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  "reviewed": "2026-09-20",
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    "name": "Zain Dana Harper",
    "location": "Seattle, Washington",
    "email": "zaindharper@gmail.com",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaindanaharper/",
    "github": "https://github.com/HarperZ9",
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    "freelance_writing": "Start year 2017 is known. No current status, end year, or continuous employment is inferred.",
    "arboriculture": "Full-time period April 25, 2015 to June 2, 2026. Legendary Tree is an applicant-provided organization label; the displayed role describes duties and does not establish a formal title or legal employer name.",
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        "text": "Free Law Project: documented a runnable database-free fast-test workflow, separating focused developer checks from Docker/Postgres-backed targets. Merged pull request #820.",
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        "text": "Hebbian Robotics: added a characterization test that compares queryable episode columns with reserved names and reports drift in either direction. Merged pull request #157.",
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          "text": "Monitored rigging systems, clearances, and changing conditions while supporting climbers from the ground. Explained work options and constraints to clients and maintained continuity between the proposed scope and field execution.",
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          "kind": "li",
          "text": "Produces sealed, re-derivable receipts and offline MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE outcomes. A reproducible receipt establishes the bounded check it records, not universal model accuracy or safety.",
          "evidence": [
            "flywheel"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Accountable Surface | Governed actions and computer-use adapters"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Built operator-granted action interfaces for filesystem, command, API, browser, and Windows UI Automation work. Actions carry explicit scope and postconditions; persisted journals preserve decisions and observed effects. Reversible adapters include restoration paths. Fake drivers make browser and desktop scenarios testable without uncontrolled live actions.",
          "evidence": [
            "accountable-surface"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "The v0.2.0 release provides source and wheel artifacts on GitHub. The project remains alpha; browser integrations are optional and a tool refusal or unknown result is not promoted into a successful action.",
          "evidence": [
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          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Articulate | Writing analysis and accountable editing"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Built deterministic prose analysis with register, mode, and genre profiles, alongside optional model-assisted editing. Includes command-line, library, MCP, language-server, and SARIF surfaces; math-span protection preserves formulas during supported editing flows. Content-free audit receipts record checks without retaining the underlying prose. Version 0.3.0 was released September 20, 2026.",
          "evidence": [
            "articulate"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Agent tools, memory, and coordination"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Relay supplies model-agnostic coding-agent tooling; Plexus connects tool interfaces; Mneme retains memories with source checks; Canon consolidates assistant instructions and context. Bulletin provides a signed-identity public message board. These systems contribute distinct capabilities to the larger platform rather than representing separate claims of deployment at customer scale.",
          "evidence": [
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            "plexus",
            "mneme",
            "canon",
            "bulletin"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Evaluation, Systems, and Security Engineering"
        },
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          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Terminal State Fixtures and Crucible"
        },
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          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Designed exhaustive terminal-state evaluation cases and deterministic scoring that inspect the environment after an agent runs. The MLflow fixture family includes 324 cases; the component-forge suite includes 337 cases and 5,058 frozen expectations. These are fixture counts, not measured model-performance gains. Crucible provides structured worker/verifier evaluation with explicit match, drift, and missing-evidence outcomes. Third-party private staging is not represented as public hosting or endorsement.",
          "evidence": [
            "terminal-state-fixtures",
            "crucible"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "EMET | Byte-integrity witnessing"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Developed Python, Rust, Node, and Go implementations around shared conformance cases and portable verification records. The witness checks byte-level integrity, anchors, and source correspondence; it does not grant permission, certify semantic truth, or replace an operator decision. Cross-language checking makes implementation differences visible.",
          "evidence": [
            "emet"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "BuildLang | Rust compiler and developer tooling"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Developed a systems-language toolchain with typed capability effects, type inference, parser and intermediate-representation work, native C output, shader output, and language-server support. The compiler makes categories of ambient access visible to its type and build machinery. Experimental backends and linear-type work remain distinguished from the supported path.",
          "evidence": [
            "buildlang"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Phantom | Hardware-identity inspection and reversible system changes"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Developed a Rust-based Windows and Linux utility with deterministic profiles, read-only audit, backup-before-write behavior, validation, restoration, and platform packages. The released v1.1.1 scope is userland-reversible identifiers. Kernel and firmware layers are modeled, not shipped.",
          "evidence": [
            "phantom"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Controlled assessment and operator tooling"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Private systems work includes Array for approval-gated assessment orchestration and containment records, Lab/Seed for controlled-lab fixtures and detection-engineering workflows, and Runtime/ORCA for local workspaces, reports, bundles, and release provenance. Public descriptions cover architecture and safe interfaces; private implementations, target material, and operational details are not published here.",
          "evidence": [
            "public-security-descriptions"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Research intake and workspace tooling"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Built Gather for source-carrying research intake, Index for workspace and symbol maps, and Forum for model orchestration with recorded decisions. These tools make source selection, handoffs, and task context inspectable across a multi-repository product.",
          "evidence": [
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            "forum"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Graphics, Color, and Runtime Work"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Developed HLSL and C++ graphics and game-modding work spanning post-processing, Direct3D 11 integration, shader debugging, GPU traces, and shared-memory interfaces. Related public projects include Elder ENB, SkyrimBridge, ENB Runtime Core, Brender Archival, and Engine Revival. Existing engines and collaborators retain their own attribution.",
