Hey, I'm Chris.
Software and Solutions engineer in the Bay Area. I occasionally ship features that real humans use and troubleshoot all miriad of issues.
I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and have since gone deep into the software world with AI/LLM tooling, and whatever rabbit hole I find myself in this week. I write about some of it on Medium when the mood strikes.
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By the numbers
- 101Coffees consumed
- 336Tickets closed
- 001Knees injured
- 063Browser tabs open right now
- 113Commits pushed
- 002Rubber ducks consulted
- ∞Bugs squashed
- 015"It works on my machine"s
- 011Subagents working in parallel
- 003Days since last bug report
- 001Partridge in a Pear Tree
Projects
cwsa.work
My personal site — a home for my work and writing, and a small sandbox for trying out ideas.
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ChatGPT-95
What if the most advanced AI assistant in the world looked like it was running on Windows 95? Only one way to find out.
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Roku Alarm Clock
Because I wanted to wake up to my TV and couldn't find anything that did it right, so I built it myself.
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Work Experience
Writing
The Chasm
Photo by Mads Schmidt Rasmussen on Unsplash [Excerpt from a draft] The boy slowly, quickly, yet cautiously, climbs a few steps up past summit of the mountain. He has mounted the insurmountable. Looking back he sees nothi…
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Hammer, Make No Mistakes
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash Abraham Maslow (same hierarchy of needs guy) wrote in 1966 that “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” What Maslow described as…
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