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Michael Reinhofferloading
Best experienced with sound

Cloud Architect × Applied AI Engineer

Building tools that respect your time

Scroll runs the final lap

Track 01 · the real final laps0.000s
run 881229 · recordedmichi · 3.959s

loading the lap…

3.948s, past the human line.

Trained from wall-stalls to a sub-4 lap; the pale line is my own 3.959s, beaten by 0.011s.

Glass House · read live from this visit

This is what I know about you without you ever telling me.

It knows where you are.

The connection carried an address but no city header, so this page will not guess a town.

It knows what you're on.

Reading the machine…

It would know you again.

Deriving the signature…

Symphony · Applied AI, regulated finance

  1. A ticket goes in.

    An agentic pipeline that turns a Jira ticket into a reviewed merge request.

  2. Routed by complexity.

    Model routing by complexity: a lighter model orchestrates, a stronger model plans.

  3. Built by autonomous agents.

    Autonomous coding agents in isolated, ephemeral sessions, with a self-healing reconciler loop.

  4. Proven, then merged.

    A full audit trail across the issue tracker, the compute layer, and the database, kept in agreement.

  5. Read the case study~30%faster delivery cycle

yeGPT · ML fundamentals lab

yegpt · sample streamreplayed · not live

  1. A transformer, from scratch.

    Tokenizer, attention, blocks, and training loop in raw PyTorch. No transformer libraries, no pretrained weights. 1.87M parameters.

  2. Trained at home.

    A char-level GPT trained on a Kanye corpus on a single RTX 4080. Small on purpose: the exercise is owning every layer, not chasing scale.

  3. And this is what it writes.

    At 1.87M params on a tiny corpus it produces recognizably Kanye-styled gibberish, and owning that ceiling honestly is the point of the exercise.

  4. Read the code1.87Mparams, zero transformer libs

All work.

Six projects, one line each. Every case study says where the work stops working.

The person behindthe systems.

Michael at his desk at night, headphones on, focused on the screen
Role
Cloud Architect × Applied AI Engineer
Focus
Applied AI + Cloud Infrastructure
Based
Heidelberg / Mannheim, DE

I am 27, and when I do something I do it with full force, and it shows wherever I put that energy, whether it is the gym, gaming, or building AI systems. Underneath it I am calm and reflective, more likely to think something through than react to it. I have a soft spot for Dobermans, chocolate, and caffeine.

My current focus is applied AI: agentic pipelines, workflow automation, retrieval, evaluation, and the product layer around intelligent systems. Symphony, an agent that turns tickets into reviewed merge requests inside a regulated estate, is where most of that thinking currently lives.

Most of my best work happens between 30 Chrome tabs, late-night music, and the determination to make it work. I build best in the quiet hours, with headphones on and one problem in front of me. The taste shows up in the same places whether it is a system or a sound: restraint, timing, and the parts most people skip.

How I build

Currently: building symphony · running several projects in parallel

Plan and concept
Claude
Pressure-test the concept
/grill-me
Implement
/caveman + /ponytail
Run in parallel
/nocturne, my own skill