I’m an AI and product engineer building systems that work with private knowledge and support real workflows. I’ve taught people how to use AI, from a Boot.dev RAG course to live courses on AI-assisted development. I’ve also helped teams improve AI products, tools, and workflows from AnkiHub (collaborative learning tools) and SpecStory (agentic software) to enterprise companies like Travel + Leisure and General Mills. These days, I focus on context-first AI systems. In practice, that means helping teams inside a community I created see and improve the parts of the system that decide what the system can use: retrieval, memory, tool use, evals, traces, harnesses, and the product interface around them. I help teams find where the process bottlenecks are, whether the problem is search, agent behavior, workflow design, or the human interface, and then fix that layer.