Hi, I'm Max 👋

🌏 Miami ↔ Ubud ↔ nomad | 🤖 AI automation builder

AI systems engineer focused on evaluation, reliability, retrieval, and tool-use. I build deterministic wrappers around LLMs, hybrid RAG over structured data, and reproducible eval harnesses.

🌐 maxpetrusenko.com – Tech consulting, somatic practices, and writing at the intersection of AI and consciousness.

Current Projects

• 🤖 OpenClaw experiment – I let an AI control my Mac for 3 weeks. Here's what I learned about trust.
• 🧮 AI Math Tutor – Open source Nerdy style AI math tutor with realtime voice, avatars, TTS, STT, and pluggable LLMs.
• 🚢 Ship – Treasury built project management and issue tracking app. I audited and hardened the fork across type safety, performance, accessibility, and tests.
• 👻 Ghostfolio – Open source wealth management app for stocks, ETFs, and crypto; think self hosted Empower for portfolio tracking.
• 🤝 Realtime Collab Board – Multiplayer whiteboard MVP with live sync, Firebase backend, and Playwright backed QA.
• 🧹 Unfollow X – Chrome extension for authority curation on X/Twitter. Clean feeds, safe ops. (Product Hunt featured)
• 🎵 SoundVista – Audio exploration MVP with clean UI and fast search
• 📝 maxpetrusenko.com – Next.js site with Medium sync, GEO-optimized articles, somatic event pages
• 🔧 filemaker-mcp-server – MCP bridge for FileMaker to AI agents
• 🧰 skills – Curated local skill registry for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents.
• 📏 llm-eval-notes – Public LLM evaluation artifacts for hallucination, brittleness, structured output, tool use, and safety.
• 🧠 hybrid-rag-structured – Hybrid RAG over Postgres + pgvector with benchmarked retrieval quality.
• 🛡️ deterministic-llm-service – Production-grade LLM gateway with retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and metrics.
• 🏛️ LegacyLens – Citation-grounded RAG for legacy COBOL codebases with dependency mapping and fallback UX.
• 🧘 Mindfold – Somatic education & energy work events in Miami

What I Build

• AI-powered internal tools and automation systems
• Full-stack SaaS MVPs to production releases
• API integrations and workflow orchestration
• Secure-by-default systems for regulated and high-trust environments

Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
• AI/Agents: Claude Code, OpenAI API, n8n, MCP servers
• Frontend: Next.js, React, Vue.js, Tailwind
• Backend: Node.js, Express, FileMaker (Claris)
• Infra: Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, AWS
• Tools: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub

Latest Writing

• OpenClaw: I Let This AI Control My Mac for 3 Weeks – AI autonomy and trust
• Automate Your Entire Internet Life for $20/Month – Claude for Chrome vs Zapier
• The Illusion of Scale: Why Your LLM's Context Window Is Lying to You – Context limits in practice
• The Smartphone That Makes Police Officers Sweat – GrapheneOS privacy (249K views)
• Unleash Your Inner Wizard: Claude Skills – Claude Code guide (8.7K views)
• The God Button: Why 40 Scientists Just Begged Us to Stop Playing Creator – AI ethics and consciousness

Services

• Claude Code Setup – Sub-agent configuration, custom skills, workflow integration
• n8n Automation – Workflow design, API integrations, custom nodes
• ChatGPT Integration – API setup, prompt engineering, RAG implementation
• Product & UX – Shape the right thing to build before writing code

Availability: Remote worldwide · In-person Miami FL · Seasonal Ubud Bali

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Philosophy

"Ship beats perfect" – I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them. Currently exploring how AI agents change software development, and how somatic practices change our relationship with technology.

How I Can Help

• AI-first product builds (MVP to production)
• OpenClaw setup and operator workflows
• Agentic coding pipelines (Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, MiniMax M2.5)
• n8n automations and API integrations
• Full-stack TypeScript systems with realtime architecture
• Healthcare-aware integrations (HIPAA context, Twilio, Kno2)