AI product engineer · Apple platforms · San Francisco

I build

Senior iOS Engineer with AI skills who's worked in R&D and enterprise, shipping production software across automotive, healthcare, and more.
Now I build with agents, Swift, and a sketchbook — and win hackathons doing it.

Constantly creating See the work
Romy Ilano, hand-drawn self-portrait
self-portrait, ink
  • Bell Labs · Member of Technical Staff
  • Production healthcare · EMR, med ordering, lab systems
  • Hackathon prize winner · Poiret Salon · Stanford AI Law
  • visionOS · ARKit · RealityKit
  • 382 public repos · Arctic Code Vault
  • Teaches generative AI at sudoroom

Major projects

  1. 01

    Comic Explain

    Studio · iPad + Web

    A client-side prototyping studio for educational manga explainers. Paste prose, get a whole-comic prompt bundle; author per-page prompts, preview live, copy out to any image model. Ingests arXiv and PubMed papers from event links through an SSRF-guarded server hop. Companion native app in SwiftUI.

    • Vite
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • SwiftUI
    • Vercel functions
    • Google Sign-In
    technical concepts → educational manga
  2. 02

    Poelove

    Language learning · VR

    Learn a language through its poetry instead of lesson plans. Read Pushkin and Akhmatova line by line with translations, vocabulary in context, and hand-drawn illustrations; select poems open in VR. Started with Russian; the pipeline is language-agnostic.

    • Web
    • visionOS
    • WebXR
    • Hand-drawn art
    Poelove project screenshot Pushkin, Akhmatova, my ink drawings

Hackathon Highlights

  1. 01

    Cuéntame

    Health · AI

    A patient-controlled, source-linked bilingual health hand-off. Show a doctor where it hurts on a 3D body map and carry your history across a language barrier. Vision model reads health-app screenshots into structured facts with per-fact confidence; text model translates to Spanish. Synthetic fixtures only, no real PHI.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Qwen2.5-VL 72B
    • Gemma 3
    • Nebius
    • AWS
    "tell me" — 3D pain map, bilingual
  2. 02

    Surf or Skate

    Agent-native · Hackathon

    Built in two days at the Agent Native Builders Hackathon at Cloudflare HQ. Answers "surf, skate, or bike?" by sending the question to eight independent agents that argue it out and land on one answer in about a second. Animated fleet diorama, live agent-to-agent stream, self-serve API with no signup.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cotal A2A
    • Vercel
    • Frozen event schema
    • XR diorama
    8 agents argue, one answer, ~1s
  • 03

    Poiret Salon

    Skills for creatives in a historical WWI drama in France · prize winner
  • 04

    Stanford AI Law

    Hackathon prize winner

Engineering + Product + UX

A decade across engineering, product, and design. The engineering part is the spine; the rest is why the things I ship look and feel finished.

← ask me about any of these

Research Bell Labs — Member of Technical Staff. The place that taught me what rigor looks like.
Healthcare Production clinical software — EMR, clinical workflows, medication ordering, lab systems. Regulated, on-call, real patients.
Spatial visionOS · ARKit · RealityKit — Diorama XR, Conference 360, Model Mover. Small talent pool, I am in it.
AI, proven Hackathon prizes — Poiret Salon (Claude skills pipeline), Stanford AI Law Hackathon (Llama 2), Cloudflare Agent Native Builders.
Product PM & PMM before engineering — Product management for SMS & payments at Hands-On Mobile; product marketing at Xumii Mobile.
Community sudoroom · iOS study group — Teaches generative AI at an Oakland hackerspace. 382 public repos, Arctic Code Vault contributor.
Automotive iOS at Drivemode and Mercedes Benz R & D — Shipped driver-facing mobile software where latency and distraction have consequences.

Art Projects

  1. 01

    miromi

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    Marker illustration from miromi.com [TODO: source copy]

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Let's build
something real.