Don Le

Staff Engineer · Data Platforms & Applied AI

Staff Engineer / Tech Lead — Data Platform at mod.io

I work on data platforms at mod.io. Outside work, I build tools for agent coordination, local retrieval, reliable assistant execution and recommendation ranking.

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Selected engineering projects

  1. Agent Workforce

    A Go CLI and MCP server for installing a ForgeCode coordinator and nine focused specialists, with manifest-tracked lifecycle management and a localhost view of delegated work.

    Open-source Go tooling

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  2. Local-first RAG for coding agents

    Making project context searchable for coding agents: local embeddings and a vector index retrieve passages from files and documentation, with references back to their sources.

    Developer-tooling prototype

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  3. Personal AI assistant

    Managing a conversation beyond the model response: bounded context, streamed output, persistent execution state and budget checks before execution.

    Local prototype · In development

    Recent context stays within a fixed bound, trading older detail for a controlled input size.

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  4. Two-stage recommendation engine

    Separating candidate search from ranking on MovieLens data: semantic retrieval finds candidates, then a learning-to-rank model orders them using user and item features.

    ML prototype

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Professional experience

Staff Engineer / Tech Lead — Data Platform at mod.io

My professional focus is data-platform engineering. The selected engineering projects are independent work outside this role.