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AJ Roetker

AJ Roetker

CTO

AJ is Antfly's CTO and resident mad scientist. When they're not cooking up the next thing in the lab, they're running parkour lines or captaining their soccer team, Stanky Panky.

Published

  1. · Research

    A Search-and-Inference Database from Scratch in Pure Zig

    Why we rewrote Antfly's Go engine in Zig while the startup was still early: first principles, caring about the model instead of the embeddings, TigerBeetle-style simulation testing, and what the rewrite made possible.

  2. · Research

    Building a Distributed Search Engine in Pure Go

    How we built the Antfly engine in Go: Multi-Raft consensus, SIMD-accelerated vectors, and local ML inference, all in one static binary.