I retired from corporate America after twenty years in payments and enterprise systems, most of it at Visa, ending as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at Fraedom in Auckland, New Zealand. Then my family moved to a farm in North Carolina, and after a quiet stretch I started building again: PersekOS, AI tools, and now the beginning of my open-source work.
- PersekOS - my local AI operating stack and the center of what I am building now.
- Work background - the corporate arc before the farm and this current building chapter.
- Open source - the small-but-growing list of upstream contributions that have actually merged.
I am early in my open source journey, so this list is currently small: projects where a contribution actually merged upstream. It should grow quickly.
| Project | Contribution |
|---|---|
| openwhispr | OpenWhispr #1023 clipboard restore delay regression; Preserved rich clipboard formats during restore. |
| codebase-memory-mcp | codebase-memory-mcp #731 Visual Studio strict tool schema |
| browser | lightpanda browser #2856 charset unicode mojibake |
| SnapOtter | Repaired copied AI virtualenv paths during Docker bootstrap and added regression coverage. |
| OpenMAIC | Rendered math formulas in quiz text and added focused tests around formula parsing and fallback behavior. |
| open-wispr | Handled Homebrew trust installer failures with clearer remediation and installer regression coverage. |