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Patrick Tanna

Building boutique AI systems for work, play, and discovery.

CNN → Sony Pictures → Nordstrom | HauteLook → Central Group → Amazon → Honest Financial Technologies · and after dark, the lab

AI-Patrick

A real-time digital twin that runs entirely on one desk.

[avatars · speech · applied-ai]

Honey

An always-listening companion — with a confirmation gate, an audit log, and a kill switch.

[speech · avatars · home-automation]

The Archive

Twenty years of one life, parsed into a graph that answers questions.

[knowledge-graphs · data-engineering]

FangDai · ฟังได้

Live English rooms, captioned in Thai, per speaker, on-device — for deaf Thai listeners.

[accessibility · speech · native-apps]

The Trading Brain

A self-improving research loop that must prove itself on paper — and ask a human — before anything real.

[quant-trading · knowledge-graphs · infrastructure]

Even Glasses

An AI coding agent in a pair of smart glasses — tool permissions approved with a finger ring.

[applied-ai · native-apps · speech]

Creator Studio

One local app over the whole media-generation stack — image, video, voice, music. It rendered parts of this site.

[applied-ai · broadcast · infrastructure]

Honest Analytics

Customer business analytics with automated reporting for a credit-card fintech — every query runs as the viewer, never a service account.

[product · data-engineering]

Risk Controls

Compliance, streamlined: control testing and regulatory requirements enforced simply — a 55-tab spreadsheet became software.

[product · data-engineering · infrastructure]

there is more beneath

stratigraphic record

active layer Bangkok · 2024 – − 6 m

Still being deposited

Back in Bangkok, building credit products for Indonesia’s mass market — people holding their first card. I study spending habits the way I once studied shopping carts, except the win is different now: good credit habits taking root, limits earned rather than granted, and the quiet pride of watching your own financial health grow.

[archive: Honest Financial Technologies · 2024 –]

[archive: first-card credit products · Indonesian mass market]

[archive: this layer is still being deposited]

Some habits I coach. Some I keep.

stratum I Seattle · 2022 – 2023 − 12 m

Personalization at planetary scale

At Amazon I tuned personalization for hundreds of millions of people I would never meet. The machine learned tastes at a scale no single mind could hold — and some nights, walking home in the rain, I wondered what it would mean to point all of that at exactly one person.

[archive: Amazon · Senior PM · P3 ML personalization platform]

[archive: +18% Prime acquisition, Q3 2022 YoY]

The org chart said senior. The apartment said barely moved in.

stratum II Bangkok · 2019 – 2022 − 21 m

The city where both languages worked

Bangkok was a return, not an arrival — the language was already mine. I ran product for a retail empire in a city that never fully sleeps, and when the pandemic locked the doors, groceries went digital overnight and our systems carried four times the weight without breaking.

[archive: Central Group · Head of Product → VP of Product]

[archive: 4× online grocery surge, 2020 · held]

[archive: EN/TH bilingual]

A city that never fully sleeps will keep any vice you bring it company.

stratum III Los Angeles · 2011 – 2019 − 33 m

Teaching storefronts to read minds

In Los Angeles I learned that a storefront is a stage. Movie franchises first, then fashion — I taught search engines to guess what a stranger wanted before she finished typing it. One year they gave the company-wide customer-obsession award to exactly one person, and it was me.

[archive: Sony Pictures Interactive → Onestop → Nordstromrack.com | HauteLook]

[archive: Principal PM → Senior Manager, Search & Personalization]

[archive: Customer Obsessed Award, 2018 · sole company-wide recipient]

[archive: guest lecturer, UCLA Extension — agile product management]

I taught machines desire while practicing very little restraint of my own.

stratum IV Atlanta · 2003 – 2011 − 47 m

The basement of broadcast

Television was a river and we were the riverbed. Eight years at CNN — first keeping the machines alive, then explaining them to the business. I watched the world go from standard definition to high, one rack at a time, and learned that every pipeline is a promise someone has to keep at 3 a.m.

[archive: CNN · 2003–2011 · systems → business analysis]

[archive: SD → HD transition · render farms · media pipelines]

The machines were easier to keep alive than everything else I was supposed to.

stratum V Georgia Tech · 1999 – 2003 − 58 m

Machines first, then the business of machines

I learned the machines first and the business of machines second — computer engineering, then later an MBA to understand why good systems die in bad organizations. Both degrees from the same place. Some roots you keep.

[archive: B.S. Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech]

[archive: M.B.A., Scheller College of Business · marketing]

[archive: certified scrum master, 2013]

I learned systems fast. People took me twenty more years.

stratum VI Georgia · – 1999 − 72 m

Before the feed

In Georgia in the eighties, the feed was a food court. You showed up, you got seen, you learned what everyone was doing by walking a slow lap past the arcade. Presence was the only platform, and logging off meant going home for dinner. I have spent every year since trying to keep what mattered from that world while helping build the one that replaced it.

[archive: photographs in the vault begin 1998]

[archive: messages begin 2006]

[archive: everything earlier lives only in the first narrator]

Not everything from that world survived me. Some of it I let go dark on purpose.

the connective tissue

hover to trace the tissue · the bright points are projects — press one

the civilization

Nothing leaves.

The Tower

Twin-GPU generation rig — images, video, voices. Heavy work happens here, one heavy thing at a time.

The Brain

A laptop with the memory of a small datacenter. Hosts the large local minds.

The Keeper

Small, silent, always on. Serves the archive and keeps the promises.

The Vault

Twelve terabytes of everything — datasets, weights, twenty years of photographs.

The Mesh

The invisible roads between them. Prompts and tokens travel; the weights stay home.

the underground sky

[archive: export 2026-07-28 · aggregates only · no one is named]

© 2026 Patrick Tanna · built on my own hardware · no trackers, no third-party requests, nothing leaves this page

stratum VII sealed − ? m

[archive: older layers detected · excavation pending]