My code contributions are live on many agentic evolution repositories, such as NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator, Hermes Agent Self-Evolution, autocontext and headlong.

I am a long-time contributor to Hermes Agent, as well as to many other projects, including Qwen-MM-Plugins, which makes any agent harness multimodal-native, and 86Box, an emulator of x86-based machines.

Creator of Compartment, an encrypted, fully offline memory for AI agents, and other projects such as nuclear compute and the Artificial Knowledge Collection. My Compartment agentic memory now ships as a default memory option in Hermes Agent.

Challenges authored for Datacurve's ShipD platform, each accepted after automated checks, solver runs and human review; three are included here as examples, with the hidden tests and reference solutions withheld to protect Datacurve's proprietary benchmark material, and each folder records exactly what was removed:

• instagram/libcst: Bind match capture patterns and comprehension walrus targets in scope metadata
• coleifer/peewee: Add ROLLUP, FETCH FIRST and TABLESAMPLE support to the query builder
• tobymao/sqlglot: Support postgres session statements and the @ and ^@ operators

• NousResearch/hermes-agent: credited as a contributor in the v2026.6.19, v2026.7.1, v2026.8.3 and v2026.9.11 release notes
  • feat(plugin-catalog): add compartment (encrypted offline memory provider)
  • fix(skills): make bundled-update backup handling crash-safe and idempotent
  • test(skills): add regression tests for bundled-update backup recovery
  • fix(curator): stop the rollback safety snapshot from pruning its target
  • fix(curator): stop restore from matching unrelated skills by name prefix
  • fix(tools): stop read_file rendering a phantom empty line for newline-terminated files
  • Merge consecutive same-role contents for native Gemini
  • fix(config): merge duplicate kanban block so auto_subscribe_on_create default survives
  • fix(curator): restore the real skills tree when a rollback extract dies part-way
  • fix(yuanbao): await the forwarded-records loading heartbeat
  • fix(auth): a transient read failure is not corruption
  • fix(gateway): do not claim a destructive-slash opt-out that was not saved
  • fix(sessions): briefly wait out a live compression lock instead of killing the turn
  • fix(cli): dispatch /background inline instead of queuing it behind the turn
  • test: restore four silently shadowed definitions and guard against more
  • fix(gemini): collapse array-typed tool schemas instead of crashing translation
• NousResearch/hermes-agent-self-evolution
  • fix(config): honor explicit --hermes-repo and make config construction non-fatal
• NousResearch/wandb-rs
  • Add Run::finish() to flush pending logs before exit

• softpower: Fix the power-off delay spinner range overflowing int16_t
• Voodoo: Fix nccTable0 Q2 writes landing in the I2 coefficient
• XTA: Restore the missing break in the WDXT-150 case
• Config: Fix crash loading a config without a mouse_type key
• net_plip: Fix misplaced parenthesis disabling the transmit bounds check
• Fix machines and BIOS entries missing on case-sensitive filesystems
• GUS: Fix the ADC sample rate divisor missing the +2 bias
• MIDI: Fix input queue overflow hang and broken real-time bytes

• traj: recursive tail and cat return the whole tree, in order
• ci: point the smoke container's apt at the Azure mirror
• traj: formatted tail and cat return the steps --filter matches

• NVIDIA/OWL
  • Add OWL_DOUBLE types to typeToString
• NVIDIA/SkillEvaluator
  • feat(reporting): record the evaluated source identity on benchmark cards
• NVIDIA-RTX/NRI
  • Fix: include NRIRayTracing.h in NRIWrapperVK.h

• fix(shared): read input_audio.format from a URL's path, not its query string
• fix(shared): normalize box corner order before drawing
• fix(core): apply EXIF orientation in read_image, crop and draw_bbox

• Fix numTemporalLayers and temporalIdNested bit widths in hvcC
• Fix discarded errors in marshalSlice and marshalUint

• apache/answer
  • fix: comment url swaps title and answer id
• apache/datasketches-java
  • Fix Util.numDigits returning 0 for 0 and 1, and 18 for 1E18

