Engineer at SpaceXAI · Developer Advocate · Advisor

Michael Lynn I help people build with data & AI.

I'm an engineer at SpaceXAI, working on GTM, revenue operations, and internal tools for Customer Success. For fifteen years I've turned complex ideas into clear talks, open-source projects, and hands-on workshops — helping developers and teams adopt AI-driven tools and modern data platforms.

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Based in the Northeast US

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ArtFrame turns a Google TV into a gallery.

Museum paintings in 4K whenever the TV is idle, a glass information screen between them, and every card on it opens with the remote. A Mac app finds the TV, installs it and fills it with art.

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15+

Years in tech

200+

Talks given

50K+

Developers reached

11+

Open projects

What I do

Turning hard problems into things people can build with.

Developer Advocacy

Meeting developers where they are — talks, workshops, and writing that turn dense platform concepts into things people can actually build with.

Data & AI Platforms

Fifteen years helping teams adopt modern databases and, more recently, AI-native tooling — retrieval, vector search, and agents grounded in real data.

Advising & Speaking

Working with founders and engineering teams as an advisor, and taking the stage at conferences to share what is working and what is still hard.

Selected work

Things I've built

All projects

ArtFrame: Hanging Museum Art on a Google TV

My TV spends most of the day off, so I turned its screensaver into a gallery: museum paintings in 4K, a glass information screen between them, and every card on it opens with the remote. A Mac app sets it all up.

Kotlin

Android TV DreamService

Swift / SwiftUI

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Live

Fiscal Quarter: The Quarter in Your Menu Bar

I do work that's measured by the fiscal quarter, and I built this Mac menu bar app to always know where we are in the quarter and the year. It has desktop widgets and an iPhone app, and it's open source.

Lozenge: A Teleprompter the Room Can't See

A native macOS teleprompter that follows your voice through the script, and a listener for the conversation after it. Every window is left out of screen capture, and every model call uses your own key or a local model.

Your Client Can Tell

I built a tool that marks every phrase in a draft that gives it away as machine-written, rewrites around them without moving a date or a caveat you wrote, and can learn your voice from a ten-minute spoken interview.

LanceScope: A Workbench for Reading LanceDB Datasets

A console, CLI, MCP server, and macOS app for understanding a LanceDB database — schema, versions, indices, fragments and rows, with the byte cost of every read shown as you go.

Claude Triage API

A reference customer-support triage service on the Claude API — eleven labs, a fake outdoor retailer where you can file a ticket and watch it get classified live, and an open-source version you can point at your own helpdesk.

From the journal

Latest writing

All posts

September 18, 2026

I Built a Teleprompter Because My Screen Share Kept Showing My Notes

Lozenge started as a prompter for live demos and went through four names before one stuck. The one thing that never changed was that the audience can't see the window.

September 6, 2026

Wire Grok Bot to a Local LLM on Your Mac

How I wired my Grok Bot agent fleet to oMLX on Apple Silicon for private local inference - architecture, setup steps, benefits, drawbacks, and a copy-paste agent brief.

September 3, 2026

A LanceDB Table Can Hold 2.65 GB of Video While a Search Over It Reads None

The bytes a search touches and the bytes a table holds live in different files. LanceScope measures both, from Lance's own IO counters, and puts the number next to whatever you just did.

On stage

Recent talks

All engagements

Sep 2025

Hello, New York.

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Sep 2025

MongoDB Developer Day Charlotte

The Mint Museum – Uptown

Aug 2025

MongoDB—Redefining the Database in the AI Era

MGM Grand

May 2025

MongoDB Developer Day Dallas

Microsoft Technology Center

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