Hi, I'm Ian.

I'm a software engineer working across backend development and AI. My work involves building APIs, working with data, integrating language models, and developing systems that solve practical problems.

I approach AI from a software engineering perspective. Models can generate convincing answers, but that doesn't automatically make those answers correct. When applications deal with money or private information, I believe important decisions should be backed by reliable code, clear rules, and proper human oversight.

I'm also interested in understanding how things work beneath the surface. I enjoy taking ideas from research papers and implementing them myself, from attention mechanisms and backpropagation to LoRA and small language models. I want to understand the underlying mathematics, not just know how to use a library.

Outside of building applications, I'm interested in system design, machine learning, and the engineering decisions that make software reliable in the real world.