Co-founder and CTO of Contra; the engineering lead behind the marketplace that supplies Contra Labs. A well-known open-source JavaScript/PostgreSQL engineer (Slonik and other libraries) who blogs on engineering and, since 2026, on AI-assisted development and fine-tuning.
Background
Unusual Ventures describes Huffman and Kuizinas as serial entrepreneurs with experience across music tech, telecom, fintech software and entertainment-data aggregation. Before Contra he was building a platform around engineering skills and code analysis, and he met Huffman through On Deck (Everywhere Ventures). His Contra profile describes a technology leader across social networks, entertainment, advertising and Wi-Fi.
What they run now
Contra platform engineering (TheOrg lists about 33 reports; unverified and possibly stale). His 2026 posts cover isolated environments for agentic development (Mar 2026) and using ablation to decide what to fine-tune (May 2026), a sign of hands-on ML work, though none mention Contra Labs. His role in Labs' data pipeline (trajectory capture tooling, arena) is not documented.
Career
- 2019 – presentCo-founder & CTO, Contra (Contra.Work Inc.)
On the record
Agentic development · 2026-03
Advocates isolated development environments for running coding agents safely. source
Fine-tuning · 2026-05
Uses ablation to find what a model actually needs fine-tuning on, including Blender-generated synthetic data for spatial reasoning. source
Recent posts
40 posts archived · most engaged first, then the latest
half of X right now: "Finally, Github alternative."
meanwhile, GitLab:
Neat find: matthart1983/netwatch – your whole network on one screen
Trained fly brains to draw on canvas. First results are promising
The real test for AGI is going to be if it is going to change its answer when you ask "Are you sure?"
Miju Labs