AI / Product / Sydney

I build AI systems that take
safety as seriously as capability.

I work across product, research, and engineering: multi-agent systems, goal-driven agent loops, local AI operating systems, memory that knows where it came from. Some of that work ships inside a global hardware company, and some of it started as a problem I had myself and could not find a decent tool for.

Before any of that there were two startup exits in video games, one out of Shanghai and another while in Berlin, and a long stretch of living and working across twelve countries on four continents that eventually landed me in Sydney.

Featured work

Seven projects
  1. Vivid Clean

    Local-first tool that strips AI watermarks and writing tells from documents, built for people who use AI as an accessibility aid rather than a way to cheat.

    shippedaccessibility
    Bash · Python · pandoc
  2. VAI Santé

    A privacy-first personal AI for managing fragmented medical information: local-first, provenance-aware, built during cancer treatment.

    researchactive
    Python · Mermaid · evaluation harness
  3. DAM Butler MCP

    Breville's first MCP-based internal tool: a custom GPT connected to 235K+ brand assets via Brandfolder API so GTM teams across APAC, NA, and EMEA can retrieve assets by natural language query. In daily production use.

    productionenterprise
    MCP · Vercel · Brandfolder API · ChatGPT Enterprise
  4. Vivid Alpaca

    Paper-first multi-agent AI trading lab with execution guardrails between agent recommendations and broker order submission.

    activesafety
    Python · Dash · Alpaca API · multi-agent
  5. Espresso Horoscope MCP

    Local-first MCP project that turns espresso shot metrics into a personalised cosmic reading, generated offline with GPT-OSS through LM Studio.

    shippedhackathon ★ 3
    Python · Next.js 15 · LM Studio · MCP
  6. Sourdough Intelligence

    ML-powered sourdough framework. 207-recipe regression and IBM Watson sentiment analysis, started in 2018, before LLMs.

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    R · IBM Watson NLP · regression
  7. Almost

    Upload a LinkedIn PDF. Almost finds 3–5 real fork points in your career. You pick one. It renders the alternate you in one of four formats.

    shippedproduct
    Next.js 14 · Anthropic API · Fraunces

Speaking

Two engagements
  1. Panel on stage at Vercel Ship Sydney 2026: The AI org, people, structure, and the decisions that matter
    Vercel Ship Sydney · 2026

    The AI org: people, structure, and the decisions that matter

    Panel with Tom Glover (MYOB) and Kristina Ryan (Go1), moderated by JJ Lecocq (Vercel). The interesting part was the cross-industry contrast: legacy cleanup, shadow-AI sprawl, and a modern stack running inside a 94-year-old hardware company, all wrestling with the same tension between moving fast and building foundations that hold.

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  2. Speaker card for Vivid Savitri at the Sydney Enterprise AI and Automation Summit 2026
    Sydney Enterprise AI and Automation Summit · 2026

    Is your AI program hitting the mark?

    Panel discussion on enterprise AI program evaluation, hosted by Clutch Events in Sydney.

    Event details →

Writing

One piece
  1. LinkedIn · 21 August 2026

    AI watermarking is the new scarlet letter

    Every major lab is shipping watermarks as a transparency win. What actually happens: a mark that reads as cheating no matter why the AI was used, landing hardest on disabled and neurodivergent writers who rely on it to write at all. Spell-check and academic fraud getting flattened into the same signal is the actual problem.

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How I build

Five principles

I use AI where it earns its place. Half the fun is figuring out whether it's actually helping or just slowing me down, especially the moment it starts producing slop. Ain't nobody got time to babysit a dumb agent.

  • Open-source and local AI: I default to open and local models first, weighing privacy, cost, capability and the job in front of me. Day to day that's LM Studio and Ollama running open weights, Qwen included. At work the stack is closed, mostly OpenAI and Anthropic, which comes with its own tradeoffs.
  • Agent loops and graph engineering: I build the harness around agent workflows, explicit state, scoped delegation, handoffs that actually carry context, and memory that doesn't turn into a junk drawer. This is the actual work behind CoworkOS and WorkspaceOS.
  • Human-AI product design: I turn messy real-world work into AI products people can understand, trust, and use.
  • Evaluation, evidence and safety: I test what a system actually does, keep provenance where it matters, and put review gates around decisions that have real consequences. Same discipline behind chain-of-custody memory and execution guardrails on live trading.
  • Product direction and delivery: I move from problem framing and prototype to a working product, with enough technical depth to make good calls along the way.

Past lives / preserved work

Archive

Three snapshots

Earlier work, preserved as standalone sites. The archives open in a new tab so this portfolio remains your wayfinding layer.