// skills & expertise
40+ years building, breaking, and rebuilding machines — from discrete logic gates to large language models.
LLM & Agentic AI
Engineering with large language models — from API integration through fully autonomous multi-agent pipelines.
LLM Engineering
System prompting, tool use, RAG pipelines, context window management, multi-turn conversation design. Daily driver: Claude Sonnet/Opus via API and Claude Code.
Agentic Systems
Multi-agent orchestration, autonomous code generation and execution, Claude Code in YOLO mode, agent memory, CLI integration for compile-debug-deploy loops.
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Building and consuming MCP servers to connect LLMs to live data sources, databases, APIs, and local tools.
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Classical ML through modern transformer architectures — built, trained, and deployed at production scale.
Deep Learning
Transformer architectures, CNNs, RNNs/LSTMs, attention mechanisms, fine-tuning, LoRA/QLoRA PEFT. Built and trained models from scratch before it was cool.
Classical ML & Statistics
Feature engineering, ensemble methods, Bayesian inference, time-series analysis. The fundamentals still matter when the data is small or interpretability is required.
Natural Language Processing
Clinical NLP, named entity recognition, information extraction from medical texts, text classification, embedding-based search.
Medical AI
The intersection of clinical medicine and machine intelligence — where domain knowledge is the competitive moat.
Clinical Decision Support
ML models for diagnostic assistance, risk stratification, and outcome prediction. Built systems that operate in low-resource clinical settings.
Medical Data Engineering
EHR/EMR pipeline development, DICOM image processing, anonymisation, and dataset curation for downstream ML.
Engineering & Systems
Hardware, firmware, embedded systems — the physical layer that makes software real.
Electronics & Embedded Systems
From discrete logic gates (1975) to modern MCUs. Arduino, ESP32/ESP-IDF, Raspberry Pi, IoT sensor networks, HAM radio (NE4AL), LoRa-based disaster comms (DiMSAR Kenya).
Python & Software Engineering
Primary development language for AI/ML work. Flask, FastAPI, async Python, packaging, testing. Drops to C/C++ when performance demands it.
Algorithmic Trading
ML-based trading strategies, MQL5 development, neural networks for market prediction. Achieved personal financial independence via systematic trading.
Blockchain & Web3
Bitcoin since genesis (2009). Solidity smart contract development, Ethereum ecosystem, Cardano. Deep understanding of cryptographic primitives.