Saman Mathew Badakhshan

I'm a Principal Engineer in London, working on applied AI. I have a BSc (Hons) in Music Informatics from the University of Sussex, and I still make music: production, digital synthesis, and algorithmic composition.

I work across the stack; lately that means platforms and applied AI, including agentic tools and local inference when I've run them on my own machine. I use generative AI when it helps with the music or the digital art. This site is notes from that work, plus general engineering when there's something useful to say. I write it for people building internal platforms and tools. I still write code, and I use the tools I write about.

I collect cameras, film and digital, and photograph as an amateur. I'll write about the cameras and the music tech here now and then. I'm a dad, and I travel when I can. Recent trips have been Spain, France, Italy, Morocco and Tunisia. I photograph those to keep a record, and I'll start posting some of the pictures here.