Systems engineer · founder · internet freedom

Adam Fisk

Twenty-five years building peer-to-peer and censorship-circumvention networks used by tens of millions of people in adversarial environments — LimeWire, LittleShoot, and Lantern. Now deeply focused on AI-native engineering: MCP servers, agentic CI pipelines, and developer tooling built on Claude.

Open Source & Independent Work

Wick

creator & maintainer · rust

Browser-grade web access for AI agents: Chrome-network-stack and full-CEF fetching with browser-accurate TLS fingerprinting, stealth patches, automatic CAPTCHA handling, clean-markdown extraction, and a built-in MCP server. Ships via Homebrew and npm.

Lantern

creator · 15,000+ stars · go / rust / flutter

Open-source VPN and circumvention system deployed worldwide, concentrated in the most heavily censored countries. Personally architected and wrote core protocol and infrastructure code across the stack.

Claude Code skills plugin

author · production agentic ci

Agentic automation in production: support tickets auto-diagnosed against client logs and server telemetry, deduplicated into GitHub issues, and — where tractable — fixed by an agent that writes the patch and opens a PR. Incident triage wired into Slack and observability.

unredact.org

creator · 1.4m files · 3.5m pages

Public-records search engine over the DOJ's Epstein case releases — ~370GB across 12 data sets, fully OCR'd, audio/video transcribed, entities extracted into a cross-referenced relationship graph, with a natural-language agent that answers questions across the archive with citations.

whowrotebitcoin.com

creator · code stylometry

Code-stylometry investigation of Bitcoin's authorship: 12-trait analysis of the Bitcoin v0.1 codebase against candidate authors' open-source work — a structured counter-analysis to the New York Times' 2026 Satoshi investigation, with an extended Bayesian model reconciling prose and code evidence.

CampaignOS

creator · typescript · agpl/apache

Open-source, AI-native platform for political campaigns — policy, volunteers, ballot access, and compliance on one spine. Offline record-linkage engine verifies signature validity at the doorstep; AI copilots draft only from approved, cited sources with mandatory human approval and an append-only audit log.

Circumvention research tooling

author · mcp servers

MCP servers exposing a structured corpus of censorship-circumvention research and a queryable protocol taxonomy, driving agentic protocol design and analysis.

Experience

2010 — nowLantern

Brave New Software Project

Founder, President & Lead Architect

Founded and lead the organization behind Lantern, one of the most widely used censorship-circumvention tools in the world. Funded by U.S. State Department internet-freedom grants and Google collaboration.

Protocol design under an adversarial arms race. Designed and shipped transports that survive nation-state DPI and active probing: domain fronting at CDN scale, pluggable WASM transports on the WATER runtime, sing-box integration, and Lantern's Reflex protocol. Iterated against live blocking events — detect, analyze censor behavior, redesign, redeploy to millions of clients.
Distributed infrastructure. Built and operate the server side: multi-armed-bandit proxy assignment that learns per-country, per-ASN which transports survive; a global egress fleet; full-stack OpenTelemetry observability over client and server telemetry.
Client systems. Core contributor to the Go proxy core shipping on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux; led the v9 client re-architecture.
AI-native engineering org. Rebuilt engineering operations around Claude: agentic support triage, automated incident response, auto-generated fix PRs, and release/crash analysis pipelines across Freshdesk, Play Console, SigNoz, and GitHub.

2004 — 2010LittleShoot

LittleShoot

Co-Founder, President & Lead Architect

Designed and wrote the open-source "P2P browser plugin": the first BitTorrent browser integration, with multi-source downloading, SIP/STUN/TURN-based NAT and firewall traversal, and video streaming. Licensed as a reusable P2P library with an HTTP API.

2000 — 2004LimeWire

LimeWire

Lead Engineer

Led engineering on the most widely used P2P application ever shipped. Wrote the search specifications adopted across major Gnutella implementations — network topology optimization, new message types, distributed query algorithms. Pioneered the HTTP-extension "download mesh" for swarming multi-source downloads, standardized at LimeWire years before BitTorrent existed.