AI / founding product engineer
I build AI products end to end — the agents, the infrastructure, the interface, and the brand.
Seattle — relocating to the SF Bay Area
Voice-first AI concierge, live in both app stores, launched Hawaiʻi-first. LiveKit agent, Qdrant retrieval with reranking, hybrid search over Postgres.
Co-founder / CTO · Python · LiveKit · React Native See it →
Supervises long-running agent sessions across hosts — observable, interruptible, attachable from anywhere, restoring after a crash.
Design + engineering · Go · open source (MIT) See it →
Pool the machines you already own behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint — a QUIC overlay routes each request to whichever node can serve it.
Brand + protocol · open source (Apache-2.0) See it →All work, including Drydock, GentlePrep, Span and E Pluribus →
Startup instinct, design and production engineering — three things that rarely sit in one person. Engineer #8 at one company, first hire at the next, co-founder at the last. I set the brand and the interface, build the systems underneath, and operate them after launch: nothing is lost translating between how it looks, how it works, and who gets paged when it breaks. Speed comes from orchestrating AI agents that build, test and validate, recursively. The stack is whatever the problem needs.
Product design · Brand identity · UI/UX · Full-stack & mobile · Voice interfaces · Distributed systems · AI-orchestrated development
Fire, agriculture, the industrial revolution — the short list of things that changed what it costs to be human. AI belongs on it, and unlike the others it is arriving in years, not centuries. What it makes possible is the Star Trek premise: abundance, and the end of work nobody should have had to do. We get to build that, now, while it is still being invented. I have never been more excited to be an engineer.
If you are building something in this space, I would like to hear about it — roles, contract work, or an argument about how any of this should be done. Get in touch →
Transcript
An agent I built. It answers from my résumé and the pages of this site — nothing else — and says so when it does not know.
It can also open and scroll to whatever it is describing, so the answer and the evidence arrive together.
Type a question, or press the mic and talk to it.
Michael Gifford-Santos