Weekly deep dives on context engineering, agent architecture, and building software that builds itself.
Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft (GitHub · Copilot Ecosystem)
I build agentic systems — software that doesn't just assist developers, it collaborates with them. My work lives at the intersection of context engineering, agent governance, and platform architecture.
By day, I work on the GitHub Copilot ecosystem at Microsoft. By night, I run a 43-agent AI home assistant that manages my family's entire life — calendars, meals, finances, health tracking, content creation, and more — all powered by GitHub Copilot CLI.
My core thesis: Make the right thing to do the easy thing to do — for humans AND agents.
I write about what I learn, ship the tools I build, and teach the patterns that actually work. If you're building with AI agents, you're in the right place.
I create content at the frontier of agentic software development. Here's what I write and teach about:
| Pillar | What It Covers |
|---|---|
| 🧠 Context Engineering | Prompt architecture, memory systems, skill files, and making AI agents actually useful |
| 🤖 Agent Skills & Architecture | Multi-agent orchestration, delegation patterns, agent-to-agent communication |
| 🔌 MCP Ecosystem | Model Context Protocol servers, tools, and integrations — including turning your phone into one |
| 🪝 Extension Architecture | Copilot hooks, extensions, governance layers, and guardrails for safe AI coding |
| 🔒 AI Governance | Safe agentic development, content signing, approval workflows, human-in-the-loop patterns |
| ⚙️ Platform Engineering | GitOps for AI, infrastructure-as-code for agent systems, CI/CD with AI in the loop |
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- [I Context-Engineered My Way Into Baking](https://htek.dev/articles/context-engineering-family-cooking-baking/) — On paternity leave, I took over breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and used context engineering to learn tortillas, guisados, and pan dulce.- [Six Months Away. Where Do I Restart?](https://htek.dev/articles/six-month-ai-reset/) — Returning from paternity leave, I mapped what shipped in AI from May to Oct 28, 2026: Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, voice, video and open models.- [My Sister Shipped 5 PRs in an Hour](https://htek.dev/articles/my-sister-shipped-5-prs-in-an-hour/) — My sister, a marketing grad with zero dev experience, shipped 20 PRs in a night via Telegram. The harness — not the model — made it possible.- [13 PRs. One Day. No Manual Merges.](https://htek.dev/articles/agent-merge-speed-without-losing-control/) — I merged 13 PRs in one day with AI agents running in parallel. 5 iterations to a 3-button approval system that keeps humans in control.- [The Agent Infrastructure Layer Is Here](https://htek.dev/articles/the-agent-infrastructure-layer-is-here/) — My laptop is in the room but I almost never open it. Persistent agent compute just became a product category — and trust is the only thing standing in the way.
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