# Benjamin Shyong

> Operator-builder in San Francisco. Ships consumer hardware at scale (Staff TPM at Meta, ex-Apple) and builds agentic infrastructure: AI agents, MCP servers, LoRA fine-tunes, and a multi-node home inference fleet.

This site is agent-readable. Structured access:

- [MCP server](https://benjaminshyong.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP endpoint with 4 tools (search_projects, search_hackathons, get_resume, ask). Human docs at [/mcp/info](https://benjaminshyong.com/mcp/info).
- [Full content corpus](https://benjaminshyong.com/corpus.json): every project, hackathon, post, and the bio as one JSON file.
- [identity.txt](https://benjaminshyong.com/identity.txt): who he is, voice, and AI-use terms (identitytxt.org convention).

## Pages

- [About](https://benjaminshyong.com/about): background and operating philosophy
- [Resume](https://benjaminshyong.com/resume): full work history, print-ready
- [Forward Deployment](https://benjaminshyong.com/deploy): paid advisory and implementation work for real-world AI systems
- [Book an Operator Call](https://benjaminshyong.com/book): paid 45-minute Operator Call intake
- [Remote Systems Deep Dive](https://benjaminshyong.com/deepdive): paid 90-minute remote systems review intake
- [Enterprise Onsite Assessment](https://benjaminshyong.com/deploy): paid onsite workflow assessment request
- [Forward Deployment Sprint](https://benjaminshyong.com/sprint): application for hands-on deployment sprint
- [Now](https://benjaminshyong.com/now): what he is focused on right now
- [Writing](https://benjaminshyong.com/writing): essays and build logs ([RSS](https://benjaminshyong.com/rss.xml))

## Projects

- [AgentMES](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/agent-mes): Manufacturing execution system for autonomous agents. OpenAI's 7-stage AI-Native Engineering Workflow as a bipartite state machine, agents do throughput work, humans own the judgment gates.
- [Conclave](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/conclave): Personal AI mastermind council. Seven archetypes (Arnold, Jobs, Buffett, Mandela, Hassabis, Sun Tzu, Bezos), each with its own RAG vector store trained on how that person actually thinks.
- [Elias](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/elias): Autonomous AI assistant running on OpenClaw, seven agents across five channels, persistent memory, home inference. Every action is version-controlled markdown I can audit.
- [Injester](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/injester): The missing layer between the human web and AI agents. Strips a page to what an agent actually needs. 81% less content, 3 to 5x better task completion.
- [LoopOS](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/loopos): Multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations. Multiple AI clients share one durable backend.
- [Red Thread](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/redthread): Agentic operating system for luxury hospitality. Live A2A handoff between two real machines (Threadkeeper on Vercel ↔ elias on a Mac mini via Cloudflare tunnel), real Claude on each side.
- [Scriber](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/scriber): Two-agent voice architecture for real-time standup facilitation. Scriber runs the meeting by voice and mutates the Linear board live; Mnemo silently remembers across standups and whispers guidance.
- [Home Token Factory](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/spark-cluster): A home inference fleet, roughly 1.68TB of unified memory. Two Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB each), an M4 Max agent box, a 4-node DGX Spark GPU cluster on a 200Gbps ring, a Mac mini head node, NAS, and a router. Local inference, no cloud.
- [Stay Ikigai](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/stayikigai): Direct-booking brand for five short-term rentals across the US, Taiwan, and Japan. One storefront, Superhost 4.95 stars, 423 reviews.
- [Timbre](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/timbre): Multi-agent content engine for technical founders. It researches what matters, writes in your voice, and a second agent verifies it didn't change a fact to sound smoother.
- [TurnkeyHost](https://benjaminshyong.com/projects/turnkey): Custom property-management software running five short-term rentals as one operation. Two-tier reservation handling, AI guest-comms, FAQ matcher, nightly deploys.

## Hackathons

- [Blaxel × Codex × Redis Hack Day](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/blaxel-codex-redis): Built AgentMES, a manufacturing execution system for autonomous agents. OpenAI's 7-stage AI-Native Engineering Workflow as a bipartite state machine, agents do throughput work, humans own the judgment gates.
- [Army xTech National Security Hackathon](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/darkmesh): Built with team Altiair. Tactical edge-mesh coordination for DDIL environments. A decentralized sensor mesh fuses weak field signals into one human-reviewed cue, survives node loss, and syncs the mission record back to Palantir Foundry. Live on a Jetson Nano, three Raspberry Pis, and an iPad chest computer.
- [DataHub × Nebius Hackathon](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/datahub-nebius): First place. 4-agent incident response team for data quality bugs, fine-tuned Llama 3.1 + LoRA for NL→GraphQL, end-to-end in 54.8s at ~2¢/run.
- [Marginalia](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/gemma-voice): On-device voice agent for smart glasses. Gemma 4 + Cactus + Even Realities G2. Zero cloud, full inference loop runs on the wearable.
- [AWS Builder Loft, Agent Hack Day](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/loopos): Top 6 finalist. Built LoopOS, a multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations.
- [Nebius.Build SF](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/nebius-build): First place. Built the earliest Injester prototype, agent-to-merchant commerce infrastructure. Demoed at NVIDIA GTC the following Tuesday.
- [Cerebral Valley × Rosewood Hospitality 2030](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/redthread): First place. Built Red Thread, a hospitality concierge concept rooted in Rosewood's "Sense of Place" thesis.
- [OpenAI Voice Hack Night](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/scriber): Built Scriber, a two-agent voice architecture for live standup facilitation. One agent runs the meeting in voice and mutates the Linear board live; a second silent agent remembers across standups and whispers guidance.
- [Cerebral Valley I/O 2026](https://benjaminshyong.com/hackathons/timbre): Built Timbre, a multi-agent content engine for technical founders. Two agents fight so the founder's voice survives a long agentic pipeline, and a Verify pass catches the moment style-transfer turns a fact into a lie.

## Writing

- [Building Data-OnCall](https://benjaminshyong.com/writing/data-oncall): How I won first place at the DataHub × Nebius hackathon by chasing a hallucinated hot tub through five databases.
- [Building Red Thread](https://benjaminshyong.com/writing/red-thread): How brand and craft become part of the build, and why I spent a third of my hackathon time on it.

## Contact

- Email: benjamin.shyong@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/benikigai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminshyong