Founder & Principal Engineer at Distributed Systems Labs. New York.
Thirty years close to the machine. C, Assembly, and C++, and now primarily Rust. The focus is systems where correctness is not negotiable: privacy protocols, onion routing, blockchain infrastructure, high-frequency trading, and settlement rails for regulated institutions.
- Ferrous — Layer 1 blockchain, written in Rust.
- Settrum — wholesale settlement layer for regulated institutions.
- Bytus — crypto-to-fiat settlement.
- Axiom — commercial notarization and audit infrastructure.
- Spreadara — high-frequency market making.
- Darkrouter — onion routing.
- Genuflow — luxury goods authentication.
Latency, determinism, and failure modes. Protocol design where the threat model is real. The unglamorous parts of distributed systems, settlement finality, consensus under partition, the difference between "passed the tests" and "correct."