Skills
Six areas of practice. Each page has projects, decisions, and proof points underneath.
- AI / Agentic Systems Read →
AI and agent systems, LLM calls behind typed adapters, contract-governed review stages, reproducible pipelines. John Montgomery's AI-engineering approach.
- Design & Brand Read →
Design and brand work: custom themes, SCSS, hand-authored landing pages. 20 years of front-end plus visual identity on John Montgomery's own sites.
- Knowledge Graphs & Wiki Systems Read →
Knowledge graphs and wiki systems: Obsidian + Quartz research wikis, entity taxonomies, and case-study sites. Includes SignalTrace.
- Python Services & Data Pipelines Read →
Python services and data pipelines: ingestion, snapshot hashing, CLI tools, structured logging. Engineering across quant and research work.
- Quant Engineering Read →
Quant engineering: research platforms, screening, and backtesting with honest evaluation. Includes the EdenFintech scanner and shelved insider-signal research.
- WordPress & PHP Craft Read →
Custom WordPress, WooCommerce, and PHP development. 20+ years of bespoke builds and Postgres-backed operational sites by John Montgomery, under the legacy YourDesign name.
