Profile
Network and embedded systems engineer who builds complete systems from first principles. Transport: full UDP/TCP P2P stack with per-chunk cryptographic integrity, blast-mode reliability, and session logic fully decoupled from transport. Arithmetic: novel two's-complement floating-point (Spirix) — 48% smaller than equivalent HardFloat, silicon-verified on ECP5. Identity: passless cryptographic stack with post-quantum key exchange and social key recovery. Spectral: device integration across medical imaging, cinema cameras, machine vision and general photonics. Five patents, two awarded. 21 years of RF field work across 46 states. Software written by someone who knows what a wire actually does.
Core Projects
Spirix — Two's Compliment Floating Point Arithmetic System
Novel runtime-selectable precision ALU · ~48% smaller than HardFloat · Silicon-verified
- Two's complement fraction and exponent, continuous number line thru Zero
- Escaped values preserve sign and orientation beyond representable range — values don't collapse to ±∞ or NaN, they become Exploded/Vanished and continue participating in absolute operations
- Many distinct undefined states track error origin — zero-divide-by-zero, 0×∞, and others are distinguishable, not collapsed into a single opaque NaN
- One datapath, infinite precision combinations
- Wins silicon Fmax on every tested operation vs HardFloat and FPnew; Smaller LUT and DSP count than HardFloat on every operation; GPU division 2.24× faster than native f32 via Newton-Raphson instruction-level parallelism
VSF / TOKEN / CLUTCH
Cryptographic infrastructure stack — runs under everything else
- VSF: content-addressed binary serialization, unambiguously typed, compact wire format
- TOKEN: passless cryptographic identity — social key recovery, no central authority
- CLUTCH: twelve layer post-quantum key exchange
Photon — P2P Messenger
No servers · No passwords · No phone numbers · A=1 authentication · Social key recovery
- A=1: authenticate once via social attestation (two humans vouch in person) — all subsequent access uses cryptographic proofs derived from that single event, never credentials again
- Rolling-chain encryption: 256-link BLAKE3 chains, ACK-gated advancement — message deletion and editing are cryptographically detectable; first messenger where tampering is provably visible
- Transport-agnostic P2P stack — UDP primary, TCP fallback, USB, BT/BLE/mesh; session-layer fully decoupled from transport; blast mode + FIN/retry, binary backoff (1/256s), no per-packet ACK
- FGTW DHT: Kademlia-based peer discovery, handle → peer resolution; no ICANN, no CAs, no central authority; direct P2P paths 3–6× lower latency than server-relayed messaging
ferros — Capability-Based Mobile OS
Full OS in Rust · Fairphone 5 (ARM64) · bare metal thruout · killswitch-ready
- Ring memory replaces page tables — two's complement wraparound, 2-instruction bounds check, no TLB, no MMU page walks; continuous per-process offset rotation makes ROP impossible by construction
- Structural elimination, not mitigation — fork, signals, setuid, VFS, OOM killer, ~340 of Linux's ~350 syscalls: these do not exist in the architecture, they are not sandboxed or patched around
- Five kernel responsibilities only: memory (rings + grants), scheduling, capability-gated IPC, boot (vault root scan), interrupt routing to userspace — every driver is a restartable userspace process
- Killswitch-ready by construction: hardware power cutoff with no software in the loop, any ring state valid, no fsck — vault root ring restores last committed state in 16 reads (O(log₂ 65536), BLAKE3-chained)
- Bare-metal bring-up verified: DWC3 USB controller, SD 4-bit block I/O, hot-reload of 72KB kernel binary over Photon Transport in under 1s — no fastboot
Panaluxe DVT
Awarded US 12,031,880 · Jul 2024 · co-inventor
- Duplex fiber polarity and loss diagnosis without equipment at the far end — one technician, no loopback, no coordination
- 605nm / 515nm matched-luminosity LEDs — passes colourblind-safe by design, not as an afterthought
- Direct application to telecom fiber verification: SFP link qualification, duplex A/B polarity, multi-run identification
Experience
Network & Embedded Systems
Photon / ferros / Spirix 2020 – Present
- P2P transport from spec thru production Rust; capability OS with bare-metal USB and cryptographic identity
Spectral Imaging / Device Integration
VERICHROME / LargeSense / Varian / SHOTOVER 2008 – Present
- Cross-platform device integration; patent US 11,893,758 B2; three Wikipedia lead images
RF Field Engineer
All Major US Carriers 2004 – 2025
- 21+ years RF infrastructure, 46 states, 1,000+ tower ascents — full signal path fiber to antenna
Machine Vision Technician & Software Developer
Plum Creek Wood Products 2002 – 2004
- C++ real-time defect classification for production lumber grading