11 projects

Workshop · the built record

Things I've built.

Some shipped to millions, some to me. The common thread: I still care about the sharp edges — the API shape, the failure mode, the way it feels to use at 3am when something's broken.

◆ In production

Systems I'm running right now.

  1. 01 2025 — now

    Clarity

    Strategic intelligence from a firehose of content.

    Ingests hundreds of newsletters and articles a week. Runs LLM passes over each piece — extraction, clustering, ranking. Delivers six daily briefings tailored to professional lenses. The editorial voice, the caching keyed on content hash, the Postgres schema, the eval harness — I built the whole thing and I'm still shipping to it daily.

    Impact Powers promitb.dev's daily feed · 420+ briefings · 12K+ sources analyzed

    Python · FastAPI · Next.js · pgvector · Temporal · Anthropic

  2. 02 2025

    AgentZ

    Sandbox environments for AI agents, ready in seconds.

    An OpenClaw-inspired agent sandbox platform on ECS with Cognito + Federate auth. Compliance-tested (DyePack). Gives internal teams a safe place to let an agent run loose without chewing up shared infrastructure.

    TypeScript · CDK · ECS · Cognito · K3s

◆ Public

What you can see from outside.

  1. 01 2024 — now

    The Panel · promitb.dev

    A personal site that refuses to be a résumé.

    The site you're reading. Daily briefings fed from a Mac Mini Postgres. Newsletter on D1 + Resend. Search on a 180KB lazy-loaded JSON index. A hand-built editorial voice, every page designed like a magazine feature.

    Impact You're looking at it · public since 2024

    Astro 4 · React 19 · Cloudflare Pages · Postgres · D1

◆ Personal tools

Tools I built for myself, shared sometimes.

  1. 01 2025

    WhisperFlow

    Talk to your Mac. It listens better than anyone.

    macOS menu bar dictation. Local Whisper for the recognition, Bedrock for the post-processing pass that fixes tone, grammar, names. The latency is under 500ms cold, ~120ms warm. I dictate most of my emails and commit messages into it now.

    Impact Shipped to my own machines · replaced Apple Dictation entirely

    Swift 6 · SwiftPM · WhisperKit · AWS Bedrock

  2. 02 2025

    1Code

    A code assistant built for how I actually code.

    An Electron desktop app that pairs a conversational surface with precise tool execution. Not a Cursor fork, not a Cline wrapper — my own opinion about how a code assistant should feel when you're the one driving.

    Electron · TypeScript · Bun · Drizzle · SQLite

  3. 03 2025

    Assistant

    My own AI platform — LibreChat + Dify + n8n, behind a hardware key.

    An EC2-backed personal AI platform. API proxy (Claude, GPT-5, local), LibreChat, Dify for workflows, n8n for automation — all behind WebAuthn SSO. My single source of truth for every AI query I run.

    FastAPI · CDK · Docker Compose · Cloudflare Tunnels · WebAuthn

◆ Shipped — in the archive

Work from prior chapters.

  1. 01 2021 — 22

    Amazon Music — Fraud & Moderation

    Stateful fraud detection at millions of events per second.

    Led the team designing automated policy-violation detection for the Music catalog. Built a streaming fraud platform doing stateful ops over millions of events per second. The architecture held up through four Black Fridays and a global pandemic.

    Impact Protected catalog and payments against billions in abuse attempts

    Java · Scala · Apache Flink · Kinesis · DynamoDB

  2. 02 2020 — 21

    Alexa Music — BERT NLU

    Teaching Alexa to understand music voice queries.

    Led the launch of BERT-based natural language understanding on Amazon Music's voice UX across Alexa devices. Shipped online multi-armed bandit ranking for voice search — first production NLU deployment at that scale in the division.

    Impact Statistically significant lift in voice search success rate

    Python · PyTorch · BERT · Multi-armed bandits

  3. 03 2017 — 20

    Amazon PDP — 200K RPS

    The detail page, at 200,000 requests per second.

    Semantic search on the product detail page using deep-learning embeddings + approximate nearest neighbor lookups. Then architected an offer-aggregation platform behind Home, Search, and PDP, handling 200K RPS at peak.

    Impact 143 bps lift in instant-answer rate · platform shipped 200K RPS

    Java · ANN · Deep embeddings · Offer aggregation

  4. 04 2015 — 17

    Amazon.in Fashion — first size chart

    Clothes, in the right size.

    One of the first engineers on Amazon.in Fashion. Built the first globalized size-chart solution across international marketplaces. A/B tests kicked in ~₹57MM in incremental annualized revenue.

    Impact ₹57 MM incremental annualized revenue

    Java · React · A/B testing · i18n

  5. 05 2015 — 17 · parallel

    PregBuddy

    My first attempt at making something from nothing.

    Nights and weekends: founding engineer at a pregnancy-care startup. Features, rating models, the blur of trying to build a real product from scratch. I still count what I learned there as the foundation for everything since.

    Impact 0 → 1 · founding engineer

    Android · Node.js · MongoDB · Rating models