about

Cody

Hello! My name is Cody (he/him). I’m passionate about progress via technology. Engineer by education & practice, product manager by title.

what is dkdc? #

dkdc is my brand. I own several dkdc domains including:

  • dkdc.dev: my personal website (you’re here!)
  • dkdc.io: my free & open source software projects

professional experience #

Currently Ascend’s Product Lead building the Agentic Data Engineering platform.

Previously a Senior Technical Product Manager at Voltron Data focusing on data interfaces and awesome OSS like Ibis. Previously a Product Manager at dbt Labs focusing on OSS (Python models) and Cloud (internal platform) products. Previously a Product Manager II at Microsoft (AI Platform | Azure ML) focusing on data, MLOps, and v2 developer experiences. Summer engineering internships at Convergent Engineering and Texas Instruments.

Background in electrical engineering (digital logic, signals and systems, embedded systems, mechatronics, VLSI, electronics, etc.) and data science (classical machine learning, neural networks, etc.). Generally technically proficient with a focus on modern data & ML/AI technologies and best practices.

I care about (w.r.t. work):

  • OSS & scale
  • beautiful design
  • elegant engineering
  • delightful user experience
  • efficient engineering process

See my GitHub and/or LinkedIn for more details on my experience.

email #

cody@dkdc.dev

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Ibis Birdbrain: an early attempt at agentic data engineering

In late 2023, I built Ibis Birdbrain – a “portable Python ML-powered data bot” under the Ibis project. It was an early attempt at what we’d now call agentic AI: language model tool use in a loop, applied to data work. It didn’t work. But the ideas were right.

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unstarring 197 repos in 9 minutes

I had 197 starred repos and 12 star lists cluttering my GitHub. I knew Claude Code could clean it out. 9 minutes later it was done.

Here’s the full transcript.

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introducing dkdc.io

My free & open source software.

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code is just a folder

which code

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one systems language library, many interfaces

Write once, distribute everywhere.

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to monorepo or not to monorepo

Agents and monorepos.

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a CLI for MotherDuck

I built a CLI for the MotherDuck REST API.

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Rust CLIs via uv (Python)

Shipping fast, lean Rust CLIs via Python (uv).

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I've switched to Zorto!

My website now runs on my own static site generator.

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how this website works

I’ve tried everything!

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