00:00About · Boulder, Colorado
Hi, I'm Antonin.
Staff Engineer building AI-backed systems, engineering standards, and the workflows that let teams ship serious software.
Staff engineer focused on the infrastructure production LLM systems run on: evaluation harnesses, multi-provider dispatch, rate-limit handling, and guardrails on model output. Twenty years of building software, most of it lately in domains where a confidently wrong answer is worse than no answer.
20+Years building
2012Blogging since
600+GitHub stars
KF 01Principles
See the proverbs project
Five proverbs I keep
Each one lights up as it crosses the middle of the screen.
A deployed MVP is worth two prototyped.
Dance like nobody is watching, code like everybody is.
Today's fashion is tomorrow's legacy.
Debugging becomes easier if you first admit that you are the problem.
The best code is no code at all.
KF 02Beyond Code
The rest of the operating system
- Photography
- I shoot animals, landscapes, people, and street scenes. The camera is how I stay observant.
- Fiction
- I write AI-themed fiction and short stories when technical writing is not enough.
- Podcasts & Games
- I have opinions about Final Fantasy, narrative design, and the overlap between games and technology.
KF 03Capabilities
What I work with now
The stack changes. The throughline doesn't. I'm usually working where backend systems, product delivery, and AI workflows collide.
AI & LLM Systems
Measuring model output, routing it across providers, and trusting none of it by default.
- LLM Evaluation & Judge Grading
- Multi-Provider LLM Dispatch
- Token Budgeting & Rate-Limit Engineering
- Structured Output & Guardrails
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Agent Tooling & Orchestration
Languages
Python on the backend, TypeScript for everything else, SQL wherever the data lives.
- Python
- TypeScript
- SQL
Platforms & Tools
Async services on Kubernetes, databases picked per job, front ends in React or Svelte.
- FastAPI
- Redis
- Postgres
- SQLite
- Kubernetes on Azure
- React & Next.js
- SvelteKit
Leadership
Setting technical direction and standards, then reviewing what ships against them.
- Technical Strategy
- Engineering Standards
- Cross-Team Delivery
- Code Review
- Mentoring
KF 04Proof
All projects
Selected work
Skillbox
SkillboxAgent Compiler
Agent CompilerUsing Git Worktrees to Parallelize AI Agents
Using Git Worktrees to Parallelize AI Agents17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two Months
17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two MonthsProgrammer's Proverbs
Programmer's ProverbsI help teams implement AI-enabled product work, sharpen engineering practices, and build systems that survive real usage.
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