Jacob Valdez
AI systems, full-stack, data/ml engineering, architect
Highlights
- Training IBM-1 + SC-WBD-00X brain prediction and decoding models for SuperCognition Labs — a lazily materialized implicit brain model driving image-to-EEG decoding and an embodied musculoskeletal body (IBM-1), and whole-brain foundation models fusing electrophysiology, hemodynamics and stimulation response (SC-WBD).
- Architected and implemented production integration surfaces for mobile and web clients at AGI, Inc.
- Building CommandAGI.com, an end-to-end agentic social platform for creators to build their vibestartups — computer + browser + mobile device control, robotics, sim, code/CAD/EDA and more eng automation, 43+ integrations, and more.
Skills
AI agents, schemas, evals, TypeScript, Next.js, React, Python, FastAPI, iOS, on-device LLMs, model quantization, multimodal pipelines, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cloudflare, Modal, PyTorch, JAX, model training, rapid prototyping
Experience
- Jan 2026 – Apr 2026API / Integration Architect · AGI, Inc.
- Interfaces and integration across our API, SDKs, and other partner-facing surfaces. iOS, on-device llms, model quantization, agents, control plane, etc.
- Owned api.agi.tech. First-responder to API infra / full-stack backend issues (Team across 3 countries/timezones, constant pushes directly to production)
agentsioson-deviceschemasapi - Oct 2025 – Jan 2026Software Engineer · AGI, Inc.
- WE ARE BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
- full-stack + infrastructure engineering across agentic systems: typescript, python, react/next.js, node.js, apis, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, aws, gcp, s3, data engineering, containers, drizzle, pg/psql, databases, queues, browser/computer use, agent runtimes, tool use, model inference, llm integrations, multimodal models, evals, automation, control planes, observability, debugging, deployment, ci/cd, production operations. shipped rapidly across the stack in a high-velocity, production-first environment.
agentsinfrafull-stackevals - Apr 2025 – Oct 2025Software Engineer · Breezy
- Full-stack product engineering across a rails/next.js monorepo for a prosumer (single-person business) AI receptionist platform.
- Independently owned features end-to-end from product requirements and implementation through integration, debugging, and production delivery.
- Worked across frontend, backend, ai integrations, and application infrastructure; Left for infra role at AGI Inc
voice-aiagentsrailsnext.js - Sep 2024 – Dec 2024Applied Machine Learning Engineer · Deepshard
the truffle computer
mlon-deviceresearch - Jan 2023 – Sep 2024Humanoid Robot Prototyping · Human Robots
Prototyped hydraulically actuated, endoskeletal humanoid robot: KiCAD, FreeCAD, Blender, Python, 3D printing, mdf board CNC routing, 3/16" A16 plasma cutting, 100um + 300um trace PCB fabrication and SMT assembly (LCSC), also 3018 diy milling if that counts. Ordered from 2 direct factory contacts in China and negotiated with several others. Did all the math in my notebook and brain before ChatGPT was useful for this!
roboticshydraulicscadhardwarepcb - Jun 2024Full Stack Pipeline Engineer · FLORA
typescript, python, modal, fal.ai, generative ai, difusion models, computer art, confy ui, react, serverless architecture
generative-aidiffusionfull-stack - Aug 2022 – Jan 2023Software Engineer · Motio, Inc.
Develop Soterre for Qlik Sense
javahibernate - Jun 2022 – Aug 2022Software Engineer (Intern) · Motio, Inc.
Develop Soterre for Qlik Sense
javahibernate - Jun 2021 – May 2022Software Developer · IT Lab · UT Arlington
- Collaborated with research group to evolve and test a flask-based statistical visualization tool CoWiz
- Currently developing a full stack web server MLN-Dashboard using Next-React-GraphQL stack
reactnext.jsgraphqlflask - Jun 2021 – May 2022Software Developer · College of Social Work · UT Arlington
Maintain and enhance multi-platform (iOS and Android) data collecting application MyAmble using flutter and firebase and web administrator interface
flutterfirebasemobile - Apr 2020 – Jun 2021Career break · Professional development
Pandemic + First year at University of Texas at Arlington
career-break - May 2016 – Mar 2020Crew Trainer · McDonald's
- Led safety committee and addressed employees during 30-minute monthly safety meeting
- Train employees on-the-job and formally
- In addition to 4 years of formal education, actively used Spanish on-the-job
trainingteam-leadershipsafetyspanish - 2020 – 2022B.S., Computer Science · The University of Texas at Arlington
CS coursework alongside heavy lab work, independent ML/robotics prototypes, and a steady research output. GPA 3.6/4.0.
educationcs - 2016 – 2018A.A.S., Mathematics · Navarro College
Math associate degree taken dual-credit during high school. GPA 3.9/4.0.
