Thalarian Labs
I build data tools as a solo developer in Vancouver — starting with the 8,000 Statistics Canada tables that exist but stay buried. By day I work on benefits intelligence; the through-line is the same: turn jurisdiction-specific data into something people can actually use.
Now
Building a search-first interface to Statistics Canada's long tail. Tinkering with a self-hosted agent stack. Recently became a dad — so shipping happens between naps.
Selected work
A search-first interface to the long tail of Statistics Canada — the ~8,000 tables that exist but never surface. Find the right dataset by what you actually want to know, see it rendered, and pull it without fighting the API.
An AI agent I run for myself, wired into my own health data, chat, and a configurable tool policy. A sandbox for figuring out what a genuinely useful personal agent looks like.
The whole Thalarian Labs stack runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet: Docker Compose, Caddy, a polyrepo setup. Cheap, reproducible, and boring in the best way. Writeup coming.
About
I'm Boris Tsao, a developer in Vancouver who likes building things that are small, careful, and useful — usually where structured data meets a real domain. Thalarian Labs is where I do that in the open. I work in benefits and data systems professionally; here I follow the same instinct toward public data, clean tooling, and infrastructure I can fully understand and own.
Mostly TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and a self-hosted Linux box.
Contact
Always up for a conversation about data tooling, agents, or infra.