Founder & Principal Engineer at Distributed Systems Labs. New York.
I have spent 30+ years close to the machine — C, Assembly, and C++ — and now work primarily in Rust. My 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, C++17.
- 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."