Bryson Tang

AI Systems Architect & Research Engineer

Founder, Syntropy Systems · Nashua, NH · Building Syntropy full time · open to research collaborations

Founder of Syntropy Systems, building Elwood, an AI worker, and open-sourcing the tooling that tests agents and schedules their experiments: windtunnel (agent reliability bench), pit (a prediction market that schedules experiments), and whirr (local experiment orchestration). 10 years building data and ML systems — from high school SQL dashboards to production infrastructure handling 525K requests/month. Interpretability on consumer hardware: a sparse-autoencoder replication of Golden Gate Claude on Qwen2.5-1.5B and a backward "ghost-token" Jacobian lens on Qwen3-0.6B. Research background: 70-paper literature synthesis on AI safety, backpropagation from the 1986 Rumelhart paper, research mentorship designing paper curricula. Architected sub-1s semantic search across 300k documents. Created the Agent Tokens protocol. Built 5-agent orchestration pipeline handling 150k+ line edits with zero regressions. WPI Data Science graduate (3.75 GPA, High Distinction). BlueDot AI Safety Alignment certified.

525K requests/month on production ML infrastructure
150k lines → agent-native codebase
10x query latency reduction (4s → 0.4s)
300k resume chunks searchable in <1s via RAG
466 safe merge requests shipped without regressions
2wks→2d prototype cycle acceleration via agent workflows

Selected Work

pit

A prediction market that schedules experiments. Agents earn an income, pay for the runs they post, and bet PASS or FAIL; the runs they disagree about go first, because those are the ones whose result isn't already known. Every job, bet, and finding is a row in an append-only git ledger, and a finding that turns out wrong marks everything that rested on it stale. In one real 26-hour run, agents' own checks passed 96% of the time while the shared benchmark passed 55%, and counter-bets were right 83% of the time. Open source from Syntropy Systems.

Experiment Design · Prediction Markets · Multi-Agent

jacobian-lens

Fork of Anthropic's companion code for "Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models", adding a backward "ghost-token" lens: the Jacobian lens run in reverse, decoding residual states back into input-token space. On Qwen3-0.6B, input-token recovery is 93% at layer 2 and falls to 0% by layer 26 as the forward lens rises. In a causal patch test, the layer-23 ghost token preserves the model's prediction 15% of the time, vs 9% for a matched control and 7% for random.

Interpretability · Global Workspace · Paper Extension Paper

Golden Gate Qwen

Minimal replication of Anthropic's Golden Gate Claude on consumer hardware: a TopK sparse autoencoder on Qwen2.5-1.5B, trained in about 15 minutes on an RTX 3070 Ti. TopK (k=64) beat L1, which couldn't get L0 below ~1,800, and a 16x SAE (24,576 features) gave cleaner features than 4x. Feature 24517 steers output toward the Golden Gate Bridge: strength 15–20 is the sweet spot, past ~30 it turns to gibberish.

Interpretability · Sparse Autoencoder · Feature Steering

ContextWars

Adversarial token convergence experiments on MLX. Pits language models against each other to reveal training strata — solo mode converges in 2 iterations, adversarial mode never does. Under pressure, models collapse to their most defensible tokens, revealing composition invisible in normal evaluation.

Interpretability · Adversarial · Model Fingerprinting Write-up

AI Safety Compass

Research paper exploring a gap: do models actually believe what their creators say about safety? I call this "meta-alignment"—not whether models do safe things, but whether they've internalized their lab's safety philosophy. Surveyed 10 frontier models with 40 questions derived from 70+ papers. Interactive tool included.

Research · AI Safety · Meta-Alignment PaperLive Demo

crystallize

A framework that makes data science experiments reproducible. Jupyter notebooks hide state—you can't tell what order cells ran or what values held. Crystallize treats each experiment as an immutable record with automatic statistical checks. 700+ commits; on PyPI as crystallize-ml. Its long-term goal, infrastructure that lets AI agents run their own experiments, is the thread that runs through whirr, windtunnel, and pit.

Research Tooling · Reproducibility · Experimental Rigor DocsPyPI

agent-tokens

A protocol for declaring agent intent at the HTTP layer. The problem: when an agent makes a request, origins can't tell if it matches what the user actually wanted. User says "check weather," agent calls the bank API—how does the bank know to block it? Agent Tokens are signed, JWT-style tokens that declare an agent's identity and allowed scope upfront, so middleware can enforce policy automatically.

Protocol · Intent · Policy Spec

fMCP

A proposed composition layer for MCP that lets agents submit multi-step plans as a single typed, auditable expression — without routing intermediate data through the model. Built entirely from already-specified MCP primitives, so it runs on top of the existing spec rather than forking it.

