Hunter Bown is the founder of ShannonTek and the creator of Codewhale (formerly DeepSeek-TUI), an open-source AI coding agent written in Rust. A musician and former high school band director, he came to software and AI through a broader interest in how people learn, create, and turn ideas into reality. His work brings together model-agnostic agent systems, open-source collaboration, and tools that make advanced capabilities accessible beyond specialist teams. Based in San Francisco, he is building toward a simple goal: helping more people turn what they know, notice, and imagine into things they can do.