Overview
Full-stack engineer & founder who builds secure, scalable crypto systems and integrates AI into production applications.
Career Highlights
- Founded Yours Inc. in San Francisco, raised $1.5M, led 10 people as a technical CEO. Built social network with crypto payments & Wallet-as-a-Service. Acquired by Fabriik.
- Creator and core contributor to Bitcore, the first complete open-source JavaScript Bitcoin library (4.9k stars, 2.1k forks, 500+ dependents on GitHub).
- Co-inventor of two patents in US/UK (Paymail 2019, Token Reissuance 2020).
- Processed over $100M in peer-to-peer crypto transactions without security incidents at Yours Inc.
- Scaled EarthBucks to 1k QPS on PlanetScale MySQL, 8 web servers.
Technical Accomplishments
- Implemented production-grade cryptography used by 500+ projects: ECDSA signatures, AES/CBC encryption, HMAC, BLAKE3 hashing in Rust/TypeScript/WGSL.
- Designed first-of-its-kind WebGPU blockchain miner in browser (BLAKE3+matmul in WGSL).
- Integrated AI APIs to power Hallucipedia (web app) & Chatvim (dev tool).
- Built custom ML tools: GPU-accelerated tensors in Rust/Nushell (Nutorch & Termplot).
- Open-source ML with PyTorch: Created hundreds of ML demos for Artintellica.
Work Experience
Software architect, full-stack software engineer, and solopreneur building blockchain systems and AI tools with TypeScript, Rust, and Python. Consultant for startup companies.
Raised $1.5M, built social network with crypto payments & Wallet-as-a-Service, led up to 10 people, grew from nothing to 30,000+ users. Acquired. Migrated infrastructure to Kubernetes. Launched token system. Filed paymail & reissuance patents.
Built full-stack Bitcoin payment solutions and cryptocurrency wallets. Implemented cryptographic algorithms in JavaScript including ECDSA. Contributed to popular open-source Bitcore library (BitPay), and created Fullnode (Reddit).
Experimental high-energy astrophysics research. Built data analysis and simulation tools in C, C++, and Python. Researched high-performance computing and heterogeneous computing architectures. Led telescope observations as czar. Fixed telescope device drivers in C.
Built full-stack LAMP applications (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for small businesses in Missouri including ecommerce platforms, restaurant websites, forums, and early social networks.