What I'm doing now

Job search

Open to senior software engineer roles in streaming video, AI-native development, and Chromecast / CAF work. Currently exploring contract engagements alongside full-time opportunities. Remote.

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.
• 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.