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A Concierge Engineer for the House
Every evening ended with the same three questions. Now the living-room wall answers them, and nothing about it leaves the house.
I build the layer that says what data and agents are allowed to do.
Twelve years of it at Google: data security frameworks, knowledge graphs, and the plumbing that makes enterprise data usable by AI without making it dangerous. I’m writing that up now, and building a piece of it in the open.
| Now | Leading AI-ready data at Google: the contracts, governance and knowledge graph that make enterprise data usable by agents, delivered through the enterprise data platform. |
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| Off the clock | A multi-agent harness and a small policy engine to govern it. Running, biking, milling walnut, pouring epoxy, and the tandoor. |
| Based | San Francisco Bay Area |
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