About · 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.
Principles
Things I keep coming back to
- 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.
Beyond 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. Read I, AI.
- Podcasts & Games
- I have opinions about Final Fantasy, narrative design, and the overlap between games and technology.
Capabilities
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.
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
Python on the backend, TypeScript for everything else, SQL wherever the data lives.
- Python
- TypeScript
- SQL
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
Setting technical direction and standards, then reviewing what ships against them.
- Technical Strategy
- Engineering Standards
- Cross-Team Delivery
- Code Review
- Mentoring
Selected work
Proof, not adjectives
- cc-dashTypeScript · Model Context ProtocolProject
- SkillboxClaude Code · Agent toolingProject
- Agent CompilerCLI that embeds agent skills into CLAUDE.md and fails CI when the embedded content drifts.Project
- Using Git Worktrees to Parallelize AI AgentsHow each agent gets its own isolated workspace.Writing
- 17 Side Projects I Built With Claude Code in Two MonthsFrom TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and agent tooling.Writing
- Programmer's ProverbsA collection of proverbs from the programmer.680 ★
I help teams implement AI-enabled product work, sharpen engineering practices, and build systems that survive real usage.
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