Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder. Twenty years across cloud, data, and machine learning. Currently consulting on LLM systems, prediction markets, and workflow automation. Based in Palm Beach, Florida.
Recent work and active research.
Working with local-first models (Ollama, llama.cpp), retrieval over personal knowledge bases, and small-but-good models you can run for under $100. Tracking projects from Karpathy and the local-AI community: nanochat, LLM-wiki-local, context-engineering, locomo memory benchmarks.
Building tooling around the Kalshi prediction-market API: data pipelines, MCP servers, arbitrage detection, AI-assisted trading strategies. Markets-as-information-systems is where calibrated probability meets real money.
n8n for stitching APIs, models, and side-effects into reliable pipelines. Process monitoring (monit), container orchestration, and the operational glue that keeps experiments from rotting between runs.
Recently completed credentials, in descending order of technical depth.
Twenty years of shipping software and helping companies modernize their stack.
Senior Software Engineer at PCI; previously Application Development Manager at The Weiss Group, Senior Web Developer at Stericycle, Software Developer / Open Source Evangelist at U-WEB 2.0, and the first Software Developer + Web Architect at RX Automation.
16 years on GitHub (since 2009). Public footprint spans WordPress (35 repos — wpackagist, hybrid-core, theme tooling), data & SDK work (~46), prediction-market and quantitative tooling (~17), infrastructure and monitoring (~12).
Former Advisor to the Prime-Minister of Romania (2020–). President, National Committee of Romanian-American Republicans — bridging the Romanian diaspora into US civic life.
Originally from Vâlcea county, Romania. Twenty years in the United States, currently in Palm Beach, Florida. Two countries, one career arc.