Axl Ibiza, MBA
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Data & Research

Data Analysis

AI & Software

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Independent AI Systems Developer · Independent practice

    Independent work with AI, personal knowledge systems, memory, context, retrieval, and automation.

  • Preserving Images Through Context Compaction — PR #98544

    My fix keeps image-only user messages intact when Hermes compacts conversation history, while enforcing the retention budget and rejecting malformed content. Teknium integrated my original implementation and credited me as the earliest submitter.

AI & Software

Python

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Data science coursework and projects · DataCamp

    Sustained coursework and project work in data science and analysis.

  • Database Repair That Preserves the Original — PR #93353

    My database-repair work moves recovery attempts to an isolated SQLite snapshot and promotes it only after a health check. Failed repair preserves the original data. Teknium integrated this work alongside @fangliquanflq's session-recovery changes.

AI & Software

Large Language Models (LLM)

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Stable Conversation Identity and Warm AI Caches — PR #100137

    My reviews identified identity and lifecycle defects in declared-conversation caching, including cross-source collisions and session rebinding. JoaoMarcos44’s implementation merged with those repairs and co-author credit retained.

  • Preserving Tool Calls and Their Execution Order — PR #93433

    My review required confirmed completion before pending tool calls could execute, correct handling of empty arguments, and preserved call order. cxxCoolStar’s core repair and the merged follow-up close those gaps in streamed Responses output.

AI & Software

Software Architecture

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Managed Remote Updates — PR #95942

    My managed SSH update engine was integrated into Hermes Desktop with authorship preserved. It coordinates connection ownership, identity checks, recovery, and update receipts. Teknium adapted the main-process integration.

  • Shared Agent Rooms Across Desktops and Gateways — PR #91279

    My technical review drove the revision and compare-and-swap design behind shared Bot Group rooms. TheTom authored the core protocol; Teknium integrated it with room-lifecycle fixes so history syncs across clients, survives gateway loss and cannot revive disbanded rooms.

AI & Software

AI Agents

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Reliable Recurring Tasks in Hermes — PR #98275

    I corrected Hermes's scheduling contract: '30m' creates a recurring interval, while 'in 30m' creates a one-time task. My implementation also handles repeat values such as 'forever' without crashing. Teknium integrated the change.

AI & Software

Multi-agent Systems

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Shared Agent Rooms Across Desktops and Gateways — PR #91279

    My technical review drove the revision and compare-and-swap design behind shared Bot Group rooms. TheTom authored the core protocol; Teknium integrated it with room-lifecycle fixes so history syncs across clients, survives gateway loss and cannot revive disbanded rooms.

  • Authorization for Group Chats Across Gateways — PR #99244

    Authorization reviewer for group chats spanning multiple gateways. I verified that changed execution policy requires fresh approval, replacement grants are checked before publication, and pending work cannot silently acquire new authority. The merged implementation preserves dokterdok's authorship and Teknium's regression coverage.

AI & Software

Application Security

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Shared Credentials Across Profiles and Processes — PR #98245

    My reviews traced credential ownership across profiles, persistence, and processes. The merged work preserves JoaoMarcos44’s implementation and adds the cross-process protection and verification repairs those reviews required.

  • Keeping Credential Exports Out of Source Repositories — PR #100101

    Security review contributor to keeping credential-bearing profile exports out of source repositories and container build contexts. My blocking review led to destination-based path checks, fail-closed export routing, and safer temporary storage. Teknium's merged integration preserves JoaoMarcos44's original implementation and Kshitij's three review fixes.

AI & Software

Code Review

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Atomic Activation and Connection Safety — PR #89483

    My review surfaced inconsistent desktop activation and failed connection resolution. The merged repair makes activation atomic and rejects failed resolution. jackulau authored the preserved implementation; Teknium integrated it.

  • Codebase Simplification — PR #102117

    This merge completes the godfile-eradication work I started in Hermes Agent. Teknium completed the simplification. My review protected MCP tool schemas through extraction and preserved contributor credit and merge coordination.

AI & Software

Software Testing

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Screenshot Integrity Without Weakening Redaction — PR #97078

    My boundary reviews helped turn a screenshot repair into a precise rule: preserve protocol-defined image bytes while continuing to redact sensitive text. liuhao1024’s three commits merged with the requested coverage across binary carriers.

  • Restoring CI Without Changing Release Policy — PR #100752

    Review contributor to restoring CI workflow dispatch without changing release policy. I caught a repair that also re-enabled a deliberately disabled desktop test lane, requested a focused correction, and verified the replacement restored the full job graph while preserving the intended test policy. Teknium authored the fix.

AI & Software

Git

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Managed Remote Updates — PR #95942

    My managed SSH update engine was integrated into Hermes Desktop with authorship preserved. It coordinates connection ownership, identity checks, recovery, and update receipts. Teknium adapted the main-process integration.

AI & Software

GitHub

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Codebase Simplification — PR #102117

    This merge completes the godfile-eradication work I started in Hermes Agent. Teknium completed the simplification. My review protected MCP tool schemas through extraction and preserved contributor credit and merge coordination.

AI & Software

Software Development

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Independent AI Systems Developer · Independent practice

    Independent work with AI, personal knowledge systems, memory, context, retrieval, and automation.

