The Cloaked Garden

Birthday
April 27, 1999
Location

Cresskill, New Jersey, USA

About me

I build software, tools, prototypes, and technical systems that sit between AI, infrastructure, product design, automation, and physical making.

This site is my outward-facing portfolio for employers, collaborators, and clients: a place to show active projects, technical range, design thinking, and the way I approach building things from idea through implementation.

Current focus

Personal infrastructure

Local-first services, backend orchestration, networking, storage, and control surfaces for personal systems.
AI workflows

Agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop automation, prompt/system design, and conversational interfaces.
Inventory systems

A source-of-truth inventory and marketplace automation system for local items, photos, listings, and history.
Keystone Overflow

A Flutter prototype that turns emotional load, support structures, pressure, and coping patterns into an interactive factory simulation.

Portfolio notes

Now

Current work includes Keystone Overflow, AI-assisted tooling, local infrastructure, and marketplace/inventory automation.
Principle

I tend to work across the whole creation process: concept, design, architecture, software, hardware constraints, and practical iteration.
Control

The strongest projects here are not just code samples; they are attempts to make complex ideas legible, usable, and eventually shippable.
Workshop

The public site should show real work in motion without pretending every project is already a polished product.

CV

Background

Engineering and Computer Technology
NJIT, 2024
Degree background in engineering and computer technology from NJIT, graduated in 2024, with a practical focus on systems integration, networking, automation, and technical infrastructure.
AI-assisted development
Current
Building with conversational systems, AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, orchestration patterns, and practical human-in-the-loop oversight.
Self-hosted infrastructure
Ongoing
Local-first backend services, device access, storage, networking, and migration-friendly personal systems designed to start on one primary machine and grow outward.

Experience

Keystone Overflow
Working prototype / ongoing iteration
Designed and prototyped an offline-first Flutter app for mapping emotional load and support systems through an interactive visual factory metaphor, with custom assets, simulation logic, branch routing, debug tooling, save-schema planning, and extensive design documentation.
Hermes control plane
Active system
A personal website and backend ecosystem combining public identity, private admin controls, inventory, automation, and future device systems.
Multi-platform listing agent
In development
Human-approved workflows for identifying items, drafting listings, and syncing marketplace state from a local source of truth.
Conversational AI research notes
Research thread
Observations around cognition, trust formation, anthropomorphization, reinforcement dynamics, and human-AI interaction.

Skill ecology

A rough map of my current builder identity, not proficiency scores. I think of myself as a jack of engineering: someone who has worked across the design, creation, and iteration process for both software and physical things.

Product systems & engineering thinking
30%

Product architecture, drafting basics, CAD, mechanical intuition, electrical work, 3D printing, enclosure design, woodworking, and full-lifecycle product thinking.
AI, agents & software products
25%

AI-assisted development, spec coding, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop systems, APIs, backend services, local-first databases, and marketplace adapters.
Infrastructure, networking & security
20%

Networking background, self-hosted services, backend control planes, device access, medical technology coursework, and medical/security-oriented systems awareness.
Visual design & digital fabrication
15%

Graphic design, logo design, UI composition, 3D animation, visual systems, fabrication planning, and making ideas legible enough to build.
Hardware, circuits & IoT
10%

Soldering, circuit basics, chip/module selection, embedded experimentation, IoT prototypes, and connecting physical devices back into software systems.

Systems

Systems is the map of programs, toolchains, and working environments I use across software, design, fabrication, documentation, and product development.