popped.dev

parse-nip

Co-Founder & Product Engineer · building tools, data systems, and experiments on the web.

github.com/parse-nip · agentfirst.software · popped.dev

About

I ship full-stack and systems projects across TypeScript, Rust, Python, and more. I care about developer experience, pragmatic tooling, and projects that are fun to build and useful in practice. This site is a community-built portfolio — the facts below stay fixed; style them however you like.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & Product Engineer

    Architected and deployed a full-stack AI-powered coding education platform using Next.js, TypeScript, and FastAPI, currently live in active school classrooms. Led user research and product strategy with educators. Designed the agentic lesson pipeline — AI that adapts to each student's pace without teacher intervention.

  • Software Developer Intern

    Engineered production-ready financial calculators in Python. Wrote comprehensive unit tests with FastAPI.

  • Co-Founder & Product Engineer — AgentFirst

    Developing an open-source SDK enabling autonomous AI agents to execute transactions utilizing stablecoin payment rails. Designed the full developer-facing API surface and payment integration end-to-end.

  • Discord Automation Lead & Moderator

    Scaled community operations as the first moderator for a server that grew to ~50,000 members. Built and shipped multiple AI-powered Discord bots replacing manual engagement workflows.

  • Open Source Contributor

    Contributed to projects including OpenScreen (screen recording tooling) and other community repositories.

Education

  • Computer Science

    Coursework includes systems and programming labs.

    Ongoing.

Projects

Skills

  • Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Python, GDScript, Crystal
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, HTML/CSS
  • Backend & data: Node.js, FastAPI, vector search, ML/sklearn, REST APIs
  • Game dev: Godot 4
  • Infra & deploy: Cloudflare Pages, Docker
  • Tools: Git, GitHub, Cursor AI agents

Achievements

  • 34+ public repositories on GitHub since 2023
  • buffet-clearers-overengineered — 8 stars; end-to-end Telegram analytics pipeline with visualization and ML models
  • Contributed to OpenScreen (screen recording tooling)
  • Built and deployed multiple popped.dev subdomains (trains.popped.dev, popped.dev)
  • Active open-source contributor across TypeScript, Rust, and Python codebases

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