Dynasty Central
An AI-powered companion for dynasty mode in EA Sports College Football. It turns screenshots into a lasting record of the program you are building.
Stephen Witkowski
I build AI systems for a living and data products for gamers on the side. Staff AI/ML engineer at 66degrees and founder of Practice Mode Labs. Based in Charlotte, NC.
Building
Practice Mode Labs
A studio making data products for committed players. It turns hard-to-export game screens and footage into records players can review and keep. Home of Dynasty Central and ApexLens (apexlens.gg, private beta).
Crusader-Bench
A benchmark where coding agents play Stronghold Crusader by writing Python against a game SDK. Five scored tasks: economy, crisis recovery, tax, siege defense and a skirmish against a CPU lord.
Independent consulting
Custom AI systems and applications for mid-market companies, plus hands-on help adopting AI in daily work. Working software, not strategy decks.
Open source
- ancestry-cli: Read and edit an Ancestry.com family tree from the command line, with undoable writes. Built for people and AI agents.
- ynab-mcp: An MCP server that lets AI assistants query and update YNAB budgets.
- grocery-spend-lab: Analyze itemized grocery receipts locally.
- chatgpt-conversation-knowledge-exporter: Turn a ChatGPT export into structured facts, decisions and docs.
- genealogy-agent: An evidence-first genealogy research tool that starts from GEDCOM files. Early alpha.
Work
- 2023 – now
Staff AI/ML Engineer, 66degrees
Tech lead on $1M+ AI engagements. Built a financial-document system that saves $6K+ per legal abstract and a multimodal marketing-asset pipeline with a 94% efficiency gain.
- 2021 – 2023
Senior ML Engineer, Daily Harvest
Built a GPT-4 pipeline that surfaced 2,500+ new product concepts, LLM triage for customer care, and a retrieval-based product discovery chatbot.
- 2018 – 2021
Data Scientist → Senior Data Scientist, Electronic Arts
Built Smart Reply, a transformer assistant for player-support agents, and analyzed 70M+ gameplay sessions.
- 2017 – 2018
Data Scientist, Management Concepts
Elsewhere
MS in Marketing Analytics from the University of Maryland; BS in Economics and Political Science from Mount St. Mary's. Off the keyboard: jiu-jitsu and a retired racing greyhound.