Hi, I'm Amen.

I'm an engineer with 18+ years shipping software — backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, and modern web platforms — now focused on voice AI, agents, and the telephony infrastructure underneath them. I'm US-based, and everything here is personal work I build on my own time, in the open.

Most of what I make starts the same way: the tool I needed existed, but not built the way I wanted to use it — missing the one feature that mattered, or wrapped in a black box I couldn't reach into. So I build the version I wished I had. A phone line an AI agent can actually pick up. A streaming layer for a TTS API that only spoke request-and-response. A storage cleaner that knows where developer bloat really hides.

Right now that's two bodies of work. The voice stack: xPhone, an embedded SIP/RTP telephony library for Go and Rust, and cadence, the engine that runs the STT→LLM→TTS pipeline — battle-tested across 500,000+ production calls. And a shelf of indie tools — a WebSocket TTS bridge, a Rust storage cleaner, a Chrome notepad, a macOS capture studio — most of them open-source, all of them privacy-first: local by default, no accounts, your data stays on your device.

I publish measurement-heavy notes about the work — benchmarks with medians and ranges, limitations stated up front, and an explicit line between what I observed and what I inferred. I approach engineering pragmatically: systems should be maintainable, observable, and built to evolve rather than to impress. If a claim isn't sourced, I try to say so out loud — that honesty is the point; the polish is secondary.

Away from the keyboard I read constantly, and I'm working my way through Spanish (English and French are already home). I care a lot about developer community: I founded GDG Lomé in Togo and played a key role in the Internet Society (ISOC) Togo chapter — years of getting people into a room to build things well together.