I build production AI products end to end, on Rails.
For three years I worked on Zippy, Zipline's flagship AI assistant: 50+ retail brands, 1,000,000+ conversations, 2,000,000+ pages indexed. Before that, 15+ years of Rails, SRE, and DevOps: precision agriculture, event ticketing, weather infrastructure, and a fair amount of yelling at CSS.
I'm open to new roles. Senior or Staff, full-stack or AI systems, remote.
- Kormos — my own agent runtime. Provider-agnostic, MCP client, tool dispatch, composable context enrichers, scheduled intents, voice over Twilio. I run several agents on it daily, installed in a couple places now... to be open sourced eventually?
- Hitherto — a spoiler-aware story timeline viewer. Character world-lines through story time, revealed only as far as you've read.
- VCV Rack modules — Eurorack in software, because the hardware rig wasn't enough.
- 🤖 AI in production — RAG, agents, tool calling, evals, and the messy reality of shipping ML features to people who don't care that it's ML
- 💎 Ruby & Rails — home turf since ~2009
- 🎵 Music production — electronic music as JUDYIO. I also started a weird kind of
- 🛠️ Building things — software, hardware, and once founded a hackerspace
- Zippy — the production RAG assistant described above
- Kanina — RabbitMQ messaging for Rails
- Artful.ly — open-source event ticketing and CRM (Rails engine)
- 🌐 clinton.judy.io — resume
- 🌐 judy.io — portfolio and writing
- 💼 linkedin.com/in/clintonjudy
- 📧 clinton@judy.io
- 📍 State College, PA