Independent engineer · New York

Human instinct.
Machine scale.

I’m Isaac. I build AI-powered products and the systems behind them. Curious by default. Hands-on from the first experiment to the shipped app.

Explore a system See what I’ve built

01 / Under the hoodFollow the thinking.

An interactive system walkthrough

From a messy internet to a better match.

Built by Isaac

PHURN / DISCOVERY ENGINEClick a stage to inspect

Product data becomes understanding. Interaction becomes taste.

Enable JavaScript to explore the interactive models. Phurn connects collection, visual enrichment, semantic search, and learned preferences. Pickpockt connects sports data, feature preparation, model forecasts, publication, and evaluation.

02 / Things in the worldSelected work

Built to be used.

Real products. Different problems.
The same urge to figure it out.

Taste, translated.

Phurn

Independent project

Furniture discovery that learns your taste. Browser-assisted collection, visual enrichment, and semantic search connect a messy catalog to a better match.

AI search · Personalization · MobileInside the system

Find the signal.

Pickpockt

Founder & sole developer

Sports intelligence, built end to end. Data pipelines and prediction models power a shared web and mobile product with an inspectable track record.

Machine learning · Web · iOSInside the system

TenantLinkMobile & web architecture BudgetSnapAI budget analysis & retrieval workflows Foster Digital SolutionsMy independent engineering practice

03 / The person at the controlsStill very human

Serious about the work.
Curious about everything.

Away from the keyboard

Usually thinking about the next build.
Occasionally thinking about the next run.

I’m an independent software engineer and the founder of Foster Digital Solutions. I studied computer science at RPI, raced with the varsity ski team, and keep finding new things I want to build.

I work across products, infrastructure, and AI workflows. I like understanding the whole system—and making the complicated parts feel simple to the person using it.

More about me

04 / The next interesting thingLet’s make it happen.

Have something
interesting in mind?

A product to build, an AI workflow to explore, or an idea you can’t leave alone.

ifoster01@gmail.com