Founding Engineer & Product Lead
Zero-to-One AI Startup
Done. Life·Sydney, Australia
Dec 2024 – Present
Synopsis
Leading the end-to-end product lifecycle for an AI-first productivity platform that automates 'Life Admin' by converting unstructured emails, PDFs, and images into structured calendar events.
The Making Of
🎯 The Challenge
Users drown in 'Life Admin'—bills, appointments, event invites buried in emails. Manually copying dates to calendars is tedious and error-prone. The AI challenge: LLMs frequently 'hallucinated' dates, calculating relative dates from their training data cut-off instead of the current date.
💡 The Solution
Engineered a 'Context Anchor' injection system that dynamically injects the current ISO timestamp and day of week at inference time. Built a 'Split-Path Engine' to route traffic between low-latency text models and high-compute vision models based on payload analysis. Implemented aggressive 'Junk Filters' to discard non-actionable attachments (<5KB signatures/icons).
🚀 The Impact
Completely solved the temporal hallucination issue. The 'Forward-to-Email' feature became the app's most-used ingress method. Reduced API costs by filtering 90% of junk attachments. Successfully launched on App Store within 8-week timeline.
Key Contributions
- 1Architected a serverless, event-driven backend to automate complex 'Life Admin' workflows for consumers
- 2Engineered a custom traffic router that dynamically directs payloads between low-latency text models and high-compute vision models, reducing processing overhead by ~40% and response times by ~70%
- 3Solved temporal hallucination issues in LLMs by injecting dynamic context anchors and Chain-of-Thought protocols
- 4Led the end-to-end product lifecycle from Zero-to-One, managing full stack & navigating App Store compliance
Key Metrics
Skills & Technologies
- AWS LambdaServerless Compute
- OpenAI GPT-4oAI Engine
- OpenAI VisionImage Processing
- Make.comWorkflow Orchestration
- AdaloMobile Frontend
- DynamoDBDatabase
- IAPHUBIn-App Purchases
Quick Info
- Company
- Done. Life
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Type
- Founding Role
- Duration
- 8 weeks (Zero-to-One)
- Complexity
- Principal