Where I've worked.
A cross-section of founder work, protocol engineering, security research, and forward-deployed product delivery across startups, independent work, and research.
Independent
Software Engineer
Dec 2025 - PresentApplied AI & Real-Time Data Systems• Architected and developed "Specta", a real-time sports intelligence platform spanning live data ingestion, backend services, analytics pipelines, and user-facing product systems.• Designed and operated high-throughput data pipelines that ingest, validate, and serve live data from major sports APIs and prediction markets, powering real-time analytics across the NBA, NCAA, MLB, and EPL.• Drove end-to-end system architecture and implementation across backend services, data modeling, and deployment, executing new features from concept through production.Applied AI & Payment Systems• Architected and developed "Dossier," a high-performance Research-as-a-Service API built with TypeScript, Bun, and Hono to generate cited, verifiable intelligence.• Leveraged the Google Gemini 3.1 Pro model with search tools (Google Search and URL Context) to enable clients (e.g. AI agents) to programmatically execute and consume complex web research workflows.• Integrated the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) for coordinating USDC payments in exchange for Dossier API usage.Autonomous Systems• Set up a simulated drone flight environment using PX4 SITL, QGroundControl, and jMAVSim.• Built a Python-based controller for local drone simulation, including command transmission and telemetry handling over MAVLink.
Ritual Foundation
Ecosystem Engineer
Apr 2025 - Oct 2025• Built end-to-end TypeScript and Python prototype applications demonstrating practical uses of confidential computing and verifiable AI primitives offered by the Ritual blockchain.• Developed a provably private price-prediction application and designed its novel trusted execution environment (TEE) ephemeral key recovery mechanism using ECIES encryption, time-lock puzzles, and smart contract storage.• Authored technical specs, built reference application implementations, and partnered directly with external teams to architect and develop full-stack applications.
Independent
Software Engineer
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025• Identified and helped remediate a critical vulnerability in a financial protocol securing over $1B+ in assets, resulting in a $100,000 bug bounty.• Designed and deployed audited financial applications, brrETH and minerETH, for programmatically compounding and routing underlying asset yield in a novel manner.• Built and open-sourced WERC721, an ERC-721 wrapper protocol that reduced transfer fees by up to ~90% through batching and low-level optimization.
Dinero DAO
Founding Software Engineer, Smart Contract Lead
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023• Led smart contract architecture and development across security-sensitive financial protocols, third-party integrations, incentive design, and systems security.• Created Pirex, Dinero's flagship yield-tokenization protocol, designing the zero-to-one smart contract system that later supported $200M+ in assets and institutional adoption.• Built Hidden Hand V1, a protocol for permissionless incentivization of governance actions across distributed financial ecosystems, scaling to roughly $5M in peak user assets.• Directed public and private protocol audits, acting as the lead technical liaison for security firms and researchers and authoring the majority of remediation code.• Represented the organization as the lead technical voice on podcasts and community calls, communicating complex onchain product strategies to the broader ecosystem.
Conclave, Inc.
Founder & Software Engineer
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021• Developed a Go-based backend for a passwordless social application and Celoist, an autonomous governance vote delegation protocol selected as a top-18 finalist in Celo Camp, an accelerator.• Operated and maintained validator infrastructure for the Celo and Cosmos blockchains, with a focus on uptime, resilience, and operational security.• Co-developed a Celo blockchain improvement proposal (CIP-10) which included an early proof-of-concept for facilitating smart contract-based signing on behalf of user accounts.
dlab.vc
Research Fellow
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019• Researched developer blockchain tooling and prototyped a blockchain node SaaS product intended to reduce the operational burden of building on emerging blockchain networks.• Open-sourced research project code, and authored a three-part blog series on node infrastructure bottlenecks and tooling needs for blockchain developers.
Backbone Labs, Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Jun 2015 - Jan 2018• Founded a venture-backed hardware/software startup focused on posture correction and co-led product development from prototype through manufacturing readiness.• Co-led a team of 5 towards the development and productization of an IoT wearable device and companion Android and iOS application for real-time posture analysis.• Generated $467K in Kickstarter pre-orders, joined the HAX accelerator, and collaborated with the University of California, San Francisco on a posture awareness and education program.