• fix(asp.net): correct the server side comment terminator
• fix(dart): count single quoted string literals

• Honor language= in onesignal:// and preserve it through url()
• Preserve query parameters in signl4:// url()

• fix(utils): don't evict a key when overwriting an existing LRUCache entry
• fix(utils): advance the token bucket timestamp even when the bucket is full

• fix(chcol): return true from HasType when the Variant carries a type
• fix(churl): validate each host of a comma separated DSN authority

• fix: Rewrite F() expressions inside Q objects
• fix: Rewrite translated field names in all annotate() expressions

• Fix copysign() dropping the magnitude when y is zero
• Fix sign() returning 1 for NaN

• fix: drop unmatched properties when additionalProperties is false
• fix: apply the else branch when a schema has if and else but no then

• Fix annotation rectangle under a rotated transformation matrix
• Fix doc.list() throwing on a numbered or lettered list with align center or right

• fix: default dataclass metadata to a dict, not a pydantic FieldInfo
• fix: mirror every compaction ledger append, not only large chunks

• [fix] Write the sparsity CSV columns once in three sparse evaluators
• [docs] Describe the MarginMSE target as the signed margin

• fix(video-subtitles): keep the space between merged subtitle clauses
• fix(quick): read the deck language and theme fonts from the roster's first page

• Fix $not filters on dot-notation paths
• Keep default parsers when only some are overridden

• fix(bitbucket): send redirect_uri on the authorize hop
• fix(logs): compare whole segments in path guard

• fix(eval): stop a comma from swallowing the GSM8K answer
• fix(eval): honor a stated "answer is X" in multiple choice

• fix(search): derive snippet spans from the matched bytes
• fix(quality): keep signal excerpts on rune boundaries

• fix(parser): restrict continue targets to iteration statement labels
• fix(parser): parse / after an await identifier as division

• fix(eload): cache mode only after the driver confirms set_mode
• fix(dmm): release the driver and reset apply state when close() fails

• fix: keep the bytes after a Hue/Saturation block's range records (#645)
• fix: replace the layer at an index instead of inserting before it

• Sort extra keys when formatting ForbiddenExtraKeysError
• Escape the index note when structuring heterogeneous tuples

• [0.11.x] proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length
• proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length

• [rtext] Fix TextToPascal()/TextToCamel() truncating text after a separator
• [rtext] Fix TextSplit() reading past its buffer on text of 1024 bytes or more

• fix(diff): compare bad file extensions case-insensitively
• fix(bitbucket): send inline comment ranges with start_to

• fix: match ip_type case-insensitively in IONOS and Hetzner providers
• fix: discard wrong-family IP instead of returning it from getIPOnline

• Fix wrapText cache key collision between different texts and widths
• Fix multi-line <Text> vanishing when it starts above the top of the output

• Fix q weights in Accept header parsing
• Strip optional whitespace when splitting headers on ,

• fix(input): type AltGr characters in the command, search and filter prompts

• fix(rag): escape Excel Markdown table cells

• fix(wiki): drop a leading BOM on a page with no frontmatter

• fix(vec): round half-way cases away from zero in the SIMD backends

• fix(string): reject signed Infinity and non-decimal literals in StringToNumber

• Fix trec_eval dropping the first evaluation option

• fix(react): read the important marker only at the end of a value

• fix: add missing providers to KnownProviders

• Clear a queued song's row without taking the playlist's own

• channel: Implement Display and Error for TryReadyError and ReadyTimeoutError

• Fix SOL-ARK-LV-CAN 0x359 over-current sign bug

• misc: Snapshot the environment when a switchenv is entered

• fix(cli): split key=value pairs at the first separator

• Strip the r# prefix from raw identifiers in derive(Debug)

• embassy-sync: wake the next waiter when a FairSemaphore acquire is canceled

• Fix comment handling when looking for commands

• fix: report the decoded filename on LIMIT_FILE_SIZE

• fix(eventbridge,scheduler): read cron day-of-week as AWS 1-7 SUN-SAT

• Avoid signed overflow in RGBLINK's +, -, and *

• fix: keep grid_with_text labels on their anchors

• Fix overflow panic draining an empty tree with integer coordinates

• httputil: fix quality value parsing in ParseMultiValuesHeader

• fix(libreoffice): report an encrypted .xlsb as password-protected

• Fix CudaCallable type inference never being called

• Fix added_lines and deleted_lines dropping "++" and "--" content

• drive_virtual: fix CHDIR succeeding on a file on drive Z:

