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Product BuildingApril 7, 20266 min read

How I Built Netflix & What Now: An AI TV Companion

Point your phone at the TV and ask anything. How I built an AI companion that identifies shows from camera captures and answers contextual questions — using Gemini vision, TMDB, and voice input.

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Product BuildingMarch 20, 20269 min read

How I Built ArguLens: AI-Powered Legal Document Analysis

The story behind ArguLens — from a friend's divorce paperwork to an AI product that finds contradictions, reconstructs timelines, and grounds every claim in source documents.

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Product BuildingFebruary 15, 20268 min read

How I Built TalentGrep: Finding Engineers by What They've Actually Built

TalentGrep analyzes GitHub profiles to surface real skill profiles — moving past resume keywords to what engineers have actually shipped.

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LLMs & Agentic AIDecember 15, 20258 min read

Real-Time Sales Compliance Monitoring with Claude and AWS Bedrock

How we built an AI system that monitors 150K+ live sales calls per month, catching compliance violations that keyword-based systems miss entirely.

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Causal MLOctober 22, 202510 min read

Beyond Correlation: Using Causal Inference to Actually Reduce Churn

How we moved past "who will churn" to "what will prevent churn" — using causal graphs, propensity matching, and targeted A/B tests to drive a 160 basis point reduction worth $1M annually.

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CareerAugust 10, 20256 min read

From DSP Hardware to Data Science: Why the Winding Road Was the Point

EEG signal processing, swarm robotics, medical imaging, then data science. Every detour added a tool I use daily — and non-linear careers produce the best engineers.

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Machine LearningJune 18, 20257 min read

How CatBoost Sales Propensity Routing Drove $15M in Value

Building a real-time propensity model that matches incoming customers to the right sales agent — a 12% conversion lift that changed how our entire call center operates.

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Computer VisionApril 5, 20256 min read

Boosting Photo App Retention with Face Detection and Clustering

Using DSFD, InsightFace, and DBSCAN to surface the photos people actually care about — and how it moved 30-day retention by up to 150 basis points.

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