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Projects — Software & AI (60)
- Sep 2026Tensegra — research infrastructure for graph-conditioned attention, protected symbolic execution, and cost-sensitive agent control; paired experiments, counterfactual diagnostics, and audited checkpoints. python, pytorch, typed graphs, recurrent computation.
- Sep 2026Computerworld — deterministic multi-machine computer world for training and evaluating computer-use agents: filesystems, shells, desktops and a synthetic internet in one rust engine that ships native, on pypi and on npm with cross-platform state and pixel parity. rust, wasm, pyo3, wasm-bindgen, cpu rasterizer, simulation.
- Sep 2026IBM-1 — implicit brain model: one 3.84M kernel lazily materialized into 16 explicit models across EEG, MEG, vision and an embodied musculoskeletal body; 63.5% image→EEG retrieval (127× chance). python, mne, opensim.
- Aug 2026langcurriculum — procedural curriculum generator for evaluating and training symbolic ai: 180 lesson generators with computed ground truth, 411 languages from a unification grammar, and five zero-dependency renderings (raster, dictation, formant-synthesized audio, animation, drawn scenes). python, sqlite, unification grammar, dsp.
- Aug 2026Halo Prismatic — browser demo of refractive glass ui — svg displacement filters with per-channel index of refraction over a live cloud-field canvas. react, vite, css, canvas, github pages.
- Aug 2026jterm — cross-platform tabbed terminal with tmux-style splits, crash-durable unsubmitted-prompt recovery, and panes that can be code editors, browsers, or image/video/stl viewers. rust, tauri, typescript, react, xterm.js, codemirror, three.js.
- Aug 2026SC-WBD — whole-brain dynamics foundation model over 414 regions fusing EEG, fMRI, stimulation and behaviour through declared forward operators, with four public checkpoints and a claim-gate release process. pytorch, python, mne, nibabel, e-field solvers.
- Aug 2026RL Lab — client-side 2d multi-agent robotics testbed; exact polygon sat physics, n-segment caterpillar bodies, laplace-coefficient action space, neural/scripted/llm policies, neuroevolution + per-agent (1+1)-es learning, 84-check self-test suite, dependency-free apng renderer. typescript, react, vite, electron, node.
- Aug 2026RackSavant — social ai virtual try-on studio organized around mood, live fitting rooms, lookbooks, and body-preserving garment generation. react, cloudflare workers, durable objects, r2, gemini, expo, electron.
- Jun 2026fieldratchet — recursively self-improving pcb layout compiler; coupled-oscillator (kuramoto) placement substrate that mutates itself under a score gate; independent damped-wave emi validator (4mm→10µm). typescript, remotion, electron, kicad, mojo/max. aie world's fair hackathon (recursive intelligence).
- May 2026Microscope Viewer — electron viewer that streams a non-UVC usb microscope by driving its vendor-specific supercamera protocol over a small python usb bridge. electron, python, usb, jpeg streaming, hardware.
- May 2026ESP32-S3 USB Webcam — firmware that makes a seeed xiao esp32s3 sense enumerate as a standard usb video class webcam streaming mjpeg over native usb, seen on linux as a normal /dev/video node. esp-idf, platformio, c, usb uvc, embedded hardware.
- May 2026SynthUX — low-compute synthetic computer-use dataset generator that expands goals into grammar trees and replays them as low-level input in browser desktop simulators. python, node tree grammars, svelte simulators, hugging face datasets.
- May 2026yt2ctx — youtube-to-context compiler that turns reference videos into transcripts, representative frames, style bibles, shot specs, agent prompts, and zip artifacts. next.js, react, typescript, openai, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, vercel blob, postgres, mcp.
- May 2026notion-vibestartup — business operating system that creates notion dashboards to help 'vibestartups' launch quickly. oauth notion integration, vite, vercel, hackathon project.
