Thesis

2026 is the year of alignment and tool calling

Alignment
Tool Calling

I've spent over a decade in AI — building Bittensor subnets, shipping computer vision systems, competing against AlphaFold, fine-tuning one of the best tool-calling models in the world. I'm obsessed with these problems and I want to work on them.

Alignment with human values, and the race both to get there and away from there. Capability is compounding faster than safety is keeping up. I build adversarial evaluation systems where my job is to make honest participation the only viable strategy.

Recursive self-improvement through tooling. Models that call functions, chain actions, and modify their own behavior. I built one of the world's top-ranked tool-calling models and the infrastructure to evaluate what it does with that power.

Background

What I've built

2026 — Present
Director of Advanced Models
AnswerRocket

Domain expert leading the rapid PoC team. Fine-tuning, agentic architecture, tool-use orchestration. Taking new AI capabilities from prototype to production fast.

2024 — Present
Decentralized AI Engineer, Subnet Developer
Bittensor

World's top-ranked 8B tool-calling model. MCP server architecture for agentic systems. LLM fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, evaluation and sandboxing infrastructure. Incentive mechanism design across Subnets 20, 45, 64. 1000+ H200 GPU cluster via vLLM/Kubernetes.

2022 — 2025
Director of IT & Data
Revol Greens

Computer vision, predictive models from 5B+ sensor records, full AWS/Azure infrastructure.

2019 — 2022
AI/ML Engineer → Adjunct Professor
Cass · Daugherty · UMSL

Anomaly detection, OCR, pricing optimization. Taught Data Science.

2019 — 2020
MS Computer Science
UMSL

First-author paper (IEEE/ACM). Competed against AlphaFold at CASP. BS in CS & Philosophy.

Talks

Places I've spoken

Nov 2025
Incentive Mechanisms in Decentralized Intelligence
DevConnect Argentina
Sep 2025
Subnet Symposium
DNA House, Singapore
Jun 2025
Honest Validation & Subnets
SuperAI Singapore
Apr 2025
Decentralized Tool Calling
Austin Bittensor Summit
2020
Deep Learning for Protein Structure
UMSL
2020
First Author — IEEE/ACM
Trans. Computational Biology
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