• fix(core): parse MiMo Code and fx on the local report path

• fix(deployer): merge gmsaCredentialSpecName from its own field

• fix(rbacgraph): order escalation results instead of reading map order

• fix(search): stop a repeated URL from faking cross-engine agreement

• man: fix option names that archive_write_set_options rejects

• Fix Wickersmith's Tools creating untapped Scarecrow tokens

• fix(ts): keep byte RLE within the lengths its headers can express

• [markdown] Omit the link and image title when the HTML has none

• auth: strip a terminating slash from the issuer before building metadata URLs

• fix(metrics): mask ignored labels in padding-free seq_acc

• Update data-theme when the user picks a theme

• fix(oxvg_optimiser): keep ellipses selected by a stylesheet in convertShapeToPath

• Flush sinks and run periodic tasks when manual backend polling drains the queues

• fix(reference): reorder Unique outputs correctly when sorted=0

• fix(cache): clone cached issues to stop issue paths from accumulating

• [nobohub] Fix ignored keepaliveInterval setting

• fix(server): relay client websocket closes with a legal code

• fix: attribute recursive copy tag failures to the destination

• fix(redact): route JSONL payloads through the structure-aware pass

• fix(types): hash 0.0 and -0.0 to the same value

• fix: handle strokes wider than the shape in Ellipse.strokeContains

• 🐛 core: fix query hash collisions from the shared sort buffer

• Fix the semihosting file open modes for update and append

• fix(resources): center a plate on the adapter hole's y size, not its x size

• Qute: require the index parameter for list get/take/takeLast

• hir: resolve callback optional-opaque returns in the enclosing module

• fix(singlestoredb): support % as the modulo operator

• fix: canonical image name for registries addressed by host and port

• fix: write the Feather file version the Data Exporter asked for

• fix(knowledge): keep long non-ASCII folder names valid UTF-8

• fix(report-file): surface write stream errors instead of a TypeError

• fix(lexer): close multi-line string after escaped backslash

• fmt: honor -x and -X instead of always matching prefixes exactly

• Scope schedule and repo CLI list calls to the Velero namespace

• [Doc] Fix markdownlint findings in the serving API reference

• fix: keep the namespace prefix in attributes()

• fix(adapters): quote YAML scalars in OpenCode and Copilot frontmatter

• fix(cline): close a stripped block at its own closing tag

• fix(search): break score ties deterministically so ranking is reproducible

• fix(zod): treat @uuid without a version as any UUID version

Earlier hermes-agent commits are also carried by 216 downstream copies and derivatives of that project (list).

• Compartment: Encrypted, fully offline agentic memory. One click install, GUI w/ memory map, all OS and agents. Superior memory creation, storage and retrieval. Python, Apache-2.0, with a docs site. Listed in Awesome-AI-Memory, Awesome-AI-Agents, Awesome-Agent-Memory, awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-mcp, toolsdk-mcp-registry.
• nuclear-computing: Nuclear compute (radiative compute) as an alternative computing substrate to electronic and quantum machines: one radioactive medium supplies power, logic, memory, and interconnect, enabling sealed portable computers that compute without external power.
• artificial-knowledge-collection-6.0: Knowledge of special interest to AI: nine datasets of concepts, relationships, constants and measurements, each one clean file, aligned into a single 544,279-node map, plus a reasoning benchmark. Artificial knowledge for artificial intelligence.

• MBA, University of Adelaide (now Adelaide University), 2024
• Google IT Support Professional Certificate
• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate
• Google Project Management Professional Certificate
• Library & Information Services, University of Adelaide and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
• Foundations of Finance, University of Cambridge
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Board Approved Member, Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW, since 2026
• National Member, National Seniors Australia, since 2025

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