A machine-learning engineer and engineering leader with 12+ years building large-scale ML, data, and infrastructure systems. Was Principal Machine Learning Engineer at a computer-vision startup in identity verification — acquired by a top-five technology company — and has since led engineering at one of the world's largest tech companies. Named inventor on multiple machine-learning patents.
Kumuao is the project that wouldn't let go — because the customer is the founder's own kids. The conviction is simple: children are already talking to AI every day, and nobody is measuring what it says back. That's a problem worth a career.
The whole of Kumuao so far — the open benchmark, the parent counsellor, this site, and the full payment and email stack — was built in about six weeks, one founder co-engineering with Claude. One person now ships what took a five-person seed team in 2022. That velocity is the early advantage.