Chronology
A path built in public
Not every project succeeded. Every period taught me something that became part of the next one.
Foundations
Born and raised in Southern Oregon with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. Orientation and mobility training, a community-funded BrailleNote, and years with vision teacher Craig made technology and independence part of daily life.
China
Spent a month in China with my mom and grandma for an experimental stem-cell treatment after family and community fundraising.
Learning by building
Made early Java games—including FlatForm, FireWars, and ADIKSHIN—and learned that a working experiment teaches more than waiting for perfect knowledge.
Element Communications
Built a privacy-oriented social-network prototype using public-key cryptography and ring signatures as my North Medford High School senior project.
Unite.cash
Explored censorship-resistant publishing, private communication, creator markets, Bitcoin Cash, and IPFS.
Gateway.cash
Founded an open-source Bitcoin Cash payment processor and began pursuing a standard internet payment layer for merchants and applications.
Rubix CTO
Led a technical team of roughly four to five people building non-custodial mobile and desktop wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and BSV. Together, we built ambitious software, and the experience taught me lasting lessons about leadership and complex delivery.
Project Babbage
Formed Peer-to-peer Privacy Systems Research LLC, the company behind Project Babbage. What began with me grew into a team of friends and collaborators.
Standards and infrastructure
Contributed to wallet, key-derivation, authenticated-payment, transaction-envelope, overlay, and application standards—including the unified BRC-100 wallet-to-application interface.
Teaching and public work
Led code-alongs, conference presentations, mentoring, hackathon programs, and developer education around user-owned application architecture.
Web standardization
Founded a W3C community group to explore why browsers, phones, and computers need interoperable ways to work with user-owned blockchain capabilities.
Gateway revived
Revived Gateway for the BRC-100 ecosystem: the same goal of simple internet payments, rebuilt around BSV, lawful commerce, wallet permissions, and a more mature view of digital property.