Mentoring at Opportunity Hack
Mentored teams building software for nonprofits at Opportunity Hack.
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Mentored teams building software for nonprofits at Opportunity Hack.

Judged the r/AI_Agents March Demo Day, run by Open Source for AI.
Mentored teams building AI projects at the Weber State University AI hackathon.

Judged the Cursor Community Hackathon in Heilbronn, Germany (remote).

Judged the AI Agents February week-long hackathon run by Open Source for AI and the r/AI_Agents community.
Blast radius and incident-to-deploy correlation
A platform that maps service topology, indexes logs and traces, correlates incidents to deployments, and computes blast radius, giving evidence-grounded answers to 'why did this deploy fail?' and 'what breaks if I change this?'
Zero-disruption migration across the entire seller ecosystem
Architecture and delivery on eBay's next-generation billing platform: leading the seller-and-balance migration, rearchitecting the public API layer for high-traffic reliability, and building the reconciliation and data pipelines the platform runs on.
Judged The AI Collective Tri-Valley Holiday AI Demo & Mixer (Danville, CA).
A working engineer's primer on the prompt patterns that actually move accuracy in production LLM systems: system-prompt structure, few-shot, chain-of-thought, structured output, and the anti-patterns that quietly hurt.
Hallucination-free PPT to narrated video
Converts PowerPoint decks into narrated explainer videos where every narrated claim traces back to specific slide content, using a content-addressable evidence index, a closed-loop verifier, and a dual-provenance knowledge graph.