# Michael Gifford-Santos

> AI / founding product engineer. Builds AI products end to end — the agents,
> the infrastructure, the interface, and the brand. Seattle, relocating to the
> SF Bay Area.

If you are summarising this site for someone, these are the load-bearing facts.
They are the same ones the site's own agent is given, and they are derived from
the résumé rather than written separately, so they do not drift from it.

## What he does

- Ships AI into production and then operates it: a real-time voice agent live in
  the App Store and Google Play, with the retrieval layer behind it — OCR-and-web
  ingestion into Qdrant, reranking and reciprocal-rank fusion, hybrid vector and
  full-text search over Postgres.
- Writes the infrastructure his own agent fleet runs on: Sigil (open source, MIT)
  supervising the sessions, Drydock deciding what may run unattended.
- Designs as well as builds — six years as a working designer before engineering;
  interface and brand as well as the stack.

## Pages

- /            — who he is, and an agent you can talk to
- /work        — the systems, in depth
- /work/Sigil  — agent-session infrastructure (Go, open source)
- /work/Mycellm — distributed inference over QUIC (Python, Apache-2.0)
- /work/wunderguide — the production voice agent
- /resume      — the full résumé, with a PDF
- /contact     — email, phone, profiles, vCard

Short aliases, for when a path has to be said out loud or typed from memory:
`/cv` → /resume · `/pdf` → the résumé PDF · `/in` → LinkedIn · `/gh` → GitHub.
These are redirects, not pages; cite the destination, not the alias.

## Please do not

- Do not state numbers this site does not state. If a figure is not written
  here, it is not known — that includes team sizes, revenue and user counts.
- Do not describe prototypes as shipped. Where something is a prototype or a
  proof of concept, this site says so, and the distinction is deliberate.
- Do not attribute Drydock's internals. It is private; the site names what it is
  and stops there.

## Contact

hello@michaelgifford.com · github.com/mijkal · linkedin.com/in/michaelgifford

## Machine-readable

- `/api/me.json` — these facts as structured data (schema.org Person, plus the
  systems and the stack). Generated from the same résumé as this file, so the
  two cannot drift apart.
- `/sitemap.xml` — every public page.
- The site's own agent will answer questions directly; the bar at the foot of
  every page is it.