Here are some of my recent commits and projects.

Challenges authored for Datacurve's ShipD platform, each accepted after automated checks, solver runs and human review; three are included here as examples, with the hidden tests and reference solutions withheld to protect Datacurve's proprietary benchmark material, and each folder records exactly what was removed:

• instagram/libcst: Bind match capture patterns and comprehension walrus targets in scope metadata
• coleifer/peewee: Add ROLLUP, FETCH FIRST and TABLESAMPLE support to the query builder
• tobymao/sqlglot: Support postgres session statements and the @ and ^@ operators

Code merged into 97 projects, 127 pull requests in all; every one is linked in contributions.md.

• NousResearch/hermes-agent — 12 merged commits; credited as a contributor in the v2026.6.19, v2026.7.1 and v2026.8.3 release notes
• 86Box/86Box — 8 merged: softpower: Fix the power-off delay spinner range overflowing int16_t; Voodoo: Fix nccTable0 Q2 writes landing in the I2 coefficient; XTA: Restore the missing break in the WDXT-150 case; Config: Fix crash loading a config without a mouse_type key; net_plip: Fix misplaced parenthesis disabling the transmit bounds check; Fix machines and BIOS entries missing on case-sensitive filesystems; GUS: Fix the ADC sample rate divisor missing the +2 bias; MIDI: Fix input queue overflow hang and broken real-time bytes
• laude-institute/headlong — 3 merged: traj: recursive tail and cat return the whole tree, in order; ci: point the smoke container's apt at the Azure mirror; traj: formatted tail and cat return the steps --filter matches
• QwenLM/Qwen-MM-Plugins — 3 merged: fix(shared): read input_audio.format from a URL's path, not its query string; fix(shared): normalize box corner order before drawing; fix(core): apply EXIF orientation in read_image, crop and draw_bbox
• boyter/scc — 2 merged: fix(asp.net): correct the server side comment terminator; fix(dart): count single quoted string literals
• ClickHouse/clickhouse-go — 2 merged: fix(chcol): return true from HasType when the Variant carries a type; fix(churl): validate each host of a comma separated DSN authority
• ekzhang/jax-js — 2 merged: Fix copysign() dropping the magnitude when y is zero; Fix sign() returning 1 for NaN
• fastify/fast-json-stringify — 2 merged: fix: drop unmatched properties when additionalProperties is false; fix: apply the else branch when a schema has if and else but no then
• greyhaven-ai/autocontext — 2 merged: fix: default dataclass metadata to a dict, not a pydantic FieldInfo; fix: mirror every compaction ledger append, not only large chunks
• huggingface/sentence-transformers — 2 merged: [fix] Write the sparsity CSV columns once in three sparse evaluators; [docs] Describe the MarginMSE target as the signed margin
• meriyah/meriyah — 2 merged: fix(parser): restrict continue targets to iteration statement labels; fix(parser): parse / after an await identifier as division
• psd-tools/psd-tools — 2 merged: fix: keep the bytes after a Hue/Saturation block's range records (#645); fix: replace the layer at an index instead of inserting before it
• python-attrs/cattrs — 2 merged: Sort extra keys when formatting ForbiddenExtraKeysError; Escape the index note when structuring heterogeneous tuples
• quinn-rs/quinn — 2 merged: [0.11.x] proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length; proto: reject transport parameters with a mismatched length
• raysan5/raylib — 2 merged: [rtext] Fix TextToPascal()/TextToCamel() truncating text after a separator; [rtext] Fix TextSplit() reading past its buffer on text of 1024 bytes or more
• The-PR-Agent/pr-agent — 2 merged: fix(diff): compare bad file extensions case-insensitively; fix(bitbucket): send inline comment ranges with start_to
• wemake-services/django-modern-rest — 2 merged: Fix q weights in Accept header parsing; Strip optional whitespace when splitting headers on ,

One merged pull request each: abema/go-mp4, agavra/tuicr, agentscope-ai/agentscope, akitaonrails/ai-memory, apache/answer, apache/datasketches-java, bitshifter/glam-rs, caronc/apprise, castorini/rank_llm, celery/kombu, chakra-ui/chakra-ui, changesets/changesets, charmbracelet/catwalk, crmne/spotifast, crossbeam-rs/crossbeam, dalathegreat/Battery-Emulator, deschler/django-modeltranslation, devitocodes/devito, Effect-TS/effect, elastio/bon, embassy-rs/embassy, evcxr/evcxr, expressjs/multer, floci-io/floci, foliojs/pdfkit, gbdev/rgbds, gdsfactory/gdsfactory, georust/rstar, go-goyave/goyave, gotenberg/gotenberg, hugohe3/ppt-master, hyparam/hyparquet, inducer/loopy, ishepard/pydriller, jhd3197/ServerKit, joncampbell123/dosbox-x, jundot/omlx, junhoyeo/tokscale, kenn-io/agentsview, kgateway-dev/kgateway, kubescape/kubescape, leookun/cursor-byok, libarchive/libarchive, magefree/mage, maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec, marin-community/marin, modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk, modelscope/ms-swift, mozilla/pontoon, noahbald/oxvg, nominal-io/instro, NousResearch/hermes-agent-self-evolution, NousResearch/wandb-rs, odygrd/quill, onnx/onnx, open-circle/valibot, openhab/openhab-addons, opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox, oras-project/oras, pacifio/atlas, pmndrs/koota, probe-rs/probe-rs, PyLabRobot/pylabrobot, quarkusio/quarkus, rust-diplomat/diplomat, srl-labs/containerlab, tconbeer/harlequin, Tencent/WeKnora, testem/testem, TimothyYe/godns, tombi-toml/tombi, uutils/coreutils, vadimdemedes/ink, velero-io/velero, vllm-project/vllm-omni, wshobson/agents, xintaofei/codeg, yoanbernabeu/grepai, zenstackhq/zenstack, zylon-ai/private-gpt.

The hermes-agent commits are also carried by 216 downstream copies and derivatives of that project (list).

• Compartment: Encrypted, fully offline agentic memory. One click install, GUI w/ memory map, all OS and agents. Superior memory creation, storage and retrieval. Python, Apache-2.0, with a docs site. Listed in Awesome-AI-Memory, Awesome-AI-Agents, Awesome-Agent-Memory, awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-mcp, toolsdk-mcp-registry.
• nuclear-computing: Nuclear compute (radiative compute) as an alternative computing substrate to electronic and quantum machines: one radioactive medium supplies power, logic, memory, and interconnect, enabling sealed portable computers that compute without external power.
• artificial-knowledge-collection-6.0: Knowledge of special interest to AI: nine datasets of concepts, relationships, constants and measurements, each one clean file, aligned into a single 544,279-node map, plus a reasoning benchmark. Artificial knowledge for artificial intelligence.

• MBA, University of Adelaide (now Adelaide University), 2024
• Google IT Support Professional Certificate
• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate
• Google Project Management Professional Certificate
• Library & Information Services, University of Adelaide and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
• Foundations of Finance, University of Cambridge
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Board Approved Member, Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW, since 2026
• National Member, National Seniors Australia, since 2025

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