Applied AI engineer. I build AI that works in the real world.

Computer Scientist and Mechanical Engineer with 20+ years shipping technology across three continents. I build LLM and agent systems, computer vision, and applied AI that runs in production: on the factory floor, the warehouse, the edge device, not just in a chat window. I founded and exited a computer-vision company, and I still stay close to the code.

make AI useful, not cute

• LLMs & agents · agentic workflows, tool use, memory, evaluation, RAG, and prompt/context engineering
• Computer vision · real-time detection and analytics on live camera streams
• Applied & industrial AI · predictive maintenance, automation, and decision systems for heavy industry
• Edge AI · self-improving agents designed to run on-device

• darwin-memo · self-curating memory for LLM agents, kept honest by survival-based selection rather than reward models or judges. Python, published on PyPI, with an MCP server, a benchmark suite against baselines, and integrations for the OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic, and local Ollama.

Leading applied-AI delivery for industrial clients (Timberstone) and product for an LLM platform at the Straits Institute for Applied AI. Author of two books on AI and the future of work.

• Website: rogersimoes.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rogermsc