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Dan Monahan

Engineering leader. Ex-Amazon Software Development Manager (10 years, up to 34 engineers across 3 teams), most recently VP of Technology at Sigo Seguros. I build AI-native engineering organizations, and I still ship.

My focus is AI on both sides: embedding it into products (RAG, agentic systems, voice agents) and using it to transform how engineering teams build software. The projects below are shipped end-to-end with AI-assisted development, spanning systems-level C, Go services, Python AI pipelines, Swift/iOS apps, and TypeScript front-ends, with a bias toward local-first tools you can run and audit yourself.


Shipped products

lens — multi-agent AI audit engine, founded and built solo, live and taking paying customers.

  • 200+ checks across 26 dimensions of a codebase and a live site (security, performance, reliability, supply chain, cloud cost, accessibility, SEO) — one reasoning agent per dimension, grounded in deterministic scanners, every finding cross-verified by multiple frontier models to cut false positives
  • Also ships as an MCP server, so the audit runs inline in Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf before the PR opens
  • One audit produces two reports (plain-English for founders, engineer-grade for the team), a CycloneDX/SPDX SBOM, and a prioritized fix-it roadmap

Live: lens.supersmall.ai · sample report

Panorama — turns an iPhone into a spherical-panorama camera, a modern personal rebuild of the Photosynth experience.

  • Guided ARKit sweep auto-captures frames and corrects for the phone's own tracking error
  • Stitches into a seamless 360° image on-device with a custom Metal GPU stitcher
  • Fully local: no cloud, no accounts, no backend, nothing collected

App Store: Panorama: Spherical Camera

Kunkun — Japanese grammar-checking SaaS, built and run solo: Grammarly for Japanese.

  • Context-aware corrections: politeness level, JLPT focus (N5–N1), and writer mode (learner vs. native) all shape the AI's response, with a plain-language explanation attached to every fix, not just the fix itself
  • One backend, three surfaces — website, Chrome extension, Google Docs/Slides add-on — all reading live subscription state from the same API
  • Go Lambda on AWS Bedrock (Claude/Nova) for inference, Firebase auth, Stripe subscriptions

Live: kunkun.io

Gaijin Smash — bilingual (EN/JA) direct-to-consumer streetwear brand: real Japanese slogans with proper cultural context, not Google Translate.

  • AI content pipeline (image generation, model photography, copy) with human review as the quality gate before anything goes live
  • Built solo end-to-end: storefront, checkout, CloudFront-backed asset pipeline, admin dashboard

Live: gaijin-smash.net

All four are proprietary, closed source (source not public).


Open-source projects

Project What it is Stack
corpus Ask natural-language questions over your own notes, PDFs, and docs. Hybrid semantic + keyword search with auto-tuned fusion, multi-hop reference expansion, a retrieval eval harness with a CI gate, and a 7-tool MCP server for Claude Code. Storage, index, search, and re-ranking are local; embeddings call your chosen provider. pip install corpus-rag Python RAG MCP
pdfcracker Recover passwords from your own encrypted PDFs on macOS. All encryption revisions (R2 to R6), 15+ attack modes, GPU acceleration via Metal, ARM NEON SIMD, distributed cracking. Zero dependencies. C Metal SIMD
imageclust Clusters photos by what they're about, not just how they look. CLIP ViT-L/14 embeddings, Ward hierarchical clustering, and Ollama-generated labels. Entirely on-device. Go React CLIP
cleancut Drop in a video, get back a cleaned .mp4: profanity muted, explicit scenes cut. Layered local AI stack (Whisper, Ollama, NudeNet + LLaVA, HF audio models). Every cut is auditable. Python Whisper Vision
claude-code-skills 12 drop-in Claude Code skills for dev workflow and AWS ops. Auto-discover your AWS resources at runtime, no config files. Tooling AWS DX
TPSGenerator Java load tester for HTTP APIs: 12+ traffic patterns, lock-free HdrHistogram metrics, circuit breaker, real-time resource monitoring. Pairs with TPSGenerator-Server. Java Concurrency

Background

Amazon (Software Development Manager, ~10 years), LTK, and Sigo Seguros (VP of Technology). At Sigo I led the shift to an AI-native engineering org, roughly 5x daily code output with median PR merge time down 77% and merge quality holding steady, and shipped 6 customer-facing products in 10 months on a 7-engineer team: three Spanish-language voice AI agents, WhatsApp quoting, a broker management platform connecting 15 carriers, and a customer block-list service. Conversion went from 3.5% to 12.9% and the business reached a $1M ARR run-rate.

Trilingual: English, Spanish, and Japanese (JLPT N2). Speaking on production AI agents at ELC and SuperSmall in 2026.


Find me on LinkedIn.

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  1. imageclust imageclust Public

    Clusters your photos by what they're about, not just how they look — CLIP ViT-L/14 embeddings, Ward hierarchical clustering, and Ollama-generated labels. Go backend + React frontend, entirely on-de…

    Go 1

  2. pdfcracker pdfcracker Public

    Recover passwords from encrypted PDFs on macOS — all encryption revisions (R2–R6), 15+ attack modes (brute force, dictionary, rules, Markov, PRINCE, and more), GPU acceleration via Metal, ARM NEON …

    C 1

  3. claude-code-skills claude-code-skills Public

    12 drop-in Claude Code skills for dev workflow and AWS ops — code review, pre-push gates, CloudFormation, Lambda deploy, DynamoDB debug, Cognito admin, and more. AWS skills auto-discover your resou…

  4. cleancut cleancut Public

    Drop in a video, get back a cleaned .mp4 — profanity muted, explicit scenes cut, subtitles softened. Layered local AI stack: Whisper STT, Ollama LLMs, NudeNet + LLaVA for vision, HuggingFace AST fo…

    Python

  5. TPSGenerator TPSGenerator Public

    Java load tester for HTTP APIs — 12+ traffic patterns (stable, ramp-up, spike, Markov, custom), parameterized requests, lock-free HdrHistogram metrics, circuit breaker, and real-time resource monit…

    Java