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 OSS 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. These are projects where a contribution actually merged upstream. It should grow quickly.
| Project | Contribution |
|---|---|
| open-wispr | configurable Whisper prompt; sleep/wake recording recovery; clipboard insertion fix; Handled Homebrew trust installer failures with clearer remediation and installer regression coverage. |
| codebase-memory-mcp | Python LSP eval-depth guard; libgit2 allocator version floor; UI delete unwatch cleanup; Visual Studio strict tool schema |
| cli-printing-press | cli-printing-press #3497 offset/page bare --all pagination; cli-printing-press #3477 array request body stdin; remove vendor-specific profile wording |
| Vibe-Trading | Vibe-Trading #403 IM reply timeout config, PR #413; preflight redirect |
| remotion | WebM tail frame extraction; InputDragger keyboard focus |
| openwhispr | clipboard restore delay regression; Preserved rich clipboard formats during restore. |
| SurfSense | SurfSense #1354 separate embedding base URL |
| impeccable | impeccable #334 Google Fonts css2 family parsing |
| openmed | OpenMed #288 biomedical NER entity type categories, PR #1408 |
| server | preserve Universal Player startup restore settings |
| nono | intercept argv matcher hardening |
| last30days-skill | last30days skillignore regression coverage follow-up |
| browser | 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. |
