About
Primate Labs
Background
I'm a software engineer and builder with a background in distributed systems and a compulsion to take on projects that sit at the edge of what's practically achievable. I care about the craft — not just the outcome, but how things are made, what tradeoffs were made, and whether the design holds under pressure.
Most of my career has been spent building backend infrastructure and data systems for companies at different scales. I've worked on things that needed to be reliable at millions of requests per second, and on things that needed to ship on a Tuesday regardless of elegance.
In recent years, I've gotten increasingly interested in the intersection of AI and real-world systems — not the demo layer, but the part where you have to actually make probabilistic outputs fit into deterministic software. That problem space has a lot of interesting engineering left in it.
What This Is
Primate Labs is the umbrella for my independent work — open source projects, consulting engagements, hardware experiments, and writing. It's not a company in the traditional sense. It's a place to build things seriously without the constraints of a product roadmap.
The projects that come out of here tend to be tools I wanted to exist and had to build myself, or explorations into technical areas I needed to understand deeply. Some ship. Some don't. All of them teach something.
Current Focus
- LLM orchestration and inference optimization at the infrastructure layer
- Tooling for AI system evaluation and observability
- 3D-printed hardware for motion control and robotics
- Writing about the systems engineering challenges in AI products
Connect
I'm occasionally available for consulting work on distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and technical architecture. I prefer problems where the technical challenge is the interesting part.
The best way to reach me is email. If you're working on something interesting or want to talk about any of the projects here, I'm genuinely interested.