Hi, I'm Erik 👋

💻 Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in fintech, APIs, and distributed systems.
🎶 Former professional opera singer (Zurich Opera, Salzburg Festival, San Francisco Opera).
🚀 Passionate about open source, AI/LLM infrastructure, and developer productivity tools.

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🔧 Recent OSS Contributions

• Fix lifecycle hooks in openai-agents-python
  → Added proper on_llm_start / on_llm_end hooks across streaming & non-streaming paths, plus full test coverage.
• Actively exploring contributions around AI tooling, caching, and API design.

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💡 Current Projects

• Needle → semantic search over Fortune 50 earnings calls (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone).
• Bucket → AI-powered second brain for tasks/notes (Next.js, Supabase, Clerk).
• Various distributed cache and ingestion pipeline prototypes.

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🌐 Connect

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✨ Always open to collaborations on AI infra, open source tools, and creative side projects.