Tyrin‑Ian Todd

Entrepreneurial AI engineer: Tyrin blends ML/agent research with product and platform work. He founded Modaic (a platform for packaging and evaluating AI agents) and previously co‑founded Dyle, demonstrating a pattern of building agentic/AI‑first startups and developer tooling. tyrin+2

Hands‑on maker and systems builder: his public project catalogue (student apps, Arduino/robot projects, mobile games, and small automation hacks) shows sustained interest in embedded systems, robotics, and product prototyping—skills he applies to firmware internships and agent tooling. dajayi+1

Early research and mentorship background: as a Penn State EnvironMentors participant and later an undergraduate research assistant at MIT ESSG, Tyrin has experience turning student research into competitive projects (e.g., the award‑winning low‑cost sensor network) and contributing to ML/mapping research at MIT. psu+1