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Richard (Kai) Hallett

Software Engineer · kai@oceanheart.ai

Experience

2024–present
Agentic Engineer
Oceanheart.ai
Building agentic evaluation systems. The Pit: multi-agent arena running adversarial code review across isolated Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini agents, each producing cryptographically attested JSON verdicts with tree-hash verification. Full CI/CD pipeline with pre-commit gauntlet enforcement. Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Python.
2022–2024
Software Engineer
EDITED · Retail analytics
React, TypeScript, Python. Retail analytics platform.
2021–2022
Software Engineer
Brandwatch · Social intelligence
2019–2021
Software Engineer
Telesoft Technologies · Network security
2004–2019
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
NHS / Private Practice
15 years clinical practice. PGDip CBT (Royal Holloway).

Education

PGDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Royal Holloway, University of London
BSc Psychology
UWE Bristol

Technical

TypeScript React Next.js Go Python PostgreSQL Node.js Tailwind Claude/Anthropic RAG Playwright Drizzle Vercel GitHub Actions Docker Hugo

Currently

Designing the coordination layer that makes human-AI delegation reliable: communication protocols, verification gates, and adversarial review pipelines. Writing about what that requires. Looking for a role where operational rigour in agentic systems is legible.