Experience
2019 — Now
2019 — Now
Manage, develop, & ensure success of short-term freelance software projects. Uses subcontractors for development. Web and mobile Flutter apps across all industries.
• BestInform — European information platform for structured data, reports, and analytics. Pixel-perfect Figma implementation; real-time support messaging. Angular 14, PrimeNG, Angular Material, Firebase. bestinform.eu
• Guard App — Security service platform connecting guards, companies, and customers. Admin portal and mobile apps for patrol management, incident reporting, NFC verification. Flutter, Angular, Firebase, Java SpringBoot.
• Drivemond — Taxi and ride-hailing platform for Chicago. Passenger and driver mobile apps with real-time matching and GPS tracking. Flutter, AWS.
• Galler AI — AI-powered image generation and editing platform in the browser. React frontend with Figma design system; cropping, clipping, drawing tools. React, TypeScript.
• SafeSchoolz (Aegis Platform) — AI safety platform detecting firearms and alerting authorities. Built gun detection model (~85% mAP). Android, .NET, Python/Jupyter, Twilio.
• IIPM — Membership and certification platform for Irish pension specialists. Member and admin portals. WordPress, PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, Stripe.
2002 — Now
2002 — Now
corky — Git-Based Correspondence Toolkit (Rust) github.com/btakita/corky
• Built a git-native correspondence system that syncs topics, contacts, and threads from email (IMAP), Telegram, and Slack into scoped markdown mailboxes, with per-topic and per-contact agent context that syncs across collaborators via 3-way merge
• Designed multi-scope mailbox architecture where each collaborator receives only relevant threads and context, with bidirectional sync using content hashing (FNV-1a) and git-based conflict resolution for offline-first collaboration
• Implemented crash-safe incremental IMAP sync with streaming merge, bulk import for Slack and Telegram archives, and label-based routing rules that fan out threads to multiple mailboxes
• Dog-fooding daily for personal and professional correspondence across Gmail and Protonmail accounts
agent-doc — Git-Native Document Sessions with AI Agents (Rust) github.com/btakita/agent-doc
• Created a document-as-interface model for persistent AI conversations: edit a markdown file offline, submit diffs, agent responds inline — all tracked through git commits for full session history and branch-based workflows• Engineered write-safe concurrent editing via 3-way merge (snapshot + user edits + agent response), preventing data loss when human and agent edit simultaneously
• Built agent-agnostic core with pluggable LLM backends, automatic pre- commit of user changes, and snapshot-based diffing so only changed content is sent to the agent
• Dog-fooding as the primary interface for planning and iterating on both corky and agent-doc development
2024 — 2026
Remote
• Architected and shipped the entire real-time video pipeline: facial landmark detection, LatentSync lip-sync inference (VAE decode, denoising, restoration), idle video generation, and frame sequencing on NVIDIA H100 GPUs via LiveKit
• Architected a multi-service AI monorepo with closed-loop agentic workflows and self-auditing development infrastructure (Claude Code / Codex)
• Developed an iterative agentic development methodology: lightweight living specs refined through closed-loop agent auditing and continuous human-in-the-loop feedback, accelerating design velocity while staying in flow with the emerging design
• Built reusable async primitives for high-quality agent-authored code and human comprehension: task lifecycle management, scoped cancellation, lazily resolved dependencies that decouple initialization order and cascade invalidation through the context, runtime profile logging, and stable cross-stack naming to maintain conceptual coherence for both human and agent reasoning
• Improved lip-sync quality through landmark temporal smoothing, LatentSync model upgrades, and optimized Whisper audio feature extraction via improved audio stream batching
2016 — 2023
2016 — 2023
Greater New York City Area, Remote
Develop web solutions for Financial Services, centered around a Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) lens. These tools help investors align their investments with their values & to manage exposure to ESG topics.
https://censible.co/
https://esg.censible.co
https://esg.censible.co/rebalance
2018 — 2018
2018 — 2018
Remote
* Product Development on the Studio team
* Convert legacy Backbone FrontEnd to Svelte & React
* ES5 to ES6/ES2017 migration
* Create best-practices for Front End component development
Education
University of the Pacific