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Seth Hobson

Software Engineer · Applied AI · Data Engineering · Founder @ Major 7 Apps

I'm a software engineer with 15+ years building data-driven applications, services, and distributed systems at the intersection of finance, technology, and AI. These days I build agentic AI tooling and financial products, and write about the engineering primitives behind applied AI.

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Products

QueryPlan in development

Learn SQL performance from real execution plans. Interactive exercises are graded by running your actual queries, and result correctness and plan efficiency both count.

Ambient Alpha in development

Ambient market intelligence for shared screens. It's a native tvOS display for unattended and shared screens that shows market pulse, breadth and sector leadership, watchlist intelligence, catalysts, and portfolio risk at a glance.

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Open Source

agents

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Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and more.

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commands

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Production-ready slash commands for Claude Code.

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Pensyve

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Offline-first memory runtime for AI agents with 8-signal retrieval, FSRS decay, and native MCP support.

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Maverick MCP

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Personal stock-analysis MCP server — technical indicators, screening, backtesting, and portfolio tracking for any MCP client.

Tiingo MCP

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Native Rust MCP server for the Tiingo financial data API — stocks, forex, crypto, news, fundamentals, and corporate actions.

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Experience

Senior AI Engineer, United Data Technologies 2025–present
Founder, Major 7 Apps LLC 2024–present
Senior Software Engineer, Kuali Inc. 2021–2023
Senior Software Engineer, Apple Inc. 2015–2021
Software development and web technologies 2009–2015

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Skills

Software Architecture
Python
TypeScript
Go
Rust
SQL
AI/ML/LLM Integration
RAG & Agentic RAG
REST · GraphQL · gRPC · MCP · A2A
Data Pipelines
AWS · Azure · Terraform
Distributed Systems

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