🤖 Certified AI Engineer · 🏆 4× Kaggle Expert · 💬 Speaker · Open Source Advocate · Software Craftsperson · ☕ Java Champion
Lead software, data & ML engineer, mentor, and community builder — building in public, shipping production-grade systems, and making AI accessible through open source, benchmarks, and workshops.
- 🛡️ Security Champion — builder of Tripwire (hosted dashboard), sandboxed MCP/AI skills security scanning
- 🤖 AI/ML Ambassador — Kaggle Expert · KaggleX BIPOC Mentor · Certified AI Engineer · Live demos on GitHub Pages
Interactive pages on neomatrix369.github.io — no clone required.
| Demo | Link |
|---|---|
| All projects & demos | Home · Projects hub |
| Doc extract playground (111 runs, 21 snapshots) | Archive · Write-up |
| Doubleword extraction guide | Video walkthrough |
| Tripwire dashboard | Live demo |
| py-bug-trace sweep (Poolside Laguna) | Explorer · Reports |
| Claude Code concept map | Interactive map |
| Project | What it does | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| tripwire | Sandboxed security scanning for AI skills and MCP servers — heatmap dashboard, fail-closed agent guard. Hosted dashboard → | Python · TypeScript |
| playgroup_202602_docextract | LLM document-extraction benchmark — 111 scored runs across OpenRouter, Doubleword, V7 Go. Hosted playground → | Python · HTML |
| rag-params-finder | RAG parameter sweep — embeddings × chunking × retrieval before you build. SIE ecosystem → | 12 ⭐ · 4 forks |
| sie | Superlinked Inference Engine — open-source inference cluster for agent workloads | Python |
| HuggingFace Datasets | 16 evaluation datasets · Laguna hackathon contributions | Active |
| awesome-ai-ml-dl | Curated AI/ML/DL study notes and resources | 1.7k+ ⭐ |
More flagship & learning projects ↓
| Project | What it does | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| pre-rag-explorer-dashboard | Pre-RAG prototype — parsing, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search in-browser | 6 ⭐ · 3 forks |
| AIE7-Demo-Day-Project (RagCheck) | Proactive RAG corpus quality assessment before deployment | 12 ⭐ |
| microgpt-experiments | Stdlib-only character GPT — head ablation, benchmarking framework | Python · stdlib |
| nanoGPT_playgroup_202602 | nanoGPT lab — scaling laws, transformer sizing, systematic benchmarking | 236 commits |
| nlp_profiler | pandas.describe() for text — 30+ NLP features from a DataFrame |
244 ⭐ |
Earlier open source & research ↓
| Project | What it does | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| awesome-graal | GraalVM, Truffle, and polyglot JVM resource hub | 369 ⭐ |
| refactoring-developer-habits | Community TDD manifesto — SoCraTes UK 2013 | 141 ⭐ |
| learning-path-index | Structured learning path index — data and assets | 18 ⭐ |
| RESTAPIUnifier | Unified interface across REST API formats | 8 ⭐ · Java |
| better-nlp | Accessible NLP library | Open source |
| Kaggle: Normalising a distribution | Research kernel — statistical theory and practice | Peer reviewed |
| Kaggle: Limitations of stats measurements | Boundaries of statistical measurement | Peer reviewed |
Contributed to Adopt OpenJDK and GraalVM until ~2020/21 — lives on in awesome-graal.
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🤖 Certified AI Engineer AI Makerspace |
🎯 4× Kaggle Expert Competitions · Notebooks · Datasets |
🏅 Oracle Groundbreaker 2019 |
🏺 Software Craftsperson 2016 |
☕ Java Champion 2018 |
Competition record ↓
| Result | Competition | Proof |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 Top 12% | Liverpool Ion Switching | tweet ↗ |
| 🏆 Team Champion | London Kaggle ML Challenger Day | tweet ↗ |
| 🥇 Top 6 of 50+ | 2019 Kaggle Utility Script Competition | tweet ↗ |
| 🥈 5th of 2,255 | SoftBank Forex Algorithm Competition 2019/20 | tweet ↗ |
| 🏅 Consolation Prize | Pivigo Data Science Hackathon | tweet ↗ |
Mentoring & community impact ↓
Mentored across KaggleX BIPOC cohorts (2022–2025) and AIMakerspace Engineering bootcamp.
I've mentored participants across multiple KaggleX BIPOC Mentorship cohorts (2022–2025), starting with December 2022 – March 2023. Outcomes and feedback are on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Also a peer supporter for AIMakerspace Engineering bootcamp and onramp courses.
About me — full story ↓
25+ years working with founders, CTOs, and research & engineering teams to craft software that stands the test of time.
As a polyglot software developer, I'm all about strengthening teams and helping them accelerate. You'll find me working shoulder-to-shoulder with founders, CTOs, and brilliant research teams.
TDD, BDD, and software craftsmanship — from legacy revival to test-driving fresh features and DevOps.
Building tools for AI/ML research teams, data engineering, experiments, and turning raw numbers into insight.
AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, and RAG — smarter pipelines, benchmarking retrieval strategies, squeezing quality from results.
Data Analytics with R, D3 visualisations, Java Concurrency, Graal/GraalVM/Truffle — lives on in awesome-graal and Kaggle kernels.
AI/ML · RAG/LLMs · Python · TDD · Open Source
Full tech stack ↓
Languages Python · Java · R · Scala
LLMs & RAG OpenAI · Hugging Face · RAG pipelines · vector embeddings
chunking · hybrid search · MCP · microgpt / nanoGPT
AI / ML TensorFlow · PyTorch · Jupyter · Kaggle
Backend FastAPI · REST API design · Java services
JVM / Legacy GraalVM · Truffle · Adopt OpenJDK · Java Concurrency
Data R · D3.js · data engineering · document parsing
DevOps Docker · CI/CD · Linux
Practices TDD · BDD · Software Craftsmanship · Code Review
"Don't chase success, rather aim for Excellence, and success will come chasing after you!"
Find me online ↓
Twitter · Mastodon · LinkedIn · Medium · Kaggle · HuggingFace · GitHub · SlideShare · Blog · YouTube