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Career

A technical career told through five eras: what I worked on, what changed, and how the scope of the problems grew.

  1. Era 06

    Independent systems building

    Building products, engines, infrastructure, and AI systems with the freedom to follow a problem all the way down.

    2015 → present

    What changed

    The work became more end-to-end: from low-level performance and multiplayer protocols to products, open source, and AI-native tooling.

    Role history

    1. Poez Inc. Founder & CTO

      Jun 2025 → present
      FounderAIEntrepreneurshipInfrastructure
      • Founder & CTO of Poez Inc., building AI systems and developer tooling.
      • Co-founder of GoAIX.

    2. Poez Inc. Senior Software Development Engineer

      Apr 2015 → Mar 2017
      Game EngineRenderingAIMultiplatform
      • Developed a fixed-function pipeline renderer in ARM-Assembly, C, C++, Python, LUA, and Perl for low-end mobile devices, sustaining 60+ FPS.
      • Engineered a UDP-based protocol and custom P2P mechanism for multiplayer asset sharing.
      • Designed a memory-minimal 4-Dimensional Grid traversal algorithm for pathfinding.
      • Ensured compatibility across Windows, macOS, PlayStation, and Nintendo DS with a proprietary OpenGL layer.
      • Built custom self-enclosing encryption and a lightweight scripting language with efficient memory management.

    Public work

    Projects
    Poez Inc. & GoAIX AI Systems x11 Brightness & Night-Light Sliders FoodShelterAI UberSTCP Poez 4D Grid Pathfinding Poez Mobile Game Engine & Renderer Poez Multiplayer Asset Sharing
    Writing
    The kind of AI adoption I actually believe in Understanding debt: AI coding at warp speed without flying blind A Small Utility for Brightness and Night Light on X11

  2. Era 05

    Windows Shell meets AI

    Bringing AI and hardware capabilities into the Windows experiences used by people at enormous scale.

    2021 → 2025

    What changed

    The scope expanded from shipping features to shaping platform direction across Shell, hardware, OEM partners, and the next generation of intelligent experiences.

    Role history

    1. Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

      Jun 2024 → Jun 2025
      Windows ShellAIEdge ComputingLLMSLM
      • R&D AI projects spanning AI-groupware and Windows Shell AI-driven experiences.
      • Scoped exploratory efforts to quantify, benchmark, and study the limitations of SLMs and LLMs on edge computing.

    2. Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

      Mar 2021 → Jun 2024
      Windows ShellAIHardwareTaskbar
      • Delivered the Copilot AI Hardware Key - shipped code running on every laptop, desktop, VR/AR, and beyond keyboard, across countless shipping vehicles and OEM partners, to 1+ billion customers.
      • Delivered the Programmable Taskbar and the roadmap for a Programmable Shell controllable by multiple rational agents.
      • Delivered Windows 11 Widgets from prototype to shipping and servicing, and the Windows 11 Taskbar and related Shell areas.

    Public work

    Projects
    Edge AI: LLM & SLM Research Copilot AI Hardware Key Windows 11 Widgets, Taskbar & Programmable Shell

  3. Era 04

    Search becomes an experience

    Working across Search, Cortana, Bing Intelligence, and mixed-reality platforms.

    2017 → 2021

    What changed

    Machine learning moved closer to the edge and into the interface itself, making relevance, latency, and consistency across devices part of the product problem.

    Role history

    1. Microsoft Senior Software Architect

      Jan 2020 → Mar 2021
      SearchMachine LearningEdgeWindows Shell
      • Delivered Search, News, and dynamic content across the Microsoft ecosystem - processing local and remote signals, with ML models optimized and pushed from server to run on the edge.
      • Implemented a robust user-customizable experience consistent across devices and platforms, aggregating customized feeds across social and news sources.

    2. Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer

      Apr 2017 → Jan 2020
      SearchCortanaBingMachine LearningMixed Reality
      • Delivered Search, Cortana, and Bing Intelligence across the Microsoft ecosystem - native implementation with APIs for online components.
      • Platforms from Windows to Universal Windows Platform, HoloLens (AR), Mixed Reality (VR), and beyond.
      • Placed first in Harry Shum's AI&R 2017 hackathon and 3rd place Worldwide Consumer 2017.

    Public work

    Projects
    Edge Content Intelligence Search, Cortana & Bing Intelligence

  4. Era 03

    Rendering and dependable platforms

    From browser internals and Windows UX to secure healthcare infrastructure.

    2012 → 2015

    What changed

    The center of gravity moved from optimizing a rendering engine to designing complete platforms that had to remain compatible, secure, and dependable in production.

    Role history

    1. EcoMed Services Software Development Engineer II

      Mar 2014 → Apr 2015
      InfrastructureBackendHealthcareFull Stack
      • Led development and deployment of a secure online biomedical treatment infrastructure for healthcare providers, aligned with HEPA standards.
      • NodeJS with bespoke native modules, load balancing, SQL/MongoDB with C# and Python, and ReactJS/jQuery front-end.

    2. Microsoft Software Development Engineer

      Apr 2012 → Mar 2014
      WindowsInternet ExplorerRenderingUX
      • Shipped Windows 8 and 8.1, working on the UX teams and building automated test harnesses.
      • Internet Explorer 10 and legacy rendering teams - supported IE 7, 8, 9 through Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1.
      • Drove IE from single-threaded to multithreaded with 100% backward compatibility.

    Public work

    Projects
    Microsoft Edge - Multithreaded Rendering Windows 8 & 8.1 Experience Engineering

  5. Era 02

    Simulation and prediction

    Early work on long-running electrical-grid simulations and predictive systems.

    2011 → 2012

    What changed

    Learned to make complex computation useful to people making decisions about real-world systems.

    Role history

    1. Alstom Grid Software Development Engineer

      Feb 2011 → Mar 2012
      SimulationMachine LearningInfrastructureC#C++
      • Delivered a platform for testing the electrical grid - multi-day simulations rendering views into potential grid projects.
      • Added custom AI code using historical data to predict electrical flow, self-correcting - a glimpse of what would become machine learning.

    Public work

    Projects
    3D Engine & 2D Rasterization Study Electrical Grid Simulation & Prediction
    Writing
    3D Engine and 2D Rasterization Study