Software engineer & AI researcher

Yosef Shammout

Building reliable AI systems.

I build local software, systems for AI agents, and experiments that test how they behave. Based in Detroit.

Incoming Software Engineer at Ford

Wayne State CS · Graduating December 2026

Accepted for poster presentation, AIDaR Workshop at NeurIPS 2026
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Engineering & research

Selected work.

Recent releases and research, with walkthroughs of how they work.

Native macOS · Local inference

Local Dictation

Native Mac dictation with on-device speech recognition, local correction, and guarded text placement.

Released · v1.3.0

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Mirage / Action boundaryCI mode
Illustrative example · A bid of 99,999 exceeds the 10,000 limit. The violation is recorded and the CI gate fails.

Open-source agent infrastructure

Mirage

Deterministic policy enforcement for routed agent HTTP requests, with recorded decisions and CI gates.

Open source · Published as mirage-ci

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Experience

Where I’ve
worked.

Incoming Software Engineer at Ford

Full-time return offer accepted September 2026. Team and start date to be confirmed.

October 2025 – Present

Wayne State University

Undergraduate Research Assistant

First author of eICU-KG with Dr. Lihui Liu. Current focus: large language models (LLMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs).

Summers 2025 & 2026

Ford Motor Company

Software Engineering Intern

Owned four production Python/Airflow pipelines. Co-built a repair-quote AI prototype and handed it to full-time engineers for production preparation.

August 2024 – February 2025

Code Emergency

Co-founder & Lead Engineer

Built a patient-maintained medical-profile platform across its data model, API, frontend, and QR access flow.

May – August 2024

SamSearch

Software Engineering Intern

Built retrieval-augmented government-contract search and reduced production p95 response time by 40% through async Python optimization.

A little about me

About me.

Detroit, Michigan

Wayne State University
B.S. Computer Science · December 2026

I'm Yosef, a Computer Science student at Wayne State in Detroit and an incoming software engineer at Ford.

I build local software, agent infrastructure, and research tools. Outside work, I'm into cars, fitness, and family.

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