about
Software engineer. Rochester, Minnesota. Currently focused on agentic systems in healthcare.
I have been shipping software professionally for a long time. Most of that work has been web applications on top of Go and TypeScript services. The last two years have shifted toward agentic systems — tool-use loops, context engineering, eval harnesses — usually inside a larger application, usually in a regulated domain where PHI and audit trails are first-class concerns.
I also build and maintain Verve — a full-stack web framework in pure Zig. This site runs on it. The /verve route demos the live features.
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sirhcowhat I do
Web applications
Full-stack web applications, mostly Go or Rust on the backend and whatever the frontend needs to be — React, Next, Svelte, or Verve when the right tool is the one I wrote.
Agentic systems
Tool-use loops, orchestration, and the harnesses around them. In-tenant Vertex AI and Anthropic, PHI-safe pipelines, real evals.
Frameworks + tools
I build the underlying pieces too. Verve is a full-stack Zig web framework I wrote and maintain; this site runs on it. Open source, pre-1.0, ships as a single binary.
how I think about this stuff
An agent that works is an agent whose control loop you can draw on a whiteboard. The interesting parts are not the model calls. They are the state machine around them, the tools you chose to expose, the eval harness that tells you whether the last change made things better or worse, and the observability that lets a human intervene before a small problem becomes a big one. The model is a component. The system is the work.
currently
shipping agentic workflows in healthcarePart of a small team building in-tenant agent pipelines for a regional health system.
get in touch
chris@sirhco.dev