Production AI · Infrastructure · Applied data
Notes, experiments, and tools on production agents, reliable infrastructure, and applied AI—documented with the evidence, constraints, and failures intact.
Folio I / Systems that survive contact
Aphrodite is a record of the difficult middle between an AI demo and a system someone can trust: architecture, evidence, operational constraints, and the failures that made the final design legible.
Selected writing
Three starting points selected for evidence and practical depth—not because an algorithm declared them fresh.
After building with LangGraph and Google ADK, I prefer ADK’s developer experience—but many core services assume Vertex AI. This WIP starter pack is my attempt to make ADK feel ‘first-class’ on non-GCP infrastructure.
This blog post details the architectural decisions and philosophies behind building a robust backend system for a retention and growth platform startup, focusing on FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and a modular design.
A comprehensive performance comparison between Pandas, Polars, and DuckDB using a large flight delay dataset. Discover which library reigns supreme for data analytics.
Selected projects
The problem, constraints, architecture, trade-offs, and evidence behind systems built far enough to become honest.
01 · Flagship system
Blacki is a self-hosted personal assistant built on Google ADK, packaged to run on a small VPS without handing the whole experience to a cloud platform.
A natural-language request became a working yt-dlp and ffmpeg media pipeline on infrastructure I control.
Persistent sessions, hardened deployment, multi-architecture images, and useful traces in one portable foundation.
Evidence-backed assumptions, workbook audit trails, and independent recalculation checks instead of a black-box number.
Documentation extraction, local Kokoro speech, caching, and keyboard controls packaged as an installable CLI.
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