I'm an infrastructure engineer at Chert, in Y Combinator's P26 batch. Chert builds AI that people can text, call and FaceTime, and I work on the infrastructure that keeps those lines running. Before that I spent two and a half years on the integrations team at Fyle.
- Infrastructure · the systems that keep AI agents reachable over iMessage, SMS and FaceTime
- AI tooling and harness engineering · agent harnesses, context engineering, semantic layers and Claude Code plugins
- Backend · four years of Django, FastAPI and PostgreSQL
- Security-minded engineering · decide first what a system may never do, then enforce it in code: a read-only database role for an agent, a signature check on every inbound webhook
- Languages · Python, TypeScript and Rust, plus Swift and C++
curl_reap · Python scraping with a browser-exact Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake, self-healing selectors and a concurrent crawler. Docs · Source
trove · Repository index and session memory for coding agents, kept as plain files. Docs · Source
querion · A read-only analyst: ask a Postgres database in plain English, get the number, a table and the Structured Query Language (SQL) it ran. Docs · Source
From Velofy: Troy, a Chromium browser your agent joins already signed in · terbium, documents into rows · glep, indexed search for coding agents · Kestrel, Numera and Whiteboard. Latest from the lab: Zero-days found by AI.
- facebook/pyrefly #4754 · variance inference skips
__new__, as it already did__init__ - svix/svix-webhooks #2604, #2605, #2607 · Ruby library fixes for typed query parameters, symbol-keyed enums and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) generator state
- robocurve/inspect-robots #335 · the
capxplugin passes-P effort=through exactly as typed - nodemaven/nodemaven-python #8 · a quickstart install line that works in zsh
- Why your scraper gets a 403 and your browser does not
- Parse first, escalate only what you must
- Building Querion: a read-only, natural-language data analyst
- Trove: giving Claude Code a persistent memory
- Verifying inbound webhooks with HMAC signatures
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