Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Built to keep going.

I’m Connor. I build software, mostly machine learning and the things around it. The rest of the time I’m running very long distances, on skis, up a trail, or on a pickleball court, and fairly often somewhere I haven’t been before. This site is all of it, not just the part that fits on a résumé.

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Connor standing with arms outstretched in front of Skógafoss in Iceland, a rainbow arcing across the spray

Building

Vantix Strategies, and an AI Engineer at UnitedHealthcare

Growing an AI forward deployed engineering firm for businesses looking to optimize their processes, while working full-time as an AI Engineer at UnitedHealthcare.

Updated August 2026

Training for

Superior Fall Trail Race, 100 Miler

100 miles through the Sawtooth Mountains in Lutsen, MN, on 11 September 2026.

Updated August 2026

Last trip

Iceland

Back a few days ago. Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) was in May.

Updated August 2026

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Work

Three of them

What I build

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Machine learning that has to survive contact with messy real input, and mobile apps that had to pass review and then keep working. Three below; the rest, including the old high-school stuff, is on the work page.

2026

Luup

A SaaS platform that finds the people worth knowing in a network you already have.

Surfaces professional connections by shared criteria (alumni, past employers, location) with a dashboard for matches, companies, and roles, AI-generated outreach emails, and a discovery feed that keeps suggesting new people.

TypeScriptNode.jsPostgresGoogle Gemini

2025

Py-Doc

Document-layout computer vision, published on PyPI as an open-source library.

Makes document-layout CV and OCR accessible from a few lines of Python. An object-detection CNN trained on IBM's PubLayNet dataset parses the structure of a page, then Tesseract extracts the text region by region rather than treating the page as one flat block.

PythonComputer VisionOCROpen Source

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2023

TikTok Watermark Remover

Object detection plus inpainting, trained end to end to erase a moving watermark.

A YOLOv7 detector locates the watermark frame by frame, since it drifts around the video and a fixed mask will not work. Computer-vision inpainting then reconstructs what was behind it. The interesting part was the training data: the detector needed watermarks composited over enough backgrounds that it learned the mark rather than the content underneath.

PyTorchYOLOv7Computer VisionPython

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Activities

Off the desk

The rest of the week

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Running is the constant: at least a mile every day for the last four years. Everything else takes the months that suit it, and Minnesota does most of that scheduling.