Jacob Valdez
AI systems & full-stack engineer
Agent infrastructure, full-stack AI products, and the runtime glue that turns research ideas into shipped software.
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Highlights
- Architected production integration surfaces for mobile and web clients at AGI, Inc.
- Building VibeStartup, an end-to-end platform for spinning up startups (planning, code, infra, growth) on top of agent workflows.
- Founded Limboid — a long-horizon robotics company; ship the software side end to end (control, sim, agent stack, dashboards).
- Authored a wide technical archive (ML systems, agents, multi-agent networks, consciousness, dev platforms) backing each project.
Skills
AI agents, agent runtime, tool use, schemas, evals, TypeScript, Next.js, React, Python, FastAPI, iOS, on-device LLMs, model quantization, multimodal pipelines, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cloudflare, Modal, research synthesis, technical writing, rapid prototyping
Experience
- Jan 2026 – Apr 2026API / Integration Architect · AGI, Inc.
Owned the integration surface across API, SDKs, and partner-facing edges — iOS, on-device LLMs, model quantization, agent control plane. Led schema + integration work through fast product pivots.
agentsioson-deviceschemas - Oct 2025 – Jan 2026Software Engineer · AGI, Inc.
Infrastructure for AGI — agent runtime, mobile glue, eval tooling. Promoted into the integration architect role.
agentsinframobile - Apr 2025 – Oct 2025Software Engineer · Breezy
Voice-AI automation product — agent workflows, conversational interfaces, integration plumbing.
voice-aiagents - Sep 2024 – Dec 2024Applied ML Engineer (Intern) · Deepshard
The Truffle computer — large-model experimentation, multi-agent research, on-device inference tooling.
mlon-deviceresearch - Jun 2024Full-Stack Pipeline Engineer · FLORA
Generative-AI creative pipeline — TypeScript, Python, Modal, fal.ai, ComfyUI, diffusion models, serverless Next.js front end.
generative-aidiffusionfull-stack - Jun 2022 – Jan 2023Software Engineer · Motio
Built Soterre for Qlik Sense — full-stack engineering across product surfaces in Java/Hibernate. Started as an intern; converted to full-time in August.
full-stackjavaproduct - 2020 – 2022Research Assistant · UT Arlington research labs
Multi-agent learning, differentiable programming, world models, robotics — early prototypes that became the lineage in the project archive.
researchmlagents - 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 (60)
Software & AI — focus (32)
- 2026SynthUX — A low-compute synthetic visual computer-use dataset generator: goals expand into concrete Node Tree-style grammar trees, terminal affordances are replayed as low-level mouse and keyboard input in browser desktop simulators, and the resulting trajectories are recorded as frames, observations, videos, and alignment metadata.
- 2026Bonk — A tiny AI life coach: a friendly desktop doge watches your active window, tracks goals, and gently bonks you back toward the work you meant to do.
- 2026yt2ctx — A YouTube-to-context compiler that turns reference videos into transcripts, representative frames, style bibles, shot specs, agent prompts, and ZIP artifacts.
- 2026notion-vibestartup — A Notion Developer Platform Hackathon project: OAuth into a founder workspace, generate the company operating system, publish product routes, and write real runtime events back into Notion.
- 2026macos-web-next — macOS desktop simulation in the browser — companion to windows-web-next for computer-use agent training.
- 2026Chem-0 — A prototype autonomous chemistry lab exploring how AI agents can operate a low-cost robot arm, camera loop, lab workspace, and evented measurement stack.
- 2026Trash Sorter — A robotic trash-sorting prototype built as an initial hands-on learning experience with a LeRobot arm at the Founders Inc Physical AI Hack World Tour SF hackathon.
- 2026personal site — This site. Next.js + MDX, every artifact is a node in a graph, the navigation is the relationship.
- 2026Lunar Rover — A lunar rover prototype built at RoboHacks at Y Combinator to collect regolith in a moon-surface scenario, with a four-node autonomous control architecture spanning remote viewing, ground control, satellite relay, and robot control.
- 2026brain-model / Resonance — A cortical dynamics and affect-geometry project that became Resonance: algorithmic music targeted at a six-dimensional model of joy, flow, and self-model quieting.
- 2026belief-graph-orchestrator — Event-sourced multi-scale cognitive control system for autonomous GUI agents.
- 2026Recursive Omnimodal Video Action Model — ROAM studies looped attention and spatiotemporal canvas layouts for video-action diffusion models, grounding a cortical-canvas hypothesis in 26 experiments across toy models, MuJoCo behavior cloning, and a CogVideoX-2B robot-video graft.
- 2026ascii-art — Multi-layer ASCII art generator with dithering, edge detection, and compositing — browser-native.
- 2026standup-ai — AI scrum-lead assistant — automates standup task management across Notion and Linear.
- 2026windows-web-next — A browser-based Windows 11 simulation built for human annotation and computer-use agent research.
