Hi, I'm Aria

I started as a language person. Journalism, essays, stories, poems, research rabbit holes, and constant reading. Computer science did not feel like leaving that behind. It felt like picking up one more language.

Then language models arrived, and the language part and the machine part stopped feeling separate.

Since then, my career has been a sequence of frictions. I live with something until it annoys me enough to build a system around it, usually one that does the mechanical work so the person does not have to.

After my third startup, I spent months interviewing for AI engineer roles and doing over a dozen technicals. It accidentally became a tour through the industry's confusion: every company had a different idea of what AI work was supposed to be.

It was the range of problems that intrigued me, and that's when I decided to work as a consultant so I could work with more than just one problem at a time. Now I'm not just bringing my own projects. I've seen the shape of the questions other teams are asking too.

Now I work with founders, engineers, and teams trying to adapt to a world changing faster than anyone expected. AI engineer is the conventional title, AI implementation specialist is closer to the truth, and the language is still evolving. The human element only keeps getting more important, more of a premium. The thread is people. It always has been.