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Where the day-to-day pioneering happens: bringing AI into DevOps and developer workflows — the parts that measurably move delivery, not the demos.
stage 01 / commitpassed
Adrian Dantas
Product engineer who ships. Now pioneering AI in DevOps to build what’s next — adopting what measurably moves delivery, and dropping what doesn’t.
stage 02 / buildpassed
26 years of shipping real products.
Before it was AI, it was product. I’ve spent my career turning ideas into software that ships and holds up in production — designing systems, leading engineers, and owning the path from first commit to what real users depend on.
Deep technical work paired with product judgment: what to build, what to cut, and how to make delivery boring in the best way — automated, self-serve, and reliable enough that teams stop thinking about it.
stage 03 / verify2 promoted · 2 rejected
I keep what proves out. I cut what doesn’t.
New tech earns its place by evidence, not by being new. This is how I run the frontier — not AI for AI’s sake.
Give agents a real harness, not guesswork
MCPs that feed coding agents compliant CI/CD pipelines and searchable platform & SDLC knowledge — so they build on the org’s real conventions, not plausible guesses. promoted
Make the design system AI-ready the same way
An MCP that hands agents proven, accessible components instead of generating UI from scratch. verified
Chasing every new model on its leaderboard
I run Claude Code, opencode, and Pi on real work and keep the setup that ships — not the one that tops a benchmark. rejected
Swapping the stack for hype
I test frontier models hands-on, including open ones — most “SOTA” gains vanish outside the benchmark. rejected
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stage 04 / shipin progress
Now pioneering AI in DevOps — to build what’s next.
PrimeDX
My studio for launching products — the vehicle for turning what proves out on the frontier into things people can actually use.
stage 05 / deployarmed
Let’s ship something.
Building a product, or bringing AI into how your teams deliver? Start a conversation — no pitch, usually a quick reply.