Systems engineer · founder · internet freedom
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. In the past year, four shipped Claude-powered products — developer tooling, document intelligence, consumer health, and production agentic CI — including a systems product coded end-to-end by Claude itself.
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. Coded end-to-end by Claude under my architectural direction — agent-driven development of a real systems product.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free AI clinical companion for families of children with PANS/PANDAS. Conversational intake, an offline-capable daily symptom tracker, and correlation analysis across the full longitudinal record — private by default, opt-in de-identified cohort learning, one-click deletion.
MCP servers exposing a structured corpus of censorship-circumvention research and a queryable protocol taxonomy, driving agentic protocol design and analysis.
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.
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.
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.