I'm Ted Simonian. Everything I know about building things, I learned by taking them apart.

I've loved making things for as long as I can remember. It started with Lego, the way it does for most kids, though I was less interested in the model on the box than in what held it together. I took everything apart and put it back together again, not always in the right order, and not always in working order.

Then I wrote my first program in high school, and that was that. Software was the one thing I could keep iterating on without cost.

Getting paid to build and make things better turned out to suit me. In 12+ years that has meant building features for an enterprise CRM that handled merchant onboarding for banks, leading the development of a racing marketplace with a real-time auction house, and spearheading an AI automation platform for freight logistics. Most recently I spent two years acting technical lead for LottieFiles' plugins team.

I work remotely, and most of my attention goes to agent infrastructure: instruction architecture, skills libraries, and the autonomous loops that let a team hand real work to an agent and get back something worth reviewing.

I fell for computers the way I had already fallen for games. Mario is what first got me started, at six years old, and that quickly escalated into other genres. I spent most of my childhood living in carefully crafted worlds, with deep stories and well-thought-out characters. I came to appreciate these qualities more than just the scores the games provided.

So eventually I built a world of my own. The agents I spend my days on are a large part of why one person can now take on what I only imagined as a kid. Wildermarch is a hex-tile strategy game I'm still building, end to end from the rules engine out: face-down tiles to explore, secret win conditions dealt to each player, and nothing as simple as a score to chase. The board on the front of this site is made from its tiles.