🌏 Miami ↔ Ubud ↔ nomad | 🤖 AI automation builder
AI systems engineer focused on evaluation, reliability, retrieval, and tool-use. I build deterministic wrappers around LLMs, hybrid RAG over structured data, and reproducible eval harnesses.
🌐 maxpetrusenko.com – Tech consulting, somatic practices, and writing at the intersection of AI and consciousness.
- 🧬 Adaptive Agent – Self-improving AI agent with eval → feedback → prompt update loop. LangGraph + Next.js + 5-system comparative benchmark. Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch.
- 🌐 LLM Gateway – Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API on Mac Mini M4. Serves Gemma 4 (32K), Qwen 3, embeddings, STT, and TTS behind one bearer token. Zero cloud costs.
- 🎭 Agent Personas – Grounded persona graphs for AI agents in live communities. Receipt-based identity matching, operator controls, Discord-first. (GitHub)
- 🤖 OpenClaw experiment – I let an AI control my Mac for 3 weeks. Here's what I learned about trust.
- 🧮 AI Math Tutor – Open source Nerdy style AI math tutor with realtime voice, avatars, TTS, STT, and pluggable LLMs.
- 🚢 Ship – Treasury built project management and issue tracking app. I audited and hardened the fork across type safety, performance, accessibility, and tests.
- 👻 Ghostfolio – Open source wealth management app for stocks, ETFs, and crypto; think self hosted Empower for portfolio tracking.
- 🤝 Realtime Collab Board – Multiplayer whiteboard MVP with live sync, Firebase backend, and Playwright backed QA.
- 🧹 Unfollow X – Chrome extension for authority curation on X/Twitter. Clean feeds, safe ops. (Product Hunt featured)
- 🎵 SoundVista – Audio exploration MVP with clean UI and fast search
- 📝 maxpetrusenko.com – Next.js site with Medium sync, GEO-optimized articles, somatic event pages
- 🔧 filemaker-mcp-server – MCP bridge for FileMaker to AI agents
- 🧰 skills – Curated local skill registry for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents.
- 📏 llm-eval-notes – Public LLM evaluation artifacts for hallucination, brittleness, structured output, tool use, and safety.
- 🧠 hybrid-rag-structured – Hybrid RAG over Postgres + pgvector with benchmarked retrieval quality.
- 🛡️ deterministic-llm-service – Production-grade LLM gateway with retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and metrics.
- 🏛️ LegacyLens – Citation-grounded RAG for legacy COBOL codebases with dependency mapping and fallback UX.
- 🧘 Mindfold – Somatic education & energy work events in Miami
- AI-powered internal tools and automation systems
- Full-stack SaaS MVPs to production releases
- API integrations and workflow orchestration
- Secure-by-default systems for regulated and high-trust environments
- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
- AI/Agents: Claude Code, OpenAI API, LangGraph, Ollama, n8n, MCP servers
- Frontend: Next.js, React, Vue.js, Tailwind
- Backend: Node.js, Express, FileMaker (Claris)
- Infra: Cloudflare Pages/Tunnel, Ollama on Mac Mini, Netlify, AWS
- Tools: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub
- OpenClaw: I Let This AI Control My Mac for 3 Weeks – AI autonomy and trust
- Automate Your Entire Internet Life for $20/Month – Claude for Chrome vs Zapier
- The Illusion of Scale: Why Your LLM's Context Window Is Lying to You – Context limits in practice
- The Smartphone That Makes Police Officers Sweat – GrapheneOS privacy (249K views)
- Unleash Your Inner Wizard: Claude Skills – Claude Code guide (8.7K views)
- The God Button: Why 40 Scientists Just Begged Us to Stop Playing Creator – AI ethics and consciousness
- Claude Code Setup – Sub-agent configuration, custom skills, workflow integration
- n8n Automation – Workflow design, API integrations, custom nodes
- ChatGPT Integration – API setup, prompt engineering, RAG implementation
- Product & UX – Shape the right thing to build before writing code
Availability: Remote worldwide · In-person Miami FL · Seasonal Ubud Bali
Random Facts
- 42 Alumni (hands-on coding education)
- Backend Engineer at ICANotes (clinical documentation platform)
- Digital nomad: base in Miami FL, seasonal in Ubud Bali
- Somatic practitioner: tantra, energy work, trauma-informed space holding
- Cry when I see truly elegant code
- Believe AI agents are "slot machines for programmers"
- One article hit 249K views on Medium (GrapheneOS privacy piece)
- Book sessions at atelier.maxpetrusenko.com
"Ship beats perfect" – I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them. Currently exploring how AI agents change software development, and how somatic practices change our relationship with technology.
- AI-first product builds (MVP to production)
- OpenClaw setup and operator workflows
- Agentic coding pipelines (Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, MiniMax M2.5)
- n8n automations and API integrations
- Full-stack TypeScript systems with realtime architecture
- Healthcare-aware integrations (HIPAA context, Twilio, Kno2)