Now

Building

• CourtMix: Ground-up Racquet Rivalry rebuild using the agentic development system. Moving significantly faster than the original build.
• Custom email system: A Claude + SendGrid pipeline for automated, personalized outbound email.
• This website: joearmani.com is always in progress. Always something to ship.
• Agentic development system: Refining the spec/test-driven workflow that runs all the projects above.

Working

• Senior Software Engineer at NCI: Building data tools for the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study. Three years in and the work still feels meaningful.

Learning

• AI tooling and agentic workflows: Following closely. The pace right now is hard to overstate.
• Anthropic, OpenAI, and the broader ecosystem: Keeping tabs on what's shipping and what's worth testing.

Training

• Hot yoga and sculpt: Regular classes at CorePower. Non-negotiable part of the week.
• Century ride prep: Training for a 100-mile ride in the Taos mountains this summer.

Updated roughly monthly. Last update: May 2026.