Weekly deep dives on context engineering, agent architecture, and building software that builds itself.
Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft (GitHub · Copilot Ecosystem)
I build agentic systems — software that doesn't just assist developers, it collaborates with them. My work lives at the intersection of context engineering, agent governance, and platform architecture.
By day, I work on the GitHub Copilot ecosystem at Microsoft. By night, I run a 43-agent AI home assistant that manages my family's entire life — calendars, meals, finances, health tracking, content creation, and more — all powered by GitHub Copilot CLI.
My core thesis: Make the right thing to do the easy thing to do — for humans AND agents.
I write about what I learn, ship the tools I build, and teach the patterns that actually work. If you're building with AI agents, you're in the right place.
I create content at the frontier of agentic software development. Here's what I write and teach about:
| Pillar | What It Covers |
|---|---|
| 🧠 Context Engineering | Prompt architecture, memory systems, skill files, and making AI agents actually useful |
| 🤖 Agent Skills & Architecture | Multi-agent orchestration, delegation patterns, agent-to-agent communication |
| 🔌 MCP Ecosystem | Model Context Protocol servers, tools, and integrations — including turning your phone into one |
| 🪝 Extension Architecture | Copilot hooks, extensions, governance layers, and guardrails for safe AI coding |
| 🔒 AI Governance | Safe agentic development, content signing, approval workflows, human-in-the-loop patterns |
| ⚙️ Platform Engineering | GitOps for AI, infrastructure-as-code for agent systems, CI/CD with AI in the loop |
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- [Copilot Plugins: Building Domain-Expert AI Teammates](https://htek.dev/articles/copilot-plugins-domain-expert-ai-teammates/) — Build Copilot plugins with domain knowledge, MCP tools, and custom skills so Copilot acts like a specialist teammate, not just autocomplete.- [Custom Copilot Agents: Building Domain-Expert AI Teammates with Skills, MCP Tools, and Custom Knowledge](https://htek.dev/articles/custom-copilot-agents-building-domain-expert-ai-teammates/) — Most teams stop at autocomplete. The real unlock is building custom Copilot agents that know your codebase, workflow, and tools.- [Platform Engineering with GitHub: How to Build an Internal Developer Platform Using Copilot, IssueOps, and Golden-Path Starter Repos](https://htek.dev/articles/platform-engineering-github-internal-developer-platform/) — Stop building Backstage. Your IDP already exists — it's GitHub with Copilot extensions, IssueOps workflows, and golden-path starter repos.- [Aspect-Oriented Programming for AI Agents: Hookflows as an Event Bus](https://htek.dev/articles/aspect-oriented-programming-ai-agents-hookflows/) — One tool call, multiple outcomes, zero extra tokens. How enforcement-triggered side effects bring AOP to autonomous AI agents.- [GitHub Just Shipped What I Built 2 Months Ago — And That's a Good Thing](https://htek.dev/articles/github-copilot-remote-sessions-validates-mobile-first-agents/) — GitHub Copilot's new remote sessions let you control your agent from your phone. I built the same pattern with Telegram in April. Here's why mobile-first agents are inevitable.
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