Asa Shepard
Builder · AI Developer Tools · Incoming at Visa Summer '26
I build tools that make AI coding agents reliable on real codebases; closing the gap between benchmark performance and what actually works in production. Currently focused on developer infrastructure for agents and research on what moves the needle.
Currently
Research
Iterative Repository Guidance Generation for Coding Agents: Effectiveness Depends on Step Budget
Refining repo-level guidance for AI coding agents via synthetic probes; step budget moderates whether guidance helps on SWE-bench Verified (Mar 2026)
draft — unpublished
Recursive RAG Eval (World Wide Technology project)
Evaluation framework for recursive exploration vs retrieval-augmented generation (Jan 2026)
github
Hackathons
Other Projects
Campus Web App
Williams College Marriage Pact analysis (2025–Jan 2026)
williamstf.com (williams.edu only)
FocalRouter
Intelligent request routing for LLM APIs (2025)
github
HeatSheet
F# DSL for optimizing track meet lineups (2025)
github
Minecraft Plugins
Suite of ~10 Java plugins (~2021–2022); first shipped code — top plugin at 7k downloads
dev.bukkit.org
Previously
Yosa
Co-founder; HIPAA-aligned mental wellness platform w/ 30 active providers (2025–2026)
yosaapp.com
OnCabaret
Contract software engineer; social app for a NYC startup with 2,000 users (2025)
oncabaret.com
Web Surfing Studios
Software engineer intern; built full-stack web applications (2024)
websurfingstudios.com
WSO (Williams Students Online)
Front-end developer and tester (2024)
wso.williams.edu
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