I retired from corporate America after twenty years in payments and enterprise systems, most of it at Visa, ending as COO/CPO of Fraedom in Auckland, New Zealand. Then my family moved to a farm in North Carolina, and after a quiet stretch I started building again: PersekOS, AI tools, and now the beginning of my open-source work.
- PersekOS - my local AI operating stack and the center of what I am building now.
- Work background - the corporate arc before the farm and this current building chapter.
- Open source - the small-but-growing list of upstream contributions that have actually merged.
I am early in my open source journey, so this list is currently small: projects where a contribution actually merged upstream. It should grow quickly.
| Project | Contribution |
|---|---|
| openwhispr | OpenWhispr #1023 clipboard restore delay regression |
| SnapOtter | Repaired copied AI virtualenv paths during Docker bootstrap and added regression coverage. |
| OpenMAIC | Rendered math formulas in quiz text and added focused tests around formula parsing and fallback behavior. |
| open-wispr | Handled Homebrew trust installer failures with clearer remediation and installer regression coverage. |