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Philip Simon.
Cape Town · Get in touch
Applied AI
One year designing AI systems, five months shipping production infrastructure, ≈800K LoC. Building personal sovereignty.
Teaching
Ten years teaching English, 18,000 classroom hours — remote, from wherever I was living that year. Ireland, the Philippines, South Africa, others. Business professionals, general adult learners, teenagers and children. Managed teachers and language consultants.
Learning in Progress
Autodidactic — fine-tuning open-weight LLMs (LoRA, full-precision BF16),
multi-corpus RAG with vector retrieval and cross-encoder reranking,
multi-agent orchestration via MCP, sovereign inference stack on owned silicon,
voice and multimodal ingestion pipelines, production ops (CI/CD, observability, secrets).
BA Philosophy — UNISA. Currently pondering the work of Carl Schmitt & Hannah Arendt by day and Leibniz by night.
