Nate
Lemos
AI / agent engineer. I build tool-using AI systems on real data — and have opinions about them.
Currently at Silktide, building with Claude + MCP. 10+ years shipping at scale. TypeScript at work, C# at heart.
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About me
Nate Lemos is an AI / agent engineer at Silktide, where he builds production agentic systems on LLMs, the Anthropic SDK, and MCP. Formerly on Microsoft Azure and the Halo Infinite backend at 343 Industries, he builds AI tooling and developer products and writes about AI, software engineering, and developer tools from San Antonio, Texas.
If you're mapping my work, start with Cooking with Robots, makingfriends.app, my NuGet packages, and the blog.
I've been writing software professionally since 2013. Started at a small company in Brazil doing C#, eventually moved to the US and worked at 343 Industries on the Halo Infinite backend, then spent about two and a half years at Microsoft on the Azure Portal team. I owned the Disks blade, which gets something like 100k hits a week.
Now I'm at Silktide building agentic systems on their AI platform — the Studio Agent (LangChain DeepAgents, multi-provider LLM routing, MCP tools) and an SEO/AEO reporting pipeline, on a product used by 1,000+ organizations. Day to day it's a lot of TypeScript, talking to LLMs, and figuring out why the model gave a confident wrong answer again.
I've worked across most of the stack at this point. React, .NET, Kafka, Docker, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes. I don't really have a strong preference anymore, I just like building things that work.
Outside of work I play guitar with a passion, DM a D&D campaign, mess around with 3D printing, and play too many games on my Steam Deck. I have two dogs, two cats, and a flock of quails in the backyard. They're louder than you'd think.
Cooking with Robots
cookingwithrobots.com
A recipe and meal planning app I've been building. It has around 160 recipes with allergy filtering, a hands-free cooking mode (so you don't have to touch your phone with raw chicken hands), and an AI assistant called "Grandma Bot" that can look at what's in your pantry and plan your week.
makingfriends.app
makingfriends.app
An AI-powered local friend-matching app. It clusters people nearby, generates real local events to bring them together, and spins up group chats so the connection actually happens offline. Currently in early access.
Work history
Silktide
AI / Agent Engineer May 2025 – PresentOn the AI product team, building the agentic systems and reporting infrastructure behind a web-quality platform used by 1,000+ organizations. I built the Silktide Studio Agent — a production agent on LangChain DeepAgents with a virtual filesystem, multi-provider LLM routing, and MCP tools — and the SEO/AEO reporting pipeline that runs from Google Search Console through LLM backfill into onboarding. Day to day it's Claude, the Anthropic SDK, and MCP, both to build the product and to ship faster.
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II Aug 2022 – Jan 2025Azure Portal team, IaaS Core. I owned the Disks blade (100k+ weekly users). Lot of React, some legacy Knockout.JS that refused to die, and a bunch of backend API integration work.
Fresh Consulting
Software Developer II · Team Lead Aug 2019 – Aug 2022Led a small team building a truck-tracking system for the largest building-materials company on the West Coast — 400+ field drivers and dispatchers on it daily. React and React Native frontends, .NET Core microservices, Kafka, Docker, AWS. Good team, learned a lot about running things in production.
343 Industries
Software Design Engineer III Oct 2018 – Aug 2019Built the stats backend for Halo Infinite using .NET and MS Orleans — reactive services powering real-time features at millions-of-players scale. Also did performance work on existing Halo titles and helped coordinate the first client integration of the new game. Still probably the coolest thing on my resume.
Ventron
Senior Software Developer · Scrum Master Feb 2017 – Oct 2017ASP.NET MVC work on a banking platform. The system processed around 400k transactions in its first few months. I was also the person who got the company to switch to Git, which felt like a bigger achievement at the time.
Fazsoft Solutions
Software Developer 2013 – 2017Where I started. Intern to full-time after 8 months. Built all kinds of stuff: healthcare apps, finance tools, event management. Also did an Industry 4.0 project for a German auto-parts manufacturer, which was my first experience working with an international client.
Projects
Cooking with Robots
Recipe and meal planning app. ~160 recipes, allergy filtering, hands-free cooking mode, and an AI assistant that plans your groceries.
Next.js · Tailwind · Prisma · fly.io Side ProjectAI Companion System
A personal AI setup I built on top of Obsidian and Claude Code. It has persistent memory across sessions, can browse the web, manage my calendar, and I talk to it through Telegram. Wrote a blog post about it.
Claude Code · Obsidian · Telegram · Node.js · fly.io My Productmakingfriends.app
AI-powered local friend-matching. It clusters people nearby, generates real local events to bring them together, and spins up group chats. Currently in early access.
Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · fly.ioN2tl.EventBroker
Observer pattern as an EventBroker for .NET dependency injection. Published on NuGet.
C# · NuGet · CQRSHtmlAgilityPack.NetCore.Query
CSS selector support for HtmlAgilityPack. Maintained for 7+ years.
C# · BSD-3nlemos.api.framework
Base framework for ASP.NET apps with common startup patterns and event streaming.
C# · ASP.NET Core · MITBoards.js
Trello-like collaboration tool built with Angular and Redux.
JavaScript · Angular · ReduxLatest Posts
Your agent is the operating system now
I feel like every dev I know and their grandmas have written their own AI assistant, so I decided to write my own: Clawdia. I'm not alone.
My wife is a vibe-coder, now what?
My wife has never written a line of code. She doesn't know what a function is. She thinks "React" is something you do after someone scares you. Last week she built her first app.
The Great AI Migration — 700K Cancellations and What Comes Next
I use Claude every day. It's woven into how I write, how I build, and how I think through problems — to the point where my wife calls it "the other relationship".