Majid Asghari.
I build products and intelligent systems where product strategy, engineering, and real-world constraints meet. The portfolio below is the public record of that work.
Production systems, not side projects.
Phoenix
Production-grade, fail-closed financial intelligence and execution system for Arbitrum.
Smart Trader
A decision-intelligence trading system: market structure, behavior signals, and explicit risk gates.
Free Best Router
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint that automatically discovers, ranks, and routes to the best available free AI model.
Universal Engineering Agent
A profile-agnostic, runnable, MIT-licensed reference implementation of an engineering-agent operating-kernel contract.
How I think about systems.
Build for the real constraint
Systems are constrained by the boring parts: data quality, latency, fees, signers, deploys, recovery. The interesting parts are easy by comparison. Optimize for the boring parts first.
Make uncertainty explicit
If the system does not know something, the system must say so. Hiding uncertainty turns honest signals into dangerous actions.
Separate intelligence from authority
The component that computes opportunity must not be the component that holds the keys. Authority is granted through explicit gates, not proximity to the model.
Measure economic reality, not proxy metrics
Transaction count, gross spread, and modelled PnL are intermediate signals. Realized net PnL after every actual cost is the only authority.
Production is part of the product
Deployment, rollback, observability, and reconciliation are product capabilities. A system that cannot be safely released is not a product.
Prefer systems that fail safely
When uncertainty grows, authority should shrink. Fail-closed is not slow — fail-closed is fast at refusing the wrong thing.
Product, AI, systems, engineering — applied.
Product
Strategy, discovery, marketplace mechanics, growth, monetization, experimentation, and analytics — applied to systems that have to ship.
- Product strategy and discovery
- Marketplace and platform products
- Growth and monetization
- Experimentation and ranking
- Analytics and operator dashboards
AI / Agents
Models are not the product. Routing, harnesses, evaluation, tooling, and feedback loops are.
- AI engineering
- Agent architecture and operating kernels
- Model routing and provider abstraction
- Harnesses and tool hygiene
- Evaluation and failure classification
Systems
Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, observability, reliability, economic controls, and pipelines.
- Distributed systems
- Event-driven architecture (NATS, queues)
- Observability (Prometheus, dashboards)
- Reliability and protected release
- Economic controls and risk gates
Engineering
Languages and infrastructure I have shipped against. Each one earned its place on a real system.
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Solidity
What building taught me.
Reliability beats cleverness
A profitable-looking opportunity is irrelevant if the underlying state is uncertain. Phoenix exists to make that sentence structurally true.
engineering02Economic correctness matters
A strategy can be technically correct and economically wrong. The job of an execution system is to be the second kind of correct.
systems03Production is part of the product
Deployment, rollback, observability, and reconciliation are product capabilities. Without them, "live" is not a meaningful word.
architecture04AI needs infrastructure
Models are not the product by themselves. Routing, context, evaluation, tools, and feedback loops are. Free Best Router and UEA are the same lesson at different layers.
ai05Fail-closed is different from fast
When execution has real consequences, uncertainty must reduce authority rather than trigger action.
systems06Product thinking changes engineering
Architecture should exist because of a user / business / system problem, not because a technology is fashionable.
productWhat I am working on right now.
The active surfaces are Phoenix (production-observation mode on Arbitrum), Smart Trader (decision intelligence on a live market), Free Best Router (v0.1.0 shipped; expanding provider coverage and scoring), and Universal Engineering Agent (reference implementation, working through profile and harness integrations).
If any of that overlaps with what you are building, I would like to hear about it.