Hey, I'm Maximus Putnam
Founder of Penguin, building Link (an AI workspace for projects, chat, and automation) and penguin (a software-engineering agent).
I'm focused on agentic reasoning, orchestration, memory, tool use, and cost-efficient inference (vLLM/SGLang). I think in systems, enjoy clean execution, and bias toward shipping.
- Previously: self-taught SWE; built web stacks → Python for agent cognitive architectures.
- Interests: AI agents & cognition, neuroscience, semiconductors & US manufacturing, robotics/automation, energy (esp. nuclear & geothermal), civic infrastructure, theology & church history, and the occasional game design experiment.
Note: this site is intentionally minimum-viable retro: no frameworks, just HTML/CSS/JS.