- May 2026macos-web-next — browser-based macOS desktop simulation built as an instrumentable environment for computer-use agent training, forked from macos-web. svelte, vercel, html2canvas, computer-use agents.
- Apr 2026personal site — personal portfolio site where every artifact is a node in a navigable graph over one url space. next.js, mdx, force-directed graph, vercel.
- Apr 2026canvas-engineering — a compiler that lowers a typed schema of latent regions, connectivity, and update clocks into attention masks on a stock diffusion transformer, turning declared structure into a legible causal graph inside reverse diffusion. python, diffusion transformers, world models, pydantic, neurosymbolic, research.
- Mar 2026brain-model / Resonance — cortical dynamics and affect-geometry project that generates algorithmic music toward a six-dimensional affect target. python, pretty_midi, fluidsynth, eeg, research.
- Mar 2026belief-graph-orchestrator — event-sourced multi-scale cognitive control system for autonomous gui agents, where belief is a projection over an event log. python, event sourcing, research.
- Mar 2026Recursive Omnimodal Video Action Model — research on looped attention and spatiotemporal canvas layouts for video-action diffusion models, validated across 26 experiments and a cogvideox-2b robot-video graft. pytorch, diffusers, cogvideox, mujoco, robotics, research.
- Feb 2026ascii-art — browser-native multi-layer ascii art generator with per-layer palettes and blend modes. typescript, floyd-steinberg dithering, sobel edge detection, vercel.
- Feb 2026standup-ai — ai scrum-lead agent that reads notion and linear, drafts per-person standup summaries, flags blockers, and writes follow-up tasks back. typescript, notion api, linear api, vercel.
- Feb 2026windows-web-next — browser-based windows 11 simulation with window manager, virtual filesystem, and bundled apps for human annotation and computer-use agent research. svelte, typescript, vercel.
- Feb 2026The Tensor Computer — complete von neumann computer rebuilt as differentiable tensor operations so machine-code programs can in principle be learned by gradient descent. four independent ISA backends held in agreement by a shared conformance suite; a self-hosting c compiler and a windowing os run on the machine. python, jax, c, rust, differentiable programming, research.
- Feb 2026general-unified-world-modeling — typed causal ontology of civilization that projects economics, politics, firms, people, and events onto one structured latent world model with 857 fields for cross-domain forecasting. python, world models, structured latent inference, research.
- Jan 2026precisionBOM — ai-assisted bom sourcing tool with live digikey inventory, price breaks, alternates, and export paths. next.js, python multi-agent service, digikey api, hardware procurement, hackathon project.
- Dec 2025lifelogger — personal activity-tracking daemon that ingests local signals and runs batched llm summarization on hourly, daily, and weekly cadences. python, llms, local-first storage.
- Nov 2025browser-os — generic browser-native desktop shell with window manager, virtual filesystem, and app lifecycle that the windows-web-next and macos-web-next simulators inherit from. typescript, svelte, vercel.
- Nov 2025eggroll-trainer — python implementation of the EGGROLL low-rank evolution-strategies algorithm for training billion-parameter models without gradients. python, pytorch, evolution strategies.
- Sep 2025Bonk — electron desktop pet that watches your active window and nudges you back to your goals when you drift. electron, javascript, openai, anthropic, hackathon project.
- May 2025imgpt — python cli for generating openai images from single prompts or whole prompt directories, with persisted defaults, model controls, and cost-aware batch behavior. python, openai sdk, typer, rich, pydantic, poetry, pypi.
- Mar 2025bsbr — novel attention mechanism for near-linear processing of long sequences in transformers, using chunk-based attention with block retrieval. python, pytorch, transformers, research.
- May 2023The Agent Suite — voice ai agents and business automations for inbound calls, lead qualification, appointment booking, and operations. python, fastapi, supabase, postgres, sqlmodel, pydantic, stripe, react native, expo.
- May 2022Node Tree — python toolkit for programming tree-shaped generative processes that render natural-language descriptions and execute matching environment demonstrations, for synthetic demo-description data. python, context-free grammars, agents, tooling.
- Apr 2022TensorCode — framework for encoding/decoding arbitrary python objects with differentiable programming and runtime code generation — programming 2.0. python, pytorch, differentiable programming.
