Mike Hall

Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Architect

Local AI Orchestration & Developer Runtime | Independent Project | -

Built and operate three MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that expose live system state as callable tools to any MCP client, alongside the Claude Code skills, context-isolated subagents, and commit-time checks that keep agent work bounded and reviewable.

  • Bidirectional Knowledge Server: Built ctx-mcp, an MCP server fronting a PostgreSQL knowledge suite that agents both query and write back to, so methodologies and lessons learned in one session are retrievable in the next rather than re-derived.
  • Telemetry-Driven Diagnosis: Built o2-mcp, exposing on-demand OpenObserve telemetry (errors, slow spans, failed jobs, distributed traces) as agent-callable tools, so an agent diagnoses a running system from observed behavior instead of inferring from source.
  • Context as a Budgeted Resource: Designed context-isolated subagents that keep high-volume audit work out of the main conversation's context window, with per-client registration tooling and pre-commit hooks that reject any agent asset that isn't self-describing.

Skills: Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Workflow Design, Claude Code, Anthropic API, LLM Tool Design, PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, OpenObserve, llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, Local Inference, PHI Scrubbing & Compliance, Ruby