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        voice + LLM that *listen*

"Listening is the product."

Founder of Say, Pi · Applied AI Engineer · Long‑time shipper of reliable software

🏆 New Frontiers entrepreneur · ⭐ 4.9★ Chrome Web Store · 👥 Thousands of active users

I turn tricky human‑computer moments into smooth, useful experiences — specializing in real‑time voice AI, LLM orchestration, and production‑grade systems that respect how humans actually communicate.

A consumer service that gives AI assistants a natural voice interface where people already work. Think Whisper STT → LLM orchestration → expressive TTS, with low‑latency streaming, multilingual support, and polite end‑of‑speech detection (we wait for your last word).

• Agentic listening / discretionary responses so assistants talk when useful, not just when possible.
• Hands‑free interruption and smart barge‑in that avoids stepping on the user.
• Production‑grade: FastAPI/Node services, Postgres, auth, observability, CI/CD; graceful failover across model providers.
• Real users: 4.8★ Chrome Web Store rating with thousands of installs; strong retention and long sessions.

Goal: be the easiest way to add respectful, multilingual voice to any LLM surface.

I ship end‑to‑end systems that combine LLM integrations, evals/guardrails, RAG, observability, and reliability engineering. I'm comfortable choosing trade‑offs, then measuring them in production.

Languages & Frameworks:

Infrastructure & Tools:

AI & Voice:

Before Say, Pi, I spent years shipping in regulated and enterprise contexts:

• Merative (IBM Watson Health) — Staff engineer delivering high‑availability, HIPAA‑constrained data flows and life‑sciences apps; predictable releases, auditability, and operational readiness.
• IBM Watson — Multilingual NLP prototypes → hardened production services (incl. Arabic/Spanish); DevOps leadership, CI/CD automation; cloud migrations for enterprise clients.
• IBM Software Group — From feature ownership to refactors of acquired SaaS; performance, security, maintainability.

Bottom line: I bring enterprise-grade reliability and operational excellence to cutting-edge AI innovation.

• Ship small, ship often. (weekly at minimum)
• Tight feedback loops — user engagement drives everything; iterate fast based on real usage.
• Build in public — share early, gather feedback, improve continuously.
• TDD & evals — test-driven development + guardrails keep UX from regressing as models change.
• Iterative development — ship MVP, measure, refine, repeat.
• Privacy & reliability are user‑visible features.
• Docs & observability so teams move faster.
• Motto: Ship > cope.

• Founding/early engineering roles — Applied AI, voice, product engineering
• Short consulting gigs — Standing up real‑time voice/LLM systems
• Partnerships — Putting useful software in users' hands

• ✅ Active users with high retention & strong reviews
• ✅ New Frontiers entrepreneur
• ✅ Active community & production demos

• Big picture AI understanding — strong grasp of the AI landscape, latest developments, and emerging trends
• Staying current — continuously tracking and integrating cutting-edge AI/ML advancements
• Real‑time latency & barge‑in UX that actually works
• Multilingual support — voice that works globally
• Solving the "don't interrupt me" problem — respectful AI that waits

Email: [email protected] DMs open: @saypi_ai · @rosscads

_{Bonus geek fact: I've compiled a weekly crossword for ~15 years. Pattern‑matching and clue‑writing pair nicely with prompts, turns out. 🧩}