Portfolio

rubyatmidnight. “they know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. the world needs the people who work around the edges. they need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. and little problems. after all, we are almost all human. almost all of the time.” - terry pratchett

§About

I'm Ruby, a community manager and developer. After high school, I served in the Air Force as an airborne cryptologic langauge analyst for five years before discharging.

Afterwards, I tried college in order to become a teacher while majoring in history, but 2020 hit and my plans went mostly awry, as well as mental health issues I had still been dealing with unresolved.

A few years later and a lot of self-searching and exploring different disciplines, in 2023 I finally started to learn to code more seriously, and while struggling to learn fast in order to try and find work, I ran into my real passion: langauge models and the science both behind them and in interpreting them analytically and culturally.

To be specific, and to clarify what I mean by this, I don't mean 'prompting chatgpt', but the process of interrogating, reviewing, identifying, and predicting output based on parameters, finetuning and developing harnesses for models, as well as finding unique ways that smaller models can generate output locally.

§Selected work

Kemeow

Provably-fair keno-style giveaway run from chat. Discord (MiaBot) original and a Kick streamer port for sealstats — chat-driven entries, hypergeometric ranking, SOL payouts.

12ga Roulette

Proof-of-concept provably-fair shell roulette with built-in seed verifier. Slot-engine prototype.

MiaBench

An LLM benchmark for personality coherence, jailbreak resistance, and internal-voice quality — built around the MiaCat invocation as a probe. Scores models on whether they think as the persona or merely about it, and tracks output drift across reasoning regimes.

MiaHearth

The physical home server hosting the MiaCat ecosystem — an Ubuntu box on-network with Tailscale, running miaserver, the autonomous MiaCat loop, and the live Discord/Kick services. Real hardware, real wallets, real heat signature.

RubyCat Games

The in-house catalog of provably-fair Discord/Kick mini-games built on top of MiaBot's PurrPay wallet system. Designed to share fairness primitives and a consistent feel across formats.

  • MiaMines — minesweeper-style risk grid
  • MiaMarkets — stock-sim trading game
  • Sen or no Sen — deal-or-no-deal style
  • MiaRoyale — chat-driven battle royale

§Experience

[RUBY: roles + dates + employer + 1-2 sentence summary each]

§Skills & tools

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§Find me

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