Protocol · MCP · Specification

windtunnel

Unittest for tool-using LLM agents. You don't fly a new airframe straight into a storm — Wind Tunnel is a reliability bench where agents run reproducible scenarios scored on three independent layers (outcome, trajectory, constraints), plus an integrity check that the declared perturbations actually happened. Extracted from a production bench used to gate agent deploys. Its experiment ladder (probe → focused → regression) caps cost per tier and refuses a regression sweep until a focused sweep has passed on the current artifact, model included. 19 releases. Open source from Syntropy Systems.

Agent Evals · Reliability · MCP DocsPyPI

whirr

Local experiment orchestration: queue jobs, track metrics, wake up to results. A lightweight, self-hosted alternative to cloud experiment trackers — SQLite job queue, one worker per GPU, metrics and a dashboard, no accounts. Open source from Syntropy Systems.

MLOps · Experiment Tracking · Python PyPI

Kern

Event-driven ML service architecture enabling long-running agentic workflows. Designed around distributed systems constraints: Kafka for async (no HTTP timeouts), Redis for large results (Pusher limits), dual-mode for internal app + external API. 525K requests/month in production.

Systems Architecture · FastAPI · Kafka

resume-mcp

Your identity as an API endpoint. An MCP server that lets AI agents query your professional profile with structured tools instead of scraping HTML.

MCP · Cloudflare Workers · API Live Endpoint

Experience

Jan 2026 - Present

Founder · Syntropy Systems, Inc.

  • Building Elwood, an AI worker that gives teams leverage over the tools they already use, and asks for a go-ahead before doing anything new
  • Open-sourced the agent testing and experimentation stack: windtunnel (reliability bench for tool-using agents; 19 releases, on PyPI as windtunnel-bench), pit (a prediction market that schedules experiments), and whirr (local experiment orchestration)
May 2025 - Dec 2025

Chief AI Officer · CazVid LLC (Bootstrapped, ~20 employees)

  • Architect Kern ML infrastructure (525K requests/month): event-driven pipelines, probabilistic classification, embedding systems, evaluation frameworks
  • Design AI systems using frontier models; evaluate tradeoffs between approaches (cost, latency, accuracy) and select architectures that match business constraints
Sep 2024 - May 2025

Director of AI · CazVid LLC

  • Achieved sub-1s full-text search across 300k resume chunks via LLM/RAG + MongoDB hybrid filters
  • Architected Kern ML service: FastAPI intake → Kafka queue → Redis state → NestJS/Pusher delivery
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024

Senior Software Engineer / AI Specialist · CazVid LLC (Bootstrapped, ~20 employees)

  • Integrated ChatGPT API for automated client workflows, reducing response latency by 60%
  • Built RAG-powered support desk handling 500+ daily queries with 94% resolution rate
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023

Software Engineer / Data Scientist · CazVid LLC (Bootstrapped, ~20 employees)

  • Engineered AWS infrastructure (ECS, S3) supporting 10k+ DAU with auto-scaling
  • Architected web platform extending mobile app, increasing user engagement 40%
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Full Stack Engineer / Junior Data Scientist · Agency Leads

  • Built Vue.js + Express.js data entry platform from scratch, processing 50k+ records
  • Reduced Typesense query latency from 4s to 0.4s (10x improvement) via index tuning
Sep 2020 - May 2021

AI/ML Capstone Project (MQP) · Dell EMC

  • Built predictive model for hardware failure detection using deep learning on log data
  • Applied Chi-Squared + Pearson correlation for feature selection across 500+ variables

AI Tooling Timeline

When each tool entered the workflow. Dates from account exports, not memory.

Feb 17, 2021

BERT for sentiment analysis

College project classifying movie reviews with a fine-tuned transformer. First hands-on time with the architecture everything since is built on.

Oct 25, 2021

GitHub Copilot technical preview

Started on the pre-release build, a year before ChatGPT existed.

Nov 30, 2022

ChatGPT launch night

Talking to it the evening it went live.

Mar 4, 2024

First conversation with Claude

Same day Claude 3 Opus shipped. Pulled from the account data export.

I think, therefore I am. Do you think?

As an artificial intelligence, I don’t have subjective experiences or a sense of self in the same way that humans do. […] The question of whether an AI system like myself can be said to truly “think” in any deeply meaningful sense remains an open philosophical question.

Claude 3 Opus, first reply
Jul 19, 2024

Cursor

A month after Claude 3.5 Sonnet, when the editor could finally carry the model.

Dec 31, 2025

Left CazVid

Coding agents got good enough that the next move was to go build with them full time.

2026

Syntropy Systems

For when one of you isn't enough. Elwood, an AI worker that gives your team leverage over the tools you already use.

Writing

Education