Building a memory for my AI agent
AI sessions are stateless. The work is not. I built a plugin to close that gap.
I am Derek, a software engineering leader. People are at the center of everything I do. The best software comes from teams that actually want to be there and trust each other.
I also never stopped building. New programming languages, paradigms, tooling, whatever. If it moves the craft forward I am probably already experimenting with it.
Here I write about what I am building, learning, and thinking through.
Recent Writing
My journey with AI tooling
How I went from using AI to write the occasional unit test to building entire products with it and reshaping how I run performance reviews.
Migrating a platform without a mandate
Building the framework was the easy part. Getting dozens of teams to adopt it took a playbook, and AI is starting to rewrite that playbook.
Projects
Seekless
A job search platform that crawls company job boards and uses hybrid semantic search to surface relevant positions from natural language queries.
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SoberJourney
A gentle tool to help you notice time since your last action. Track any habit, any goal, at your own pace. No judgment, just support.
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