Yakoob Ahmad KOOB

Go, HTMX, Rust (desktop), Shell, Postgres, pgvector, Docker, vLLM, haproxy, nginx

• Stood up SmartAI - the OS company agents live in. Shared memory, versioned playbook, gated tools, named goals. One Go binary. Dark factory runs the work.
• Control Tower is the god's-eye view: live runtime visibility for high-level decisions.
• Turned Snowflake into a live warehouse Goal: scheduled ingest into PostgreSQL, delta updates, intelligent content merge — not a one-off dump.
• Post-trained smaller self-hosted LLMs with human-in-the-middle RL feedback; so they become experts at the organization's domain work. Eat the token cost once and own the models.
• Added intelligent routing so requests hit the right model based on what the user actually needs.
• Used customer data signals coming through the system to surface churn risk earlier.
• Custom-built a graph of the team brain with a realtime heat map that holds millions of nodes without falling over.
• Stacked it on Postgres + pgvector for retrieval, with Go services and an HTMX UI. Rust for the desktop client.

Key achievement. SmartAI. One Go binary. Agents live in it. Dark factory runs the Goals. Control tower is the god's-eye. Smaller self-hosted models get better at the company's work because humans sit in the loop. First use case: spot at-risk accounts to protect margin and cut churn. Dark factory is how the next use case ships without standing up a new system.

Java/Groovy, Rust (egui, OpenGL/Metal), Go, Python, CUDA, JavaScript, Shell, HTMX, MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, pgvector, Redis, Akka/STOMP/WebSockets, GStreamer, FFmpeg, NDI, ComfyUI, vLLM, llama.cpp, ONNX, OSC, DMX/Art-Net, Hue, WLED, Docker, nginx, HAProxy, Tomcat

• Designed and shipped REACT, a patent-pending real-time audio-driven visual system for DJs, venues, and festivals.
• Built the core product stack in Java/Groovy with supporting services in Rust, Go, and Python.
• Stood up the internal AI ops layer — shared knowledge base, orchestrators, and specialized sub-agents so the team can actually run on it.
• Post-trained local LLMs so token spend is one-time, then routed requests to the right model based on the job.
• Used Postgres/pgvector + customer signals to improve support and cut churn risk.
• Open-sourced REACT (Apache-2.0) and the Rust libraries built for it: Pro DJ Link, Ableton Link tempo, and OLA/DMX. github.com/Compellerai
• I run the full loop myself: product, infra, deployment, and revenue.

Key achievement. Founded Compeller. Built REACT (patent pending) — real-time audio-to-visuals for live entertainment. Built the company end to end: SaaS video pipeline and REACT desktop. The internal AI ops layer later evolved into the agentic operating system.

• Developed a highly concurrent application using the Akka framework and a Finite State Machine DSL, scaling system capacity to manage thousands of simultaneous inbound/outbound phone calls and messages.
• Implemented a high-performance Netty pipeline to interface directly with telecommunications hardware, converting raw hardware events into domain-specific messages for a Java-based Akka Actor System.
• Designed and implemented an SMS / MMS Gateway supporting multiple carrier protocols, facilitating rapid integration with new telecom providers and isolating core systems from upstream changes.
• Led the migration of a massive Java/Spring/Hibernate CRM application to Groovy and Grails, drastically reducing technical debt and exponentially increasing feature delivery speed.
• Designed a real-time Risk and Fraud management engine integrated into the account lifecycle, significantly reducing fraud exposure and protecting company margins.
• Served as Technical Liaison and Scrum Master, decomposing complex product epics into balanced Agile sprints to optimize stakeholder priorities.

Key achievement. Built Call Control for the largest reaching PSTN on the planet — a system that actually decides how calls move, route, and stay up at scale.

• Architected and developed mission-critical features for VISION (Video Image and Sound Inventory Online), customizing asset management workflows specifically for the Home Entertainment division.
• Provisioned and managed development and staging environments utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V, empowering engineering teams to quickly clone, test, and safely deploy code updates.

Key achievement. Owned mission-critical pieces of VISION for Home Entertainment — customized asset management so the division could actually move titles through inventory without the system getting in the way.

• Created a highly concurrent ColdFusion and MS-SQL engine to process thousands of simultaneous national ATM check-cashing transactions across H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt locations.
• Built a real-time cash management and transaction monitoring dashboard to forecast penetration, audit incoming vendor data, and dispatch armored carriers dynamically.
• Engineered a visual query-building wizard for complex reporting, a localized site ticket tracker, and a secured Tax Office administrative portal.

Key achievement. Built the engine that moved $500M in national ATM check-cashing transactions during peak season (3 months every year) for H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and independent tax offices.