Neil Lu

About

I build engineering environments for a world where AI agents write most of the code.

I'm the creator of Navide (Never IDE) — an open-source, AI-native engineering environment that runs Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI simultaneously, orchestrated across an SDLC pipeline with automated handoffs and multi-agent coordination.

The idea came from a problem I kept hitting myself. Once you're running several coding agents in parallel, the bottleneck stops being code and becomes context — close a terminal, lose the session, and the agent forgets everything about your project. Traditional IDEs bolt a chat panel onto a human-first workflow. I think the tooling needs to be designed for agents from the ground up, with humans holding the engineering decisions.

As Founder & Lead Architect at NT IT (NerdTechnic), I've spent the last five years shipping production systems — platforms, internal tooling, and custom enterprise software — which is where most of my opinions about agent orchestration come from. Real systems, real constraints.

What I work on:

On the side, I'm building TripPro — a social sharing product for English-speaking travelers in Asia — and writing about the engineering behind it here.

Building Navide in the open. If you're working on AI coding agents or developer tools, I'd like to hear from you.

Experience

Education

National Taichung University of Education — Bachelor's degree, 2013 – 2017

Skills

AI Agents · Multi-agent Systems · Software Architecture · Large Language Models (LLM) · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Developer Tools · Open Source Software · System Design · Distributed Systems · Application Security · Node.js · TypeScript · Technical Leadership

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