A CAREER
OF
BUILDING
From computer engineer to global operations to founding companies. My career has been focused on technology and growing both personally and professionally.
HIGHLIGHTS &
NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS
Participated for two years on a NASA Reduced Gravity Research Project. Our team designed and built a non-mechanical electromagnetic ion drive (a propulsion system with zero moving parts to propel tools in microgravity environments). At the culmination of the project, I experienced the opportunity of a lifetime by testing the project aboard NASA's KC-135 'Vomit Comet' out of Johnson Space Center, experiencing 15 minutes of zero-gravity during parabolic flight.
WHAT I DO
FOR FUN
AI & LLMs
My interests span applied AI strategy, productization, LLMOps, and agentic workflows. I enjoy keeping up-to-date on the latest AI technologies to increase efficiencies and create delightful products. I truly believe AI is a transformational technology that will change how we live and work.
BUILDING
WITH AI
Most of my free time goes into building with AI. Multi-agent systems, eval harnesses, models running on my own edge hardware, and full apps written with agentic coding tools. Here's what I've been working on lately.
Autonomous Multi-Agent Outreach System
A solution for a simple observation: researching service providers, requesting quotes, and chasing replies is tedious work nobody wants to do. So I designed a system where agents do it for you. An orchestrator plans each run and dispatches 10 specialist sub-agents, one per service category, with 11 callable tools across 5 communication channels.
The MVP runs the first category end to end. It discovers providers, scores them against a requirements brief, drafts outreach by email, SMS, and web form, parses replies with an LLM, and assembles a ranked shortlist with structured spec sheets. A companion LLM-as-judge harness scores every run on 10 quality dimensions and is calibrated against human review.
agent-team
A company staffed entirely by AI agents. Research, product, marketing, engineering, legal, finance and more, with a CEO supervisor routing work down to department supervisors and on to specialists. I'm building it three times, once each in Claude Code, CrewAI, and LangGraph, to learn how each framework handles the same problem. Agents communicate through files in a shared directory, so every run leaves a paper trail I can inspect.
Applied AI at VIP
My day job. As GM I help set the AI direction for a B2B SaaS platform in a regulated industry. I designed and prototyped AI summaries, trend detection, and insights for our reporting suite, and built four working legal AI agents in an internal hackathon: contract risk, sales negotiation, SOC 2 compliance, and vendor review. I also trained our 30 Product Owners on AI and product design.
Edge AI Lab
Inference on my own hardware, an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. Object detection, semantic segmentation, keypoint models, and small language models running fully local, like asking a security camera whether anyone left a package today. I work the whole pipeline myself: annotation, training, quantization, and deployment.
Cadence
A habit and accountability app I built mostly through Claude Code, working from a written spec. You schedule recurring blocks on a weekly calendar, it nags you until you mark how each one went, and your streaks and completion metrics build over time. Miss a block and the scheduler fails it automatically. No mercy.
Ask Josh: this site
The assistant you can talk to right on this page. Claude behind the scenes, with streaming responses, rate limiting, and chat logging. It knows my career, my projects, and my interests, and it sits alongside the neural network visualization and the object detection street scene in the Interests section. Go ask it something.
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JOSH
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