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.

What stayed with me was the range of problems. Since then I have worked inside other people's systems as well as my own, with founders, engineers, and teams trying to make AI useful without letting it flatten the work around it.

My work covers AI product building and repair, personal AI workflows for founders and independent builders, and internal operations workflows for companies. I follow current models, tools, methods, and research, then review existing work when they make a materially better approach practical.