About Connor
Applied AI developer. Builder of retrieval systems, agent workflows, and the occasional framework for thinking clearly about both.
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The Short Version
I build AI systems for a living — specifically, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines at enterprise scale in healthcare. Confidence-scored answers. Citation-backed retrieval. Domain-isolated vector search across large internal knowledge bases. The kind of work where getting it wrong isn't a bad demo; it's a compliance problem.
Before that: data engineering, .NET systems, SSRS reporting, HL7 and NCPDP interfaces, and a decade of building software in a regulated industry where things have to actually work.
Outside of the day job, I run Pattern Engine — a weekly letter about the patterns underneath AI — and Generative Growth Labs, a live community for people learning to build with these tools. I publish open-source projects, reference architectures, and research docs on GitHub.
I'm a father, a husband, and a person of faith. I play fingerstyle guitar and I'm working toward a pilot's license. I care about building things that hold up under pressure — in code, in organizations, and in life.
The Longer Version (for the people who want it)
I've been a systems thinker since I was a kid - the kind who built roller coaster sets, optimized lap times in Gran Turismo, and spun up Linux boxes just to see if they'd run. I was raised by an Army combat engineer and a post-surgical nurse, both of whom ended up in IT, so practical problem-solving was the household language.
But there was always a second current underneath the technical one. My closest friends were the kind of people who thought everything mattered - even the small stuff, maybe especially the small stuff. We couldn't name it then, but we were drawn to something heavier and more real than what the surface world was offering.
That pull took me through a long search. I grew up loosely around church, dove in deep through a youth group, and then walked away when I saw the distance between what was preached and what was practiced. I spent years trying to replace faith with frameworks — reading across 50+ traditions, from Heidegger to the Upanishads, looking for something that could bear the weight.
I burned out early. Full-time job, overloaded course schedule, the presidency of a collapsing fraternity, a failing relationship. I tried to carry everything and couldn't. When I finally stopped, I found my way back to clarity through an unexpected place - a business planning course that gave me room to breathe, sketch, and rebuild from first principles.
I transferred into a dual BBA in Behavioral Economics and Entrepreneurship. Won an international business plan competition. Built software. Co-founded startups. Led organizations. Failed at some of them. Got sharper with every cycle.
And through the wreckage of one of the hardest years of my life, God met me again - not through argument, but presence. He waited while I wandered, and welcomed me when I came back. That changed the order of everything.
Today I build with the conviction that the order matters: faith, family, craft, then ambition. Not because ambition is bad, but because it's a terrible foundation and a great fuel.
Where to Go From Here
Read the letter. Pattern Engine is where I write weekly about the patterns underneath AI — what these systems amplify, what they miss, and what it means for the people building with them.
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Join the community. Generative Growth Labs is a live community for learning and building with AI — biweekly Power Hours, monthly open forums, technical deep-dives alongside applied strategy.
Browse the work. Open-source tools, reference architectures, and research documents — published in the open.
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