  • Managed Remote Updates — PR #95942

    My managed SSH update engine was integrated into Hermes Desktop with authorship preserved. It coordinates connection ownership, identity checks, recovery, and update receipts. Teknium adapted the main-process integration.

  • Database Repair That Preserves the Original — PR #93353

    My database-repair work moves recovery attempts to an isolated SQLite snapshot and promotes it only after a health check. Failed repair preserves the original data. Teknium integrated this work alongside @fangliquanflq's session-recovery changes.

Business & Operations

Microsoft Excel

Business & Operations

Data Management

  • Transfer and Re-entry Admissions Assistant (Office of Undergraduate Admissions) · University of Wisconsin

    Supported the transition to paperless application processing. • Entered and reviewed transfer and reentry applications, working with professional staff through seasonal admissions processes. • Trained professional and student staff in data handling and application processing.

  • Regional Account Manager · Rishi Tea

    Managed wholesale account relationships across 31 states, handling customer communications and orders. • Maintained Oasis CRM records and identified sales opportunities for regional directors. • Used Excel pivot tables for strategic sales analysis. • Coordinated with operations and provided CRM user feedback to IT.

AI & Software

Cloud Computing

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • Managed Remote Updates — PR #95942

    My managed SSH update engine was integrated into Hermes Desktop with authorship preserved. It coordinates connection ownership, identity checks, recovery, and update receipts. Teknium adapted the main-process integration.

Business & Operations

Data-driven Decision Making

Business & Operations

Financial Analysis

Data & Research

Historical Research

Writing & Ideas

Technical Writing

  • Nous Research contributor · Nous Research

    I’m a Nous Research contributor working on Hermes Agent. My contribution is currently unpaid; I am not a maintainer. The public record through 2026-10-29T10:10:43Z captures 510 PRs and 470 issues I authored, plus 2,698 submitted formal reviews across 1,314 distinct PRs. These overlapping forms of participation include architecture, implementation, diagnosis, and review; record counts are not a count of merged features or defects prevented. My recorded Hermes activity began July 7, 2026. July was a partial month with 3 authored PRs and 1 formal review; August recorded 438 authored PRs and 972 formal reviews; September recorded 59 authored PRs and 1,135 formal reviews; October 1–29 is a partial month with 10 authored PRs and 590 formal reviews at the same cutoff. The mix shifted from intensive authoring toward architecture-grounded review. Formal reviews are submissions, not a count of unique defects or pre-merge fixes. My expertise is adversarially verified transformation. My most substantial ongoing codebase contribution is an architecture-grounded model for reviewing other contributors’ code, including maintainer PRs: trace ownership, authority, state, failure paths and consumers; identify the exact reviewed version; reproduce the defect; and require real-path correction receipts. Root-cause analysis and subsystem analysis investigate the system beyond a proposed diff and are distinct parts of my work. Specific public reviews led to fixes before merge, while other cases led to post-merge repairs or rollback. Contributors retain implementation credit and maintainers retain merge authority.

  • All Gods Must Die: Adversarially Verified Transformation

    My architecture for transformations that preserve what matters: model the system, separate production from adjudication, keep debt visible, and preserve contributor credit.

Business & Operations

Process Optimization

Business & Operations

Leadership

Business & Operations

Staff Development

Data & Research

Public Speaking

Business & Operations

Customer Service

  • Customer Service Operations Specialist · Holden QiGong

    Implemented Zendesk Talk and launched live phone support for Holden QiGong, serving as the sole phone support representative.

  • Regional Account Manager · Rishi Tea

    Managed wholesale account relationships across 31 states, handling customer communications and orders. • Maintained Oasis CRM records and identified sales opportunities for regional directors. • Used Excel pivot tables for strategic sales analysis. • Coordinated with operations and provided CRM user feedback to IT.

  • Cafe Specialist · Barriques Wine Cave

    Created a spirits-by-the-glass menu to educate staff and customers and support inventory turnover. Handled register and food service, built customer relationships, and developed product knowledge across tea, coffee, wine, and spirits.

Business & Operations

Workflow Management

Food & Hospitality

Pastry and laminated dough

Food & Hospitality

Menu development

Business & Operations

Purchasing and inventory

  • Pastry Chef · Food Fight Restaurant Group

    Created and executed the pastry menu for Aldo's Cafe, Steenbock's on Orchard, and Steenbock's Catering.

  • Salad Prep · Ian's Pizza

    Prepared the salad bar and pizza toppings during early-morning shifts. Ordered produce daily, accounting for seasonal availability at the Dane County Farmers’ Market, cost, and waste.

  • Cafe Staff/Kitchen Specialist · Barriques

    Handled customer service, register operations, food preparation, and cleaning before moving into the kitchen specialist role. • Ordered bakery and savory items from the central commissary, tracking inventory, sales, and waste. • Trained new staff.

Business & Operations

Customer relationships

  • Regional Account Manager · Rishi Tea

    Managed wholesale account relationships across 31 states, handling customer communications and orders. • Maintained Oasis CRM records and identified sales opportunities for regional directors. • Used Excel pivot tables for strategic sales analysis. • Coordinated with operations and provided CRM user feedback to IT.

  • Cafe Specialist · Barriques Wine Cave

    Created a spirits-by-the-glass menu to educate staff and customers and support inventory turnover. Handled register and food service, built customer relationships, and developed product knowledge across tea, coffee, wine, and spirits.

Data & Research

Teaching and mentoring