Mike Cornelia
0-to-1 builder. Technology and the people who run it.
Two decades doing two things: building technology that didn’t exist before, and building teams that produce work nobody thought possible.
They’re not separate skills. The same instincts that make me a good systems engineer make me a good leader: pattern recognition, root-cause thinking, the discipline to kill a bad bet early.
I love the technology. I love the people. I’ve never bought the idea that you can be great at one without the other.
// what I’m building
- EDI — always-on Chief-of-Staff agent that never forgets, hooked into LLMs, my calendar, email, and a knowledge base of everything I’ve ever worked on
- Glyph — Messenger agent running on OpenClaw (an open-source agent framework I run locally), reachable from my phone
- mcornelia.com — this site, edited entirely through Claude Code
- room-layout-tool, openclaw-setup-guide, an in-browser Asteroids clone
// how I work
- Daily Claude Code & OpenClaw user for both work and personal tasks
- Anthropic API for personal monitoring, home automation, and operational dashboards
- Custom morning briefs and data pushes, project knowledge graphs
- You name it, I’ve automated it (or I’m trying to)
// outside the lab
Cooking food that’s probably too spicy. Several half and full Ironman triathlons. Woodworking. Gaming with friends — yes, EDI and Glyph are both Mass Effect AI characters. Athens, GA with my partner Aimee and our two dogs Olive & Huck.