Software Engineer at Exa · San Francisco, CA
Hi, I’m Michael.
I like to solve problems.
I'm a software engineer at Exa in San Francisco, where we're building the search engine for AI. Before that I was a forward deployed engineer at SaxeCap, an AI private equity firm. I studied Applied Mathematics & Engineering at Queen's.
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Compile
2025AI news intelligence platform
Ingests 500+ articles a day, clusters them into stories, and builds a personalized feed with semantic search and tone-adjustable rewrites.
Mantis
2025Visual QA crawler for the web
A crawler that drives a site with Playwright and hands screenshots to a multimodal model to find visual bugs and accessibility issues that DOM-based tools miss.
Hack the North finalist · Best Developer Tool
Chameleon
2025Content adaptation agent
Turns articles and YouTube videos into platform-native posts for X and LinkedIn. Built in 24 hours; won Best AI Retrieval at HackAI Toronto.
HackAI Toronto · Best AI Retrieval
LLM Jailbreak Defense
2024 – 2025Mechanistic interpretability research
Steering refusal-related features inside a language model to make it more robust to jailbreak prompts. Co-authored paper published at CUCAI.
Published at CUCAI 2025