Hey.
I’m JP. I build AI agent tooling and internal systems, and the technology that keeps conservation work running. Technical Director at Nuvio. Founder of BioAxis. Co-founder of Rhino Repro.
Build things that ship.
I work where engineering meets biology, building practical systems for teams doing precise, hands-on work.
At Nuvio, where I’m Technical Director, I lead agent tooling and internal infrastructure. I run BioAxis, building software for veterinary, agricultural and bioscience teams. As an independent consultant I work with wildlife operators on lab tooling, data systems and field instrumentation.
I co-founded Rhino Repro in 2016 to apply assisted reproductive techniques — oocyte recovery, ICSI, cryopreservation — to South Africa’s most threatened rhino. Genetics tells us what to save; engineering builds the things that let us save it.
Where I have been.
Projects.
Companies I run, a non-profit I co-founded, and the open-source tools and apps I build along the way.
Nuvio
A South African software house building agent tooling, internal systems and bespoke engineering.
BioAxis
A suite of standalone apps for veterinary, agricultural and bioscience teams — VetAxis, GenAxis, NoteAxis, StaffAxis.
Interns
A self-hosted crew of AI agents that triage your inbox, brief you before meetings and review pull requests. They draft; you approve.
Rhino Repro
Assisted reproductive techniques — oocyte recovery, ICSI, cryopreservation — to extend the genetic future of endangered rhino.
Roampin
A travel logging app — drop pins, write notes, build a quiet atlas of where you have been.
GitHub
An archive of tools, prototypes, and side projects — agent tooling, dev utilities and design experiments.
Interns.
A crew of AI agents that work for you, run by the Coordinator. They draft; you approve.
- Zara · OpsWatches the servers; speaks up only when needed.
- Rowan · Chief of staffPlans your day from your calendar and inbox.
- Milo · InboxTells you what you owe people and drafts the replies.
- Iris · ResearchComes back with sourced, readable answers.
- Nia · MeetingsBriefs you before meetings, asks how they went after.
- Pia · WritingTurns rough notes into posts in your voice.
- Rhea · Code reviewPrepares PR reviews you publish with one tap.
- Coordinator · Runs the officeHires, routes, schedules and keeps the guardrails on.
Coordinator · Runs the officeHires, routes, schedules and keeps the guardrails on.
Interns — open source, self-hosted, drafts-only.
Interns is a self-hosted crew of persistent AI agents, built on the Claude Agent SDK and run by the Coordinator. Each intern has a name, an animated face, a job, its own memory, tools and a daily budget. You talk to them from a phone app or Discord, and they work on their own too: triaging the inbox, briefing you before meetings, reviewing pull requests, keeping track of who you owe a reply, and giving a morning standup.
Interns draft; you approve. Mail stays in drafts, and a review only publishes when you tap Approve. Open source under MIT.
TypeScript
Node.js
SQLite
Expo PWA
Claude Agent SDK
Microsoft Graph
GitHub App
Discord
Conservation.
“Bridging assisted reproductive science and engineering to preserve the white & black rhino.
Rhino Repro — a non-profit where genetics meets engineering.
Rhino Repro applies artificial reproductive techniques — oocyte recovery, ICSI, and cryopreservation — to extend the genetic future of South Africa’s most threatened megafauna. I co-founded the organisation in 2016 and continue to contribute on the engineering side: lab tooling, data, and the small instruments that make remote field work possible.
It’s where both of my degrees meet in the field: the lab work, the data, and the kit that has to survive the bush.
Field notes.
Quick notes from the lab, the bush and the agent workbench.
Note of the dayInterns is public.
Version 0.1.0 is out under MIT: a self-hosted crew you hire from seven starter templates. They draft; you approve.
github.com/jpdlr/internsTeach by reacting.
Long-press an intern's message: Perfect, Too long, Too formal, Missed the point. When four of its last ten get the same reaction, it moves its own dial, says so and offers Undo.
My edits are lessons.
When I rewrite a draft before sending it, the intern compares the two. Two edits with the same pattern and it asks whether to make it a standing order.
Ten years of Rhino Repro.
We started in 2016. The work hasn't changed: oocyte recovery, ICSI and cryopreservation, to keep the white and black rhino's genetic future open.
Two degrees, one bench.
Genetics taught me what to measure. Engineering taught me how to keep measuring when things break. Field work needs both on the same day.
Open to a good conversation.
For consulting work, conservation tech collaboration, or a chat about agent tooling — drop a line.