AI-native generalist. Staff Engineer at Google. I ship tools that solve my own problems β then open-source them. Currently obsessed with context engineering for AI agents and building apps entirely through vibe-coding.
π§ CastForge
Framework for source β podcast automation. Show repos keep their own cron, runner, RSS, and public URLs; CastForge supplies the pipeline stages and integrations. Install from git, wire hooks, copy the example workflow. First production user: Nitan Podcast.
π CouponCycle
Full-stack credit card benefits tracker with 30k+ active users. Track welcome bonuses, annual fee deadlines, and reward optimizations β all local-first, no spreadsheets. Real people use this daily to never miss a signup bonus or downgrade window again.
π§ Context Harness
AI agents forget everything between sessions. I built a filesystem-based context manager that gives coding agents persistent memory β decisions, plans, discoveries all survive across long-running sessions. Used across all my projects.
βοΈ FreshPowder
Skiing is stupidly expensive. This scrapes and aggregates every lift ticket deal, flash sale, and discount pass so you never pay full price for a powder day. Auto-updated every 6 hours.
ποΈ Nitan Podcast
Weekly AI-generated podcast that distills the best threads from the largest Chinese-American credit card forum. Built on CastForge: Nitan MCP β NotebookLM β podcast, fully automated.
β‘ Agent Nexus
Centralized skill and MCP server manager for AI coding agents. One config to rule all your IDE agent setups β Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, whatever comes next.
| Project | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| VibeCoder | Opinionated framework for shipping full apps through AI pair-programming | π¬ Research |
| DealPilot | AI agent that monitors and auto-applies the best deals across all your subscriptions | π‘ Ideation |
| ContextBench | Benchmarks for measuring how well AI agents retain and use long-term context | π Design |
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