This is my personal website, a place where I explore ideas on what it means to be a person trying to make the world a better place. I miss the old days of the internet when personal websites were more of a thing.
Stackshine drastically improves how companies manage their software. Our platform re-imagines software management operations by combining access, usage, and pricing analytics with a powerful automation engine. We were part of YC's class of W22 and raised a seed round from top-tier investors. Stackshine was acquired in 2023 by a FinTech company based in Atlanta, FinQuery.
Co-founded by eight-time Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt, BOLT Mobility aimed to transform the way people move and experience their communities. Through partnerships with municipalities and local ownership, Bolt worked to improve infrastructure while thoughtfully integrating sustainable and accessible transportation options. I was hired as CTO to address key technical challenges of building a fleet of mobile IOT devices.
Stara's mission is to provide space infrastructure as a service by launching an affordable solution for data backhaul in low earth orbit. We've launched two satellites in orbit and have begun development on the most advanced radio designed for space-to-space mesh networking. We built an incredibly talented team comprised of former SpaceX, Spire, Y-Combinator, and Hyperloop One veterans.
As founder and CEO, I managed a 7 figure budget, hired the core team, designed our own spacecraft in-house, and directed the NOOR-1 mission which deployed 2 satellites with Rocket Lab.
The goal of Rivetz was to assert within blockchain transactions that "this device, in this condition, following these rules, made this transaction". Rivetz offered a convenient interface for developers who want to secure their applications using a Trusted Execution Environment or Secure Enclave chip.
Responsibilities: System design, NIST-compliant infrastructure setup, implementing key management service, integration with phone providers.
Strikingly is a website builder that allows people to build portfolios, blogs, ecommerce websites, and personal websites easily without ever writing code. Because Strikingly powers millions of websites across the world, every problem it solves has to be systematized to scale.
The goal of EOS is to be the most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications. EOS Asia proposed and was accepted to act as core block producer for EOS. My responsibilities were offering mentorship to the community, writing tutorials, smart-contract development, and solving technical/infrastructure challenges.
NomadPass is a platform that allows digital nomads to find high quality locations and meet fellow traveling professionals. My role was as lead developer, helping stakeholders prioritize against technical realities, mentoring developers, and building the product from scratch.
Braingate allows tetraplegic patients to control computers and robotic arms with their thoughts. My responsibility was working with the team to design an electronic/software architecture that allowed components to communicate in a way that's resilient, simple to program new experiments on, facilitates diagnostics, and allows the patient to be mobile.
Countr is an online marketplace where people shop, accrue a score for buying and sharing, and use that score to get discounts. Built as a single page application using React, Redux, Webpack, Mocha, and jsverify.
Teespring is a platform where you can easily create and sell custom apparel. During my time there, the platform made $750,000/month with millions of orders to source, print, and fulfill. My responsibility was identifying critical internal issues and building tools to optimize processes.
The Firehose project is a paid educational program that helps students go from beginner to employable developers. Students would come with questions about technical details, career advice, and architectural trade-offs. Responsibilities: Mentoring students, code reviewing, curriculum planning.