# Sandon Lai

> Sandon Lai is an AI and software engineer in Melbourne, building tools for legal professionals and writing about software, AI and language learning.

This is Sandon’s personal website. Posts describe his own projects, experiences and interests.

## Pages

- [About Sandon](https://www.sandonl.dev/): Background, current work and interests.
- [Projects](https://www.sandonl.dev/projects): Eve Korean Tutor, Quarry and ROVE.
- [Posts](https://www.sandonl.dev/posts): All published writing.

## Posts

- [Building a Personal Language Tutor](https://www.sandonl.dev/posts/building-a-personal-language-tutor): Building a Korean tutor (agent) that adjusts according to my level, finds useful expressions, remembers what I’m learning, and helps me practise.
- [Effect.ts for high-throughput AI document review](https://www.sandonl.dev/posts/how-we-used-effect-ts-to-review-1000s-of-agreements): A practical look at building a concurrent, rate-limited AI pipeline in TypeScript with Effect, covering dependency injection, typed errors, semaphores, and observability at scale.
- [Fluency Illusion in SLA](https://www.sandonl.dev/posts/fluency-illusion-in-sla): Understanding the fluency illusion in second language acquisition

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/sandonl): Public source code.
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/sandonlai): Professional profile.