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What I'm doing now
A snapshot of my current focus, inspired by the /now page convention. This file gets a small edit whenever priorities shift.
Job search
Open to all types of roles. W2 preferred. Most of my experience is in streaming video, and lately in AI-native development and Chromecast.
If you're reading this and the shape sounds right, reach me at walter@pollardjr.com.
Building
- walter.pollardjr.com: this site. Next.js 15 with a static export to IONOS, doubles as a Chromecast sender for the companion receiver app.
- JobTrackr: a SvelteKit 5 dashboard I built to keep the application pipeline coherent across listings, drafts, and outreach.
- RipTheAI: a Twitch chatbot with dual AI personalities and contextual response routing. Side project; learning ground for agentic patterns.
- A video editing engine, finished in DaVinci Resolve: tooling that finds the beats and word times in the audio and lays out frame-exact cuts, then hands the edit to DaVinci Resolve for the finishing pass. The aim is one engine that works on any footage.
- Daily agentic workflows: Claude Code as primary editor, chaining sub-agents for research, build, and review across these projects.
Experimenting with
- Multi-machine memory sync: figuring out a flow for sharing my Claude memory state across workstations so a session started on one picks up cleanly on another.
- ComfyUI as a Claude target: testing how far an agent can actually drive multi-node graph editing, custom node authoring, and image generation pipelines. The ultimate Claude application as far as I'm concerned.
- Plan, draft, spec, handoff, implement, review: shaping multi-agent flows around that sequence, with me sitting between each step instead of letting the chain run unattended. The friction points are usually at the seams, not inside any one step.
Reading and learning
- Local LLM workflows and prompt engineering as a daily practice, not a one-off curiosity.
- Chromecast CAF internals revisited. Last touched these at Comcast on Xfinity Stream; the sender side of this portfolio is where I'm working through them again.
- Re-evaluating my old Polymer and Lit work for what still translates to modern React patterns and what is genuinely new ground.