about me
I am interested in the long arc of technology: whether we can use it to extend healthy human life, preserve individual agency, and build systems that give people more room to think, act, and choose. That is the thread behind a lot of my work, even when the immediate task is a backend migration, a protocol library, or an internal tool.
I like foundational problems. Cryptography, distributed systems, authentication, identity, data pipelines, and resilient infrastructure all appeal to me because they sit close to the boundary between abstract correctness and real consequences. A small mistake can become a security issue, a reliability problem, or a bad user experience, so the work rewards care.
Most of my professional work has been in backend systems, fintech, analytics, and security. Outside work, I have spent years implementing low-level protocols in Elixir from first principles, including Noise, Nostr, Gemini, Reticulum, and native cryptography bindings. That open-source work is partly technical practice and partly curiosity: I want to understand how important systems are actually put together.
I tend to admire people who take ideas seriously enough to test them, build with them, and accept the responsibility that follows. I am drawn to ambitious technical work, but I care just as much about independence, clarity, and intellectual honesty.