University of Adelaide and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
• Foundations of Finance, University of Cambridge
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Board Approved Member, Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW, since 2026
• National Member, National Seniors Australia, since 2025

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