- Jan 2022MPNets — graph-based neural architecture experiment for training one policy across supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, hebbian, feedback, and structural learning signals. python, graph executor, research.
- Oct 2021MLN-Dashboard — modular server for data visualization, built and architected as a research assistant. typescript, react, next.js, graphql, prisma, strapi, research assistant role.
- Oct 2021The Multi-Agent Network (MAN) — modular framework for fusing pretrained foundation models with self-organising learning agents on a shared, typed workspace. python, salina, pytorch, deep learning, research.
- Oct 2021👩🏽🌾 The Fertile Cresent — umbrella ecosystem of repos and libraries advancing ai agents, including computatrum, the multi-agent network, tensorcode, and node-tree. python, deep learning, research.
- Sep 2021Broadening and Building Beyond Classical Reinforcement Learning — conference poster applying broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions to a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning architecture. reinforcement learning, multi-agent, affective psychology, school project.
- Sep 2021jnumpy — from-scratch autograd and deep-learning library built for coursework that bans third-party frameworks, later extended with connect-4 reinforcement learning. python, numpy, autograd, school project.
- Jun 2021Dash — covid-19 data visualization dashboard built as a web developer on the project team. python, pandas, flask, data visualization.
- Jun 202120Q — android 20-questions guessing game built by a 4-person team. java, kotlin, sqlite, android, school project.
- May 2021multigraph-nn — experiment for recurrent neural networks whose state is stored in typed, dynamically updated graphs with learnable edges and adjacency. tensorflow, keras, python, research.
- Apr 2021Stanford Open Datathon Group Project — datathon research project analyzing covid vaccine misinformation and twitter sentiment via clustering of bert tweet embeddings. python, bert, k-means, hypertools, 5-person group project.
- Mar 2021jplotlib — small matplotlib helper that lays out many generated images in a grid for research notebooks. python, matplotlib, setuptools, pip package.
- Mar 2021tf-som — tensorflow keras layers implementing locally competitive, self-organizing-map-style unsupervised feature learning, in dense and convolutional variants. python, tensorflow, keras, pypi package.
- Mar 2021Predictive General Intelligence — theoretical framework and plan for developing artificial general intelligence, written up as a paper and presentation. research, school project.
- Jan 2021DesparadosAEye — on-device android chatbot that ports facebook's blenderbot-small to tflite so a 335M-parameter model runs without a cloud backend. kotlin, java, sqlite, android, tensorflow lite, blenderbot, school project.
- Sep 2020multi-graph-former — experiment recasting transformer attention as graph neural network message passing, generalizing seq2seq into graph2graph with learned edge state. tensorflow, keras, python, research.
- Apr 2020Home Internet Factory — internet-connected prototyping hub where a raspberry pi gateway drives a tabletop cnc router, 3d printer, cameras, and 3.3V logic i/o. raspberry pi 4, cnc, 3d printing, diy hardware.
- Jul 2019Workplace Surveillance System — computer vision system that detects employees on their phones in the workplace. tensorflow.js, mobilenet, javascript, web.
- Feb 2019Full Stack Artificial Intelligence — research proposal for human-level AI via unsupervised GLOM-style agents that each control a sandboxed linux vm and evolve under artificial selection on information tasks. python, tensorflow, deep reinforcement learning, research.
- Feb 2019Computatrum — project to develop teachable yet autonomous open-ended computer-interaction agents. python, ai agents, computer-use agents.
- Oct 2016SQTEST — rule-based english-spanish translator handling past and present tense in both directions, formalizing verb conjugation and agreement rules. c#, visual studio, school project.
- Oct 2016Labatron — automated stoichiometry solver that takes a chemical equation and outputs fully worked-out work as a csv, for chem 1411/12. c#, visual studio, school project.
- Oct 2015Sale — basic spanish-english translation system using formal language parsing and a production system. c#, visual studio, school project.
- Mar 2015Cookie Cutter CNC — full-stack 36x36 sheet-metal CNC cutter with c# svg parser and toolpath scheduler plus an arduino client over a serial protocol. c#, arduino, svg parsing, electronics, diy hardware, school project.
- Sep 2014Copyright Calculator — scripted conversation web app that queries students to determine whether reused material qualifies for fair use. html, css, javascript, google sites, group school project.