- 2026general-unified-world-modeling — A typed causal ontology of civilization that projects economics, politics, firms, people, and events onto one structured latent world model.
- 2026precisionBOM — AI-powered BOM optimization with live DigiKey inventory, price breaks, alternates, and export paths that move a hardware team from spreadsheet to sourcing decision.
- 2026The Tensor Computer — A complete von Neumann computer — ALU, registers, cache, virtual memory, bus, GPU, peripherals — rebuilt as differentiable tensor operations in JAX, so that programs written in machine code can, in principle, be learned end-to-end by gradient descent.
- 2026canvas-engineering — A type system for multimodal latent dynamics that turns video diffusion models into structured world-modeling substrates.
- 2025lifelogger — Personal activity tracking daemon with LLM summarization.
- 2025browser-os — Browser-native desktop shell — generic OS chrome that windows-web-next and macos-web-next inherit from.
- 2025imgpt — A Python CLI for generating OpenAI images from one-off prompts or whole prompt directories, with persisted defaults, model controls, and cost-aware batch behavior.
- 2022TensorCode — A framework for encoding and decoding arbitrary Python objects, differentiable programming, and runtime code generation — Programming 2.0 with the abstractions software engineers already know.
- 2022MPNets — Multi-Paradigm Networks: a graph-based neural architecture experiment for training one policy across supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, Hebbian, feedback, and structural learning signals.
- 2022Node Tree — A Python toolkit for programming tree-shaped generative processes that can render natural-language descriptions and execute matching demonstrations in an environment.
- 2021The Multi-Agent Network (MAN) — A modular framework for fusing pretrained foundation models with self-organising learning agents on a shared, typed workspace.
- 2021tf-som — TensorFlow layers for locally competitive, self-organizing-map-style feature learning.
- 2021Predictive General Intelligence — Theoretical framework an plan for developing artificial general intelligence
- 2020multi-graph-former — A TensorFlow/Keras experiment showing that transformer attention can be read as graph neural network message passing, then generalized from seq2seq to graph2graph.
- 2019Computatrum — It's time for AI grow up
- 2017Polonius as a Fool — Animation of two scenes from Hamlet for 11th grade English class in Spring 2017.
- 2015Space Pong — A two-player Pong-style game built in Blender during Summer 2015, with a space-themed arena and keyboard controls for playing against a friend or yourself.
Adjacent work (28)
- 2026ESP32-S3 USB Webcam — Firmware that makes a Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense enumerate as a real USB Video Class webcam, with Linux seeing it as a normal /dev/video camera.
- 2025eggroll-trainer — Python implementation of EGGROLL (Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning) for scalable evolution strategies training
- 2025bsbr — novel attention mechanism for efficient processing of long sequences in transformer architectures
- 2024Tiles — Free and open source tiles matching game!
- 2023Jacob's Hits 2023 (album) — Some of my favorite personal music creations
- 2022AI Proverbs — The treasure trove of AI ponderances. Pictures and text by AI.
- 2021MLN-Dashboard — Modular server for data visualization
- 2021👩🏽🌾 The Fertile Cresent — Ecosysten of projects, repositories, and libraries to promote the advancement of artificial intelligence
- 2021Broadening and Building Beyond Classical Reinforcement Learning — Affective psychology + multi-agent reinforcement learning
- 2021jnumpy — Another autograd / deep learning / RL library
- 2021Summer Break 2021! (album) — A collection of various songs capturing various emotions I experienced during the 2021 summer break
- 2021Dash — Covid19 Analysis Visualization Dashboard
- 202120Q — 20 Questions Android App
- 2021Stanford Open Datathon Group Project — Data scientist in a 5-student international group
- 2021DesparadosAEye — Project manager, general app developer, and ML engineer for a 5-person group developing open-ended Android chatbot
- 2020Home Internet Factory — CNC router + 3D printer + Raspberry Pi 4 + camera + Internet
- 2019Workplace Surveillance System — When you need to catch employees on their phone, this will do the trick!
- 2019Full Stack Artificial Intelligence — Computer interaction + deep reinforcement learning
- 2019Limboid — Hydraulic musculoskeletal humanoid robot
- 2016SQTEST — Flexible Spanish – English translation system
- 2016Labatron — Automated stochiometry solver for CHEM 1411/12
- 2015Sale — Basic Spanish – English translation system
- 2015Cookie Cutter CNC — Full stack engineering project
- 2014Dolphin Rocket — Bottle-rocket project and mini documentary from 9th grade: a low-budget MythBusters x October Sky crossover inspired by Apollo and early spaceflight history.
- 2014Copyright Calculator — Scripted conversation bot to help students stay safe
- 2014The Right Night Light — Blender animation about a monkey searching for the right night light so he can cross the ground, completed in May 2014.
- 2013Looking for Princess Suzzane — Blender animation made to teach conjugation of -AR verbs in Spanish, published on December 3, 2013.
- 2013Cookie Baker 3D Printer — Programmable 12×12 2D gantry