System Online
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Melbourne
Baldove

Systems Architect

Loaded_Modules

Core_System

RustZigGleamC/C++GoNixLinuxRabbitMQ

App_Layer

TypeScriptReactNext.jsKotlinSwiftPython

Architecture

MicroservicesDDDDeep LearningEvent-Driven12-Factor
System_Foundations
  • Math Academy (University Mathematics)
  • Nand2Tetris (Computer Architecture)
  • DeepLearning.ai (Deep Learning Specialization)
ID: 4D_42_2E_32_35
ENV: PRODUCTION
BLD: NIX_FLAKE

Melbourne Baldove

Rigorous systems.
Beautiful stories.

I sit at the intersection of hard engineering and product intuition. Great products feel inevitable, but they are built on deliberate, rigorous choices. I ensure that every line of low-level code directly supports a high-level human need.

01 / The Journey

Haeru

Co-founder & Solo Engineer
2025 — 2026

As co-founder and solo engineer, leading a cross-functional team of 6, I architected and built the system end to end: a Gleam/OTP platform, a multi-stage RabbitMQ worker pipeline, and a knowledge-graph memory layer whose graph algorithms detect the structural gaps in a user's life story, all on reproducible Nix-managed infrastructure.

Inside 'Brain', the agentic core, I built a production tool-calling loop with confirmation gates, multi-hop Steiner-tree retrieval, and a 90x graph-query optimization over the knowledge graph. On top of it the product shipped realtime voice chat, an insight engine mining behavioral signals at daily, weekly, and monthly cadences, proactive nudges, auto-generated 'Lore' character profiles, and daily reflections and weekly narrative postcards.

I instrumented the product in PostHog, from standard funnels to bespoke metrics testing the product thesis, and made the call to shut it down in 2026 when the data showed no market fit.

Red Airship

Fullstack Consultant
2021 — 2023

Contributed to the fullstack development of a critical healthcare portal using Next.js, building both backend and frontend components to enhance functionality.

Engineered new features for OCBC Bank's high-traffic consumer and business mobile banking applications, production systems serving millions of users.

Hey You

Senior Software Engineer
2018 — Present

Founded the engineering org's agentic AI initiative: built a unified agent workspace that makes 54 production repos, runtime maps, infrastructure, and logs legible to AI coding agents from a single root, and drove team-wide adoption through its launch and engineering brown bags.

Architected and maintained AWS Lambda microservices and backend features for legacy PHP systems.

Proposed a full Android platform rewrite (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) with data-backed analysis, then drove the initiative, raising the Play Store rating from 2.7 to 4.7 and reducing crash rates by over 90%.

Also led the rewrite of the merchant-facing application from React Native to native Android, significantly improving maintainability and merchant satisfaction, while supporting the iOS consumer app.

OWTO

Android Developer, then Senior Systems Analyst
2017 — 2018

Designed the surge pricing algorithm and the end-to-end software architecture for both the backend and mobile ecosystems, including realtime systems for driver tracking, live trip streaming, and dynamic fare calculation.

Developed both the Owto (Passenger) and Owto Driver applications on top of that architecture.

02 / Selected Works

A.U.R.A.

Current Focus

Autonomous Unified Runtime Agent: an always-on personal AI agent runtime built on Gleam/OTP. Supervised actors handle memory consolidation, domain-partitioned knowledge, and 'flares', long-running coding agent sessions deployed and supervised via Discord.

Stack: Gleam, Erlang/OTP, SQLite

Haeru

Distributed System

An AI life-story companion. A knowledge-graph memory layer detects the structural gaps in your story, and an autonomous pipeline turns each day into reflections and weekly narrative postcards so users feel their life as a story.

Stack: Gleam, Python, FalkorDB, RabbitMQ, SwiftUI, Nix

Black Swan Radar

Data Pipeline

A local-first sourcing engine that scores technical outliers from GitHub: collector daemons and a multi-provider LLM pipeline with structured outputs and deterministic fallback scoring.

Stack: Gleam, SQLite, Nix

Jack Compiler

Compiler

A two-tier compiler for the Jack language implemented in Rust, exploring computing from assembler to VM.

Raytracer

Graphics Engine

A 3D renderer built in Zig to simulate light physics. Implements vector math from scratch to produce realistic shadows, reflections, and refractions.

Transformers

R&D

Built a Transformer in pure NumPy to demystify the 'black box' powering modern AI.

OCBC Digital

Mobile

The official mobile banking platform for one of Asia's largest banks. Engineered high-performance features for millions of daily users.

Hey You Consumer

Mobile

A food order-ahead app. Led the native Android rewrite using Jetpack Compose, improving performance and user retention.

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