          "evidence": [
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            "skyrimbridge",
            "enb-runtime-core",
            "brender-archival",
            "engine-revival"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Color and creative-tool work includes Build Color, Calibrate Pro, Studio Engine, and browser-based studio/print surfaces: perceptual color spaces, color difference, HDR/tone-mapping tools, display characterization, and generative visual systems. These are engineering projects, not claims of professional calibration certification.",
          "evidence": [
            "build-color",
            "calibrate-pro",
            "studio-engine"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Selected Open-Source Contributions"
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "The following changes were accepted into externally maintained repositories. They are contributions, not employment at those organizations. The broader public contribution record separately tracks merged, open, and closed without merge outcomes.",
          "evidence": [
            "flp",
            "hflow",
            "voxwire",
            "deepeval",
            "tomlkit",
            "datasette"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "DeepEval #2822: fixed unhashable tool-output and nested-parameter failures in tool-correctness evaluation; merged July 2, 2026. github.com/confident-ai/deepeval/pull/2822",
          "evidence": [
            "deepeval"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "TOMLKit #549: preserved dotted-key siblings when replacing a value with an array of tables; merged July 14, 2026. github.com/python-poetry/tomlkit/pull/549",
          "evidence": [
            "tomlkit"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "Datasette #2815: corrected error handling for malformed composite primary-key row URLs; merged July 7, 2026. github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2815",
          "evidence": [
            "datasette"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "Free Law Project #820: documented runnable database-free fast tests; merged August 25, 2026. github.com/freelawproject/litigant-portal/pull/820",
          "evidence": [
            "flp"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "Hebbian Robotics #157: tested reserved-column drift against the actual queryable episode schema; merged August 25, 2026. github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow/pull/157",
          "evidence": [
            "hflow"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "li",
          "text": "Voxwire #44: added offline WebSocket recording and replay regression coverage; merged August 15, 2026. github.com/vectorvoyager358/voxwire/pull/44",
          "evidence": [
            "voxwire"
          ]
        },
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          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Technical Competencies"
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          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Languages and runtimes: Python, Rust, C++, Dart/Flutter, TypeScript/JavaScript, Lua, HLSL, C#, PowerShell, and Bash. Additional cross-language conformance work includes Go and Node implementations.",
          "evidence": [
            "history",
            "flywheel",
            "emet"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "AI infrastructure and quality: multi-provider/local-model routing, tool-use loops, task decomposition, MCP, evaluation design, deterministic fixtures, regression testing, worker/verifier separation, failure analysis, and terminal-state scoring.",
          "evidence": [
            "flywheel",
            "terminal-state-fixtures",
            "crucible"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Verification and controlled actions: capability effects, operator grants, action envelopes, source provenance, hash-chained journals, offline replay, scoped postconditions, conformance suites, and release evidence.",
          "evidence": [
            "buildlang",
            "accountable-surface",
            "emet"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Software delivery: Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, Python packaging, command-line design, Windows/Linux installers, CMake, test automation, static websites, release documentation, and checksums.",
          "evidence": [
            "flywheel",
            "phantom",
            "buildlang",
            "history"
          ]
        },
        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Graphics and domain knowledge: D3D11/HLSL, shader and runtime debugging, color-space and tone-mapping work, GPU instrumentation, shared-memory interfaces, and applied arboriculture/horticulture from field practice.",
          "evidence": [
            "history",
            "elder-enb",
            "build-color"
          ]
        },
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          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Working Practice"
        },
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          "kind": "p",
          "text": "AI-assisted development is part of the workflow. Architecture, integration, source review, test design, release decisions, and responsibility for the submitted work remain mine. Public examples separate observed results from interpretation and retain negative or inconclusive findings rather than treating every completed run as success.",
          "evidence": [
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            "flp",
            "deepeval"
          ]
        },
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          "text": "Research Agenda"
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          "kind": "p",
          "text": "My independent research examines how an AI system can leave evidence that another system or person can check without inheriting its authority. Workstreams include evaluation provenance and verifier independence; live-state drift; proof-carrying action envelopes; the relationship between memory, uncertainty, and behavior; and explicit human authorization for consequential actions. Robotics is a research interest, not a claim of professional robotics deployment experience.",
          "evidence": [
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          "kind": "h2",
          "text": "Selected Publications and Research Records"
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          "kind": "p",
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          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "EMET: An Authority-Incapable Byte-Level Integrity Witness"
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        {
          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Systems paper, 2026. Byte-integrity witnessing and the separation of observation from authority. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21230267",
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          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "BuildLang: Accountable Compute via Typed Capability Effects"
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          "kind": "p",
          "text": "Systems paper, 2026. Capability effects and accountable compilation. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21231253",
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          "kind": "h3",
          "text": "Witnessed Independence: Recording Whether a Verifier Graded Its Own Work"
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          "text": "Proof Packets: A Derive-Don't-Trust Envelope for Accountable Agent Actions"
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