Simplified Transformer, bottom to top: embeddings, multi-head self-attention, feed-forward network and output projection. Residual connections, normalization and repeated blocks are omitted. Directional signals illustrate training; no actual LLM training or inference runs here.
Output
Feed-forward
Self-attention
Embeddings
Forward → loss → backward → update
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// 01 SERVICES
Two ways to work together.
Different needs. A shared focus: practical AI, built for real work.
quitereason.aiComing soon
Private AI for businesses.
Your knowledge. Your infrastructure. An AI built around your company.
I'm developing a self-hosted LLM service for businesses, with a focus on financial teams. Adapted with LoRA, it will pair your own model with an on-demand virtual Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for your team's workflows.
Open-source runtime that hosts personal automation agents on your own machine. Bring-your-own-CLI: Vesper orchestrates the AI CLI you already pay for — Claude Code, opencode, codex, gemini — and never holds an API key of its own.
HOW
A single Bun host process runs independent automation pipelines side by side — vault, storage, CLI orchestration, and an IPC surface. It shells out to your authenticated CLI via Bun.spawn; the only secrets it stores are pipeline-side (e.g. a GitHub token) in the macOS Keychain — never LLM credentials.
IMPACT
Zero per-call billing and zero stored provider keys by design — you reuse the CLI subscription you already have. Public and open-source.
Founder Engineer of Summon, a multitenant DAO platform with an AI governance copilot and the Summon MCP server.
HOW
RAG pipeline against on-chain proposals + forum threads, exposed to non-technical admins. Firecrawl-driven AI theming generates branded surfaces per tenant. Cross-VM rewards contracts target EVM, Solana, and Move from one source of truth.
IMPACT
100+ smart contracts deployed across three VMs. The Summon MCP server is one of the earliest production MCP integrations for DAO governance.
A simulated terminal, not a live agent or a preview of quitereason.ai.
omar@mcp — claude-haiku-4.5 — 80×24● connected
// click a command above to run a sample tool call
✓ session established · 14 tools registered
// 03 Research
AI Research.
Machine learning & deep learning.
From datasets and training dynamics to evaluation. Explore the Transformer, then follow a single neuron through forward pass, backpropagation and a parameter update.
LoRA · QLoRA · Fine-tuning
Model adaptation: LoRA trains low-rank adapters; QLoRA combines a quantized base model with trainable LoRA adapters. Full fine-tuning updates the base weights. Dataset quality and evaluation matter in every approach.
LLM / TRAINING LAB
Pretrain
Interactive illustration · not live training
Simplified Transformer, bottom to top: embeddings, multi-head self-attention, feed-forward network and output projection. Residual connections, normalization and repeated blocks are omitted. Directional signals illustrate training; no actual LLM training or inference runs here.
Output
Feed-forward
Self-attention
Embeddings
Forward → loss → backward → update
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From data to a deployed model.
What happens
Predict the next token: forward pass → softmax cross-entropy → backward gradients → optimizer update.
Recommended route
Prefer an existing base, or continued pretraining for a domain. Scratch pretraining needs substantial justified data and compute.
Check before moving on
Plan batches, accumulation and learning-rate schedules; track validation loss and save recoverable checkpoints.
Evaluation is continuous. Alignment is optional. Deployment feeds the next iteration.
Notes on MCP server design, reliable agents and model behavior. More to share soon.
// 04 TRADING
Trading Systems.
Spot, perpetuals & prediction markets.
Low-latency architecture: sequenced ring buffers, in-memory order books, risk checks and matching engines. Explore how the market lifecycle changes without conflating matching with settlement.
Illustrative architecture — not a live exchange or Edel system diagram.
Sequenced input passes pre-match checks into an in-memory order book and matching engine, then emits execution and settlement events. Journal and replay branch from sequenced input; durability policy depends on the design.
Sole engineer at 0xMonaco — built the entire stack: a low-latency matching engine, the admin API, the Rust backend, the Solidity smart contracts, and an L2 to post settlements on-chain. Owned AWS CDK infrastructure across three environments.
HOW
Rust core for the matching engine with a deterministic order book and parity replay against the chain. Solidity contracts plus a dedicated L2 to settle trades on-chain. Admin API and ops surfaces. AWS CDK stacks deployed across dev / staging / prod, including pipelines and observability. MCP tool surface exposes order placement, market stats, and risk to Claude-driven agents.
IMPACT
~300 μs pre-confirmation, ~3 ms full SPOT round-trip, 12.5k TPS sustained on internal benchmarks.
Founder Engineer of the LemonCash exchange backend — order routing, custody, fiat rails, KYC/AML.
HOW
Node + TypeScript services, Postgres + Redis, idempotent withdrawal pipeline, internal HSM integration. Designed the matching layer that survived a 40× user spike during launch.
IMPACT
Backbone for one of LATAM's largest crypto-fiat onramps; team of 4 → 30 within the first year.
TypeScriptNodePostgresRedisAWS
// 05 WEB3
Web3.
Smart contracts, protocols & integrations.
Illustrative contract / ledger / event flow.
Contract execution connects to ledger state; emitted events feed application integrations. A conceptual view, not a claim of universal chain architecture.
Non-transferable tokens for governance roles, contributor reputation, and game-state ownership. Defines a minimal standard with revocation, expiration, and on-chain attestations.
Block Update Digests: Membership Proofs Without a Global State Tree
Authored with Cody Littley and Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa. BUDs are an incremental authenticated data structure that scales membership proofs with per-block write volume rather than total state size — no global state trie on the critical path.