# Brian Takita > 20+ years full-stack | Architected real-time multimodal AI avatar pipeline at Presence AI | Building agent tooling & context engineering for collaborative intelligence | Reactive & event-driven systems Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/briantakita Over 20 years of software development experience developing full-stack applications. Most recently built the full real-time AI avatar pipeline at Presence AI facial landmark detection, LatentSync lip-sync inference, and frame sequencing on H100 GPUs. Now building spec-driven agent tooling and collaborative intelligence workflows in Rust. Utilizes philosophy, logic, language, & qualitative/quantitative approaches to create software models to explore & accurately represent the domain. Currently dog-fooding two open-source tools: corky (git-native correspondence toolkit) and agent-doc (persistent AI document sessions) both built through the same spec-driven agent methodology they enable. ## Work Experience ### Full Stack Web Engineer @ Brian Takita Jan 2019 – Present 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. ### Open Source @ Creator / Solo Developer Jan 2002 – Present 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 ### Lead Backend Engineer, AI Pipeline @ Presence AI Jan 2024 – Jan 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 ### Lead Product Developer @ Censible Jan 2016 – Jan 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 ### Senior Software Engineer @ SocialChorus Jan 2018 – Jan 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 ### Software Development Consultant @ Neo Innovation, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area Developed email-based research pipeline app for Financial Holdings company. Workflow involves actor (i.e. CEO or sales) emailing contacts & contextual notes, to be researched and processed by the analyst team. The app semantically matches the text to companies & contacts in Salesforce to assist the analyst team with further refinements & analysis. ### Senior Software Developer @ CrystalCommerce Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Migrate production Rails App. Front end rearchitecturing using Node.js, Browserify, Gulp, Backbone. ### Platform Architect / Lead Front End Developer @ Rundavoo Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Los Angeles Area Lead front end development for Rundavoo, a Google top 75 app in 2014. Created a responsive, multi-platform (desktop, tablet, mobile, server) application that integrated with several APIs via CORS and a proxy server. Api's include Rundavoo api, Facebook, Foursquare, Cloudsponge, Mixpanel. Technologies/Techniques used: html5, css3, node.js, browserify, jasmine, reactive programming (https://github.com/btakita/backbone-signal), cloudflare, PhoneGap ### Architect/Lead Developer @ Milyoni, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Pleasanton, CA Lead developer for Social Entertainment Platform includeing video, social marketing, gamification, real time social interaction, and interactive engagements synced with video. Build/Maintain the Social Video on Demand and Live Event platform which is used by Warner Brothers, Lions Gate, Paramount Studios, Universal Music Group, Hearst Media, Starz, Ovation TV, Astro, Focus Features, Funimation, Sundance Now. Mentor junior & mid-level developers. Proponent of flattening communication across the organization. Also pushed to give the development team greater autonomy and increased influence in product development and prioritization. Technologies include: Node.js, Backbone.js, Rails, Postgres, Redis, and Heroku ### Senior Software Engineer @ TrueCar, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Santa Monica, CA Senior member of advanced product team, which introduced new products (user service), integration with major partners (wsj.com car reviews and usaa.com car reviews), and devops (chef to automate ec2 architecture, workstations, and new datacenter servers). Rails 3 Upgrade. YUM packaging for deployment. Lead initiatives to share agile knowledge to the rest of the organization. Led initiatives to integrate services. Worked on new approaches to integrate widgets and apis to external partners, such as USAA and Wall Street Journal Autos. ### Lead Developer @ honk.com Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Honk.com was a vehicle review site and embeddable white-label platform used by USAA and Wall Street Journal Autos. It's primary investor was Fox News Corp and was acquired by Truecar. Performed full-stack web development using Ruby on Rails. Embedded vehicle review platform into partner sites (usaa.com, fox news, myspace). Lead development and partnered in product vision for social car shopping that was key to Honk being acquired. Lead team of developers using agile methodologies. * Developed Honk.com site from the beginning until present * Internal framework development * Implemented javascript client/server event framework (http://github.com/honkster/jelly) * Development process improvements (parallelized tests, efficient data import process, etc) * High Availability deployment and server setup on EC2 * Facebook Connect * Partner Authentication Integration * Chef scripts to automate server and workstation configuration * Rails, Javascript, Mysql, Redis, SASS * A/B Testing using Omniture ### Agile Engineer @ Pivotal Labs Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 Agile Development in the XP tradition. TDD, Pair Programming, Daily Standup meetings, Retrospectives, and other continual personal and process improvements. Worked with early startups to bootstrap their engineering process and team and develop an initial product. Took a leadership role in common code, practices, adoption of new technology, and open source projects. Projects include: * Honk * Maven Link * KGB.com * Grockit * KDA Research Revelation Project * Real Girls Media * heavy.com * Bringo * CommunityWalk ### Consultant @ KGB_ (formerly InfoNXX) Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 * Developed fully scripted High Availability and scalable Ruby on Rails deployment (based off of EC2 on Rails) on EC2 * Developed no-downtime deployments and migrations * Load testing and performance enhancements ### Consultant @ Grockit Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Developed initial implementations of Real-time collaborative test preparation game. This system had the following properties: * Comet (long polling) for quick game play amongst several players * Developed Evented server architecture for lower latency and higher performance * Client-side MVC framework for keeping the UI in sync with the server state While working for Grockit, I was also heavily involved with the following: * Erector (http://github.com/pivotal/erector), a Ruby Builder and Widget framework for generating HTML * Screw Unit Server, now the JS Test Server (http://github.com/pivotal/js-test-server), for more organized Javascript TDD * Unison (https://github.com/grockit/unison), relational algebra ruby library that supports events ### Consultant @ Peer to Patent Project Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Heavy Lifter in launching the Peer to Patent pilot application, which was led by the New York Law School. Peer to Patent is a tool to allow the crowd to review and submit prior art for pending patents. ### IT Analyst @ NASPP Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 * Sql Server DB Admin * Developed internal CRM with Rails, .NET & MS Access * Website ASP development * Reports for Sales Trends and forecasting * Maintain in house Sharepoint Intranet * Technical Support ### Web Application Developer Intern @ Flextronics Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 Develop corporate intranet using Microsoft technologies (ASP, Sql Server) ## Education ### BS in Engineering Physics University of the Pacific ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/briantakita - Portfolio: https://briantakita.me - GitHub: https://github.com/btakita --- Source: https://flows.cv/briantakita JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/briantakita/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-18