Christian Syfert

Hey, I’m Christian.

I build AI and software, and I care about making things that feel good to use. Have a look around.

Open to new work

Things I’ve made and written.

  1. Writing2026

    Building this site: correct before JavaScript runs

    A tour of the architecture behind this portfolio: a fully static Next.js site where the screen-reader experience and the no-JavaScript experience are the design, not the fallback.

  2. Writing2026

    Magenta: why we trained a model instead of building a RAG pipeline

    How a multi-task fine-tuned DeBERTa model replaced a retrieval pipeline for a Fortune 500 document workflow, and the architectural decisions that made it work with 4,000 training examples instead of tens of thousands.

  3. Project2026

    This site

    The portfolio you are reading. A fully static Next.js site where the screen-reader experience and the no-JavaScript experience are the design, not the fallback. Build-time Markdown, inline SVG diagrams, AAA contrast, motion that politely steps aside.

  4. Project2026

    WhisperForm

    A conversational form that replaces dead lead-capture with actual dialogue. An agentic loop with strict tool-calling and schema-locked output.

    Final validation, deployed to Cloud Run
  5. Project2025

    Magenta

    A fine-tuned ML model that reads the documents a Fortune 500 used to process by hand. Weeks of work, down to hours. $5000 a turn to under $10. I built nearly all of it.

    Complete, Closed SourceRead the write-up

I came to engineering from psychology, by way of founding a couple of things. I’m blind, and I build everything through a screen reader. I think it makes the work better, and me a little more stubborn about the details.

Say hi.

I’m always up for talking shop, or about a role. No forms, just email.