Zack Proser

Applied AI @ WorkOS · Independent AI Researcher · Consultant
Local inference economics · Eval methodology · Systems from silicon to prompt

Mind on Fire AI Consultancy

Research

I run controlled experiments on local LLM inference, build eval harnesses with proper statistics, and publish everything as interactive technical drawings.

The Blueprint Series

17 technical drawings covering the full AI stack — each with SVG schematics, equations, academic citations, and interactive demos:

The Transformer	The Tokenizer	The Embedding Space
The RAG Pipeline	The Diffusion Model	Choosing an LLM
The Agent Fleet	The Attention Head	The Autonomy Boundary
The Guard	Designing AI Evaluations	The Workshop

→ View all 17 Blueprints

Interactive Demos

Live tools you can use right now — built into my portfolio site:

Publications

Identity Management for Agentic AI (Oct 2025) — Co-authored white paper on authentication, authorization, and security for AI agents. With Tobin South, Alex Pentland (MIT), and others.
RAG Evaluation chapter — Official contribution to Pinecone's Vector Databases in Production book series.
50+ technical articles at WorkOS, Pinecone, Cloudflare, Gruntwork — AI agents, RAG pipelines, fine-grained auth, vector DBs, IaC.
180+ essays on zackproser.com + external publications on The New Stack, Prefect.io, Pinecone Learning Center.

→ Full publications list

Open Source

Project	Description	Stars
coding-agent-eval-harness	Open-source benchmark harness for coding agent comparison	NEW
portfolio	zackproser.com — Next.js 15, 17 Blueprints, 9 demos, 180+ essays	—
handwave	watchOS app controlling Claude Code from your wrist	—
git-xargs	Run commands across many GitHub repos simultaneously	⭐ 1,086
cloud-nuke	AWS resource cleanup — nuke entire accounts safely	⭐ 3,121
cf-terraforming	Generate Terraform from existing Cloudflare config	⭐ 1,324

Speaking

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Career

Role	Company	Years	What I did
Applied AI	WorkOS	2025–present	AI workflows, internal tooling, developer education. Created Claude Cowork workshop with Anthropic.
Staff DevRel	Pinecone	2023–2025	RAG pipelines, AWS reference architectures, dev education during the vector DB explosion. Spoke at a16z SF.
Senior Software Engineer	Cloudflare	2020–2023	Joined at ~100 engineers globally. Built `cf-terraforming` (1.3K⭐). APIs, edge infra, dev tools at scale.
Infrastructure Engineer	Gruntwork	2018–2020	Built `git-xargs` (1K⭐), contributed to `cloud-nuke` (3.1K⭐). Multi-account AWS, Terraform, production IaC.

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Regularly advising hedge funds and PE firms on AI infrastructure, developer tools, and cloud platforms via AlphaSights, Guidepoint, Tegus, GLG, Coleman.

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