Ares

Later transitioned to part-time collaboration, which continues today.

• Role:
  • Led UI/UX design, full-stack development, and agent workflow orchestration for Soldy AI, an AI video generation product.

• Projects:
  • Soldy AI: AI video generation for creators and marketers; agent-orchestrated workflows for text-to-video, style transfer, and high-concurrency rendering.
    • Stack: Agno, Gin, Next.js

• Role:
  • Lead full-stack development and technical architecture for Zaka.
  • Tune prompts and evaluate models.
  • Build multi-environment deployment and app release pipelines; adopt coding agents for development and code review.

• Projects:
  • Zaka: An AI character app where users create characters based on people they know, chat with them on a shared map, read their diaries, and take part in stories.
    • Stack: Go (Kratos, Temporal, Eino), React Native / Expo, Supabase, PostgreSQL (pgvector), TypeScript / Bun, Cloudflare Workers / R2

Later continued the engagement in a technical consulting capacity.

• Role:
  • Built front and back ends and UI/UX for Vibeme and Animate AI.
  • Partnered with the AI vision team to build and integrate video processing and compositing pipelines into those products.

• Projects:
  • Vibeme App: A consumer video social and entertainment app for overseas markets, using AI vision models for video composition and interactive features.
    • Stack: React Native, Elysia, Next.js, Go (Temporal), Rust, Elasticsearch, FFmpeg
  • Animate AI: A web platform for AI video generation, with video stream processing, node-based workflows, and cloud rendering.
    • Stack: Next.js, NestJS, Trigger.dev, FFmpeg

• Role:
  • Owned architecture, delivery, and operations from zero to production.
  • UI design, marketing visuals, and technical business development.
  • Blockchain security, AI product work, and server operations.

• Projects:
  • Secure3: A crowdsourced Web3 security audit platform where auditors review smart-contract code for vulnerabilities.
    • Stack: Next.js, Spring, Python, MySQL, Prisma
  • Secure3 App: A Web3 audit hackathon platform using in-house AI agents to help identify security risks in smart-contract code.
    • Stack: Next.js, LangChain, Upstash Vector, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Spring

• Role:
  • Owned the market risk management system end to end: framework setup, full-stack development, operations, UI and motion design, and Jenkins deployment automation.

• Projects:
  • Market risk management (B2B): A quant risk SaaS platform for financial institutions, with risk metric calculations, automated reports, and data visualization.
    • Stack: React, Vite, Django, Tailwind CSS, Jenkins

• Role:
  • Led Web3 front-end architecture, tooling, continuous testing, and production operations.
  • Designed and implemented complex animations and interactions.

• Projects:
  • Polarise: Web3 non-standard asset (NSA) liquidity protocol; built front-end and on-chain integration for NFT collateral, lending, leasing, and automated pricing.
  • Polarise Protocol: Smart-contract network for non-standard asset trading with cross-chain liquidity routing; maintained testnet and mainnet releases.
    • Stack: React, Ethers.js, Web3.js, Hardhat, Python, C++
  • DREP: A decentralized reputation blockchain that quantifies user reputation across platforms and records it on-chain, with privacy-preserving data sharing.
    • Stack: React, Django, Jenkins

• Pinery: An open-source coding assistant for Feishu/Lark that answers code questions, writes code, and opens PRs. Self-hostable, with persistent connections for messages, multiple model providers, and configurable permissions for automated actions. TypeScript / Bun.
• Spotion: Search, resume, and create Codex CLI / Claude Code sessions right inside native macOS Spotlight, with a menu-bar app keeping the index in sync. Swift.
• imnotares.com: A personal website with wiki entries